Rainbow Turtle Rebooted Fair Trade Podcast

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Rainbow Turtle Rebooted Fair Trade Podcast Podcast

Welcome to the Rainbow Turtle Rebooted podcast. We intend to bring you interviews and information about fair trade and the work that Rainbow Turtle does.

  1. Series 3 Episode 4 - Meet the volunteers 2

    2 DAYS AGO

    Series 3 Episode 4 - Meet the volunteers 2

    Send us a textIn this episode we introduce you to Joyce Jackson who started out as a fair trade stall holder in her local church before being inveigled into volunteering at the shop by Liz Cotton when she retired 7 or 8 years ago.Following Joyce we have Clotilde Raydon, who 6 years ago came into the shop to get some refills for cleaning products. After a couple of visits, Liz Cotton, the then manager and director of the shop, invited Clotilde to become a volunteer. Finally, we hear from ...

    9 min
  2. Juliet Robb interview

    5 DAYS AGO

    Juliet Robb interview

    Send us a textIn this episode we meet Juliet Robb of Olive Tree, a charity that buys products from crafts people in Palestine and then sells them in Scotland. The money provides the artisans with a living and any profits made from the sales goes to support charities in Palestine.Juliet first thought about working with people from Palestine after a trip to the Holy Land. At the end of the trip, the minister said to her, "so what are you now going to do!" She now has a successful organisation t...

    36 min
  3. Series 3 Episode 2 - Meet the volunteers 1

    12 SEPT

    Series 3 Episode 2 - Meet the volunteers 1

    Send us a textIn this mini episode, we meet long standing Rainbow Turtle volunteers: Gillian Henry, Roisin Mulholland and Maureen Brough. In it they share why fair trade is important to them and what are their favourite products that they can buy in the shop. Unsurprisingly, chocolate and coffee feature high on their lists!Audio track that introduces all episodes Audio clip to exit all episodes in podcast

    13 min
  4. Series 3 Episode 1 - Michael Gidney interview

    9 SEPT

    Series 3 Episode 1 - Michael Gidney interview

    Send us a textMichael Gidney, currently the chief executive of the Fairtrade Foundation, has worked for at least 30 years in international development (which corresponds nicely with the 30th anniversary of FT movement in UK). He started out as a teacher in Kenya and then for their children's services in an orphanage, has worked with Voluntary Services Overseas and with Amnesty International. He joined Traidcraft in 19991 and became Director of Policy, then moved to the Fairtrade Foundation in...

    54 min

  5. 1 SEPT

    Rainbow Turtle Rebooted Series 3 Taster

    Send us a textWelcome to series 3 of Rainbow Turtle Rebooted the podcast that brings you the people and their stories from the world of fair trade. In this series we interview Michael Gidney, the chief executive of the Fairtrade Foundation, the organisation that oversees fair trade in the UK. We also meet Juliet Robb, the founder of Olive Tree, the charity that buys goods from artisans in the holy land in order to support them and their families. We also have something new for you, follo...

    3 min
  6. Rachel Farey interview

    27/06/2023

    Rachel Farey interview

    Send us a textIn this episode I am delighted to be talking with Rachel Farey of the One World Shop in Edinburgh. It's a beautiful shop positioned at the western end of Princes Street in Edinburgh with the historic castle as a backdrop.Rachel has had an interesting journey that started with working with L'Arche after she left school. L'arche is an international federation of Non-profit organisations working to create networks of community where people with and without intellectual disabilities...

    58 min
  7. Sally Sawaya interview

    08/06/2023

    Sally Sawaya interview

    Send us a textIn this episode we are playing a recording of a talk by Sally Sawaya of Meru Herbs in Kenya that she gave recently to the staff of True Origin and Rainbow Turtle in Paisley, Scotland. Sally is the managing director of Meru Herbs, the Kenyan fair trade company that produces tasty sauces, jams and herbal teas. Meru is a semi arid region of the country where, for many years, water was hard to obtain for farming and domestic use. Things changed just over 30 years ago with a collabor...

    26 min
  8. Mary Popple interview

    25/03/2023

    Mary Popple interview

    Send us a textIn this episode we meet Mary Popple the current chair of JTS, the company that imports fair trade goods into Scotland and distributes them throughout the UK.Mary grew up in Northern Ireland during the 50s and 60s on the border between the republic and the north. Her father was a church minister who tried not to take sides and, as tensions increased, took his family to Scotland. Those early years in northern Ireland gave Mary a strong sense of the importance of equality and of tr...

    35 min
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Welcome to the Rainbow Turtle Rebooted podcast. We intend to bring you interviews and information about fair trade and the work that Rainbow Turtle does.

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