GO FAIRTRADE WITH FRIENDS & ESSENTIAL

Fairtrade and organic food at competitive prices ARE manageable – especially if you link up with friends and neighbours and Essential Trading.  The British co-operative business sells thousands of wholefoods foods from pulses to peanut butter, cereals to soups, chocolate spread to sprouting seed mix… the range is diverse.

You’ll find a wide range of leading vegetarian, vegan, organic and fairtrade brands plus its own Essential brand of larder staples such as tahini, vegan pesto, quinoa, chocolate spreads, nuts, soups, fruit mixes and biodynamic herbal teas to name a few.  Speciality ingredients to suit dairy free and gluten free diets are also available plus some delightfully unusual and tasty treats from around the world to liven up your home baking and family menus.

BUY IN BULK

Fairtrade food is undoubtedly the future for fair pay, ethical trading and welfare for farmers, villages and communities around the world.  If you buy Fairtrade you are certainly helping many people to a better standard of living.  Now Essential’s ‘friends and families’ plan allows groups of friends and neighbours to club together to buy in bulk to enjoy top quality food at very reasonable prices.  All you need is a group of at least four individuals and one single delivery address and Essential will let you buy direct in bulk which, when divided, brings fairtrade food prices down, often to less than non-fairtrade, high street prices.

GETTING STARTED

You need just a £250* minimum order (that’s only £62.50 each if your group comprises the minimum of four households).  Simply nominate one of your group to place and receive the orders and you’re ready to buy top quality, vegetarian, vegan, organic and fairtrade food.  
 
“Many people support the fairtrade concept in principle but fail to follow through by buying fairtrade food,” says Eli Sarre, marketing director for Essential Trading. “While more and more retailers are stocking fairtrade options for certain foods, it’s by no means a comprehensive choice everywhere and prices can put people off,” she accepts.  “With our friends and neighbours scheme, people can club together to place bulk orders and enjoy fairtrade food at very fair prices.”

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*throughout our normal delivery areas

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FEATURED PRODUCT INFORMATION

Ethical, essential foods are literally at your fingertips and just a few clicks away at www.ethicallyessential.coop.

This online shop features a wide range of ethical foods from store cupboard essentials (such as cereals, pulses, seeds and fairtrade chocolate spread) to more exotic and unusual fare (such as Fairtrade red quinoa, biodynamic Egyptian herbal teas, wild-gathered dried mushrooms and Fairtrade herbs and spices).  There are plenty of recipes on the site to inspire you to use these ingredients – including a series developed especially for Essential by renowned vegetarian chef Rose Elliot.
 
Ethical shopping made easy

Increasingly people are seeking foods that are ethical – not just organic, vegetarian and vegan.  www.ethicallyessential.coop makes it easy for you to make a sustainable choice by offering an ethical shopping basket at the push of a button.  Shop here with confidence, knowing that every single product has proven provenance and is ethically and/or fairly traded.  

Wide choice

The wide range of goods is sourced from fairtrade producers, farming communities and co-operatives across the world.  They are brought to the UK by Essential Trading, a long-established worker co-operative based in Bristol that specialises in working alongside ethical producers and suppliers, adhering to its own principled ethos.

Reduce your food footprint

Buying ethical food will help you to offset your ‘food footprint’ as each purchase ‘gives back’ to the communities who produce these goods and the land that they farm.  Essential has a number of wonderful success stories whereby its sourcing of ingredients has established communities, supported development programmes in villages and secured livelihoods for many.   Learn more about the producers and their stories at www.ethicallyessential.coop and see how purchases from the site can benefit communities across the world.  

FIND ETHICAL FOOD AT YOUR FINGERTIPS AT www.ethicallyessential.coop