About Divine

" To Christian Aid, Divine was a really exciting and enterprising example of how trade could be different and bring more equitable benefits to the developing world – and we gave the new company our support to get it off the ground. Today – at ten years old – Divine has surpassed expectations and proved a beacon to all those working and praying for a better world. Happy Birthday Divine!"

 

Daleep Mukarji, Director, Christian Aid

Link Categories

 

Divine Chocolate Ltd partner organisations
Stockists of Divine chocolate
Fairtrade umbrella organisations
Fairtrade companies
Ethical shopping sites and portals
Trade Justice Movement + Make Poverty History campaign
Organisations promoting fairer trade
Faith organisations supporting Fairtrade
Development education websites
Industry Associations
Ghana websites


Divine Chocolate Ltd partner organisations

Divine Chocolate Ltd (formerly The Day Chocolate Company) is a unique partnership between small-scale cocoa farmers in Ghana and organisations in the UK that support fair trade.

Divine Chocolate Ltd also produces Dubble Fairtrade chocolate, the funky bar for kids with Added Comic Relief. Dubble website

Kuapa Kokoo is a co-operative of over 45,000 small-scale cocoa farmers in Ghana, West Africa who own almost a half of Divine Chocolate Ltd and produce the beans for Divine and Dubble. Kuapa Kokoo website

Twin Trading is a major shareholder and founder of Divine Chocolate Ltd.
3rd Floor, 1 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3JX
Tel: 020 7375 1221

Twin Trading website

The Body Shop International Plc was originally a shareholder in Divine Chocolate Ltd, Watersmead, Littlehampton, West Sussex BN17 6LS
The Body Shop website

Christian Aid is one of the founding partners of Divine Chocolate Ltd. Christian Aid works in over 60 countries helping people, regardless of religion or race, to improve their own lives and tackle the causes of poverty and injustice.
35 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London SE1 7RL
Tel: 020 7620 4444
Christian Aid website

Global Gang website

Comic Relief exists to tackle poverty and promote social justice by helping disadvantaged people across the UK and Africa to realise their aspirations and potential. Dubble (the Fairtrade chocolate bar for kids) was launched in October 2000 as a result of a partnership between Divine Chocolate Ltd and Comic Relief.
5th Floor, 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP
Tel: 020 7820 5555
Comic Relief website

The Department for International Development  (DFID) guaranteed a business loan when the company was set up
DFID website

The Co-operative Group is the leading supermarket in terms of their range of Fairtrade products. Divine Chocolate Ltd supplies Co-op with Kuapa Kokoo's cocoa for their range of Fairtrade chocolate bars.
PO Box 53, New Century House Manchester M60 4ES
Tel: 0161 834 1212

Co-op website


Trading Visions is the charity set up by Divine Chocolate Ltd to develop and expand the educational and campaigning initiatives to promote Fairtrade particularly amongs young people.
Trading Visions website

Papapaa is the source of the multimedia educational materials developed and designed by Comic Relief and Dubble, and now being further extended by Trading Visions.

Pa pa pa website

Stockists

Link to Stockists
Link to Wholesalers

Buy Divine in the USA
Buy Divine in the Netherlands
Buy Divine in Norway
Buy Divine in Sweden and Finland
Buy Divine in Canada

Fairtrade Umbrella Organisations

Fairtrade Foundation is the UK member of FLO and awards the FAIRTRADE Mark, an independent consumer label that guarantees Fairtrade.
Ibex House, 42 -47 Minories, London EC3N 1DY

Tel: 020 7440 8597
Fairtrade website

Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO) is the worldwide Fairtrade standards setting, certification and monitoring organisation.
Kaiser Friedrich Strasse 13, D - 53113 Bonn, Germany
Tel: +49-228-949230
FLO website

International Federation for Alternative Trade (IFAT) is the global network of Fair Trade Organisations, working to improve the livelihoods and well-being of disadvantaged producers and speaking out for greater justice in world trade
IFAT website

Fairtrade Companies

AgroFair UK supply Fairtrade fresh fruit - bananas, mangoes, pineapples, citrus fruits and soon a whole fruitbowl full - to supermarkets in UK. OKE is their brand of smoothies.
1 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3LT
Tel: 020 7422 0755

Agrofair website


cafédirect is the UK's largest Fairtrade hot drinks company. Cafédirect coffees and Teadirect teas are sold through most of the major supermarkets and served in a rapidly increasing number of cafés, including Costa.
City Cloisters Suite B2,196 Old Street, London EC1V 9FR
Tel: 020 7490 9520
Cafedirect website

 

Liberation is a sister company to Divine and is co-owned by nut farming and gathering groups from Africa, Asia and Latin America. It is the company behind Harry's Nuts!, the Fairtrade nut snacks from comedian Harry Hill and supplies most of the UK's Fairtrade peanuts, cashews and Brazils.
Liberation website

Equal Exchange produce their own range of Fairtrade  teas, coffees, sugar, cocoa, honey and nuts; as well as acting as a major wholesalers for other Fairtrade products, like Divine.
10a Queensferry Street, Edinburgh EH2 4PG
Tel: 0131 131 220 3484
Equal Exchange website

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British Association for Fair Trade Shops (BAFTS) is the network of independent Fair Trade or World Shops across the UK.
Unit 7, 8-13 New Inn Street, London EC2A 3PY
Tel: 020 7739 4197
BAFTS website

BAFTS members with websites: Bishopston Trading Company; Chandni Chowk; The Fair Trade Cafe; Funky Wares; Ganesha; Just Fairtrade Ltd; One Village; One World Shop (Edinburgh / Glasgow); Pachacuti; People Tree Ltd; Shared Earth; Siesta; silverchilli.com; Tumi; The World Shop (NEAD); The World Shop (RISC) Network of European World Shops

World Shops website

Ethical shopping sites & portals

Ethical Superstore sell a wide range of ethical products online including Fair Trade, Organic and Eco Friendly
Ethical Superstore website

Ethical Consumer is an alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names. Provides a magazine and research data for conscientious shoppers.
Unit 21, 41 Old Birtley Street, Manchester M15 5RF
Ethical Consumer website


Ethical Junction- a portal site for ethical organisations and ethical trading; including an on-line ethical shopping centre.
Ethical Junction website


Get Ethical

Green Guides

One World Net is a site dedicated to harnessing the democratic potential of the internet to promote human rights and sustainable development. Good general site for exploring development issues.
One World website

Third World Network
Network of groups producing excellent research and publications on issues affecting the South.
Third World Network website


Eden Project Ltd
The Eden Project is a dramatic global garden, the size of 30 football pitches, based in Cornwall. They sell both Divine and Dubble in their fantastic retail shop!
Bodelva, St Austell, Cornwall PL24 2SG
Eden Project website


Trade Justice Movement

The Trade Justice Movement is a group of organisations who are concerned with the negative impact of international trade rules on the poorest people in the world, on the environment, and on democracy. The TJM calls for fundamental change to the unjust rules and institutions governing international trade, so that trade is made to work for all.
Trade Justice Movement website

Make Poverty History
MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY brings together a wide cross section of nearly 100 charities, campaigns, trade unions, faith groups and celebrities who are united by a common belief that 2005 offers a unprecedented opportunity for global change. 2005 - what we are asking for: Trade Justice. Drop the debt. More and better aid.
Make Poverty History website

Organisations promoting fairer trade

Oxfam is a development, relief and campaigning organisation that works with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering world-wide.  Oxfam shops which sell food items stock the full range of Divine products. Oxfam House, John Smith Drive, Oxford OX4 2JY.
Telephone 0870 333 2444

Oxfam website

Make trade fair website

Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)

Traidcraft a leading organisation in helping poor communities fight their way out of poverty through trade.  Traidcraft sells fairly traded items through their fair trader network and online.
Kingsway, Gateshead NE11 0NE
Tel: 0191 491 0591

Traidcraft website

Traidcraft Shop website


Tourism Concern


Action Aid


Anti-Slavery International


Banana Link campaigns for sustainable production and trade in bananas on behalf of the small scale producers and plantation workers.
Banana Link website

Farmers World Network (FWn) unites farmers and rural communities worldwide.  FWn carries out development education work on world agricultural production, distribution and trade.
Farmer's World Network website


Labour Behind the Label campaigns for workers' rights in the global garment industry

Labour Behind the Label website

New Economics Foundation works to construct a new economy centred on people and the environment.
New Economics Foundation website
 
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality
New Internationalist website

People and Planet UK student action and campaigning on world poverty, human rights and the environment.
People and Planet website

Red Pepper is a radical left-wing independent magazine with political and social debate.
Red Pepper website

War on Want campaigns against world poverty working in partnership and solidarity with people across the globe.

War on Want website
 
World Development Movement campaigns to tackle the root causes of poverty.
World Development Movement website

Faith organisations supporting Fairtrade


CAFOD
Christian Aid
Church Mission Society
Church of Scotland Churches
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
Quaker Peace and Service
SCIAF (Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund)
Speak
Tearfund
Tzedek
World Jewish Relief
United Reformed Church
Y-care International

Development Education websites

Pa pa pa
Christian Aid
Development Education Association
Link Community Development
Save the Children

Industry Associations

International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO)
Federation of Cocoa Commerce (FCC)

...and everything you ever wanted to know about Ghana
 
Ghana High Commission
ghanaclassifieds.com
ghana.gov.gh
africanet.com