Rainbow Turtle Rebooted Fair Trade Podcast

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Rainbow Turtle Rebooted Fair Trade 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 8 - Meet the volunteers 5

    OCT 29

    Series 3 Episode 8 - Meet the volunteers 5

    Send us a textIn this episode we introduce you to two more volunteers with the organisation.First up is Anne Scriven. Anne has been involved in fair trade for a long time, starting with her local church group in Kirkintilloch though to helping out in the Rainbow Turtle shop, various stalls and events.We finish with Steph Mayo who started out as a community worker helping local women's group who were interested in global issues. This lead to a meeting with Maureen Brough, a long term volunteer...

    13 min
  2. Series 3 Episode 7 - Linda Okhuoya Ologe interview

    OCT 24

    Series 3 Episode 7 - Linda Okhuoya Ologe interview

    Send us a textIn this mini episode we meet our education officer, Linda Okhuoya Ologe. Linda has been on maternity leave for this past year and, just before fair trade fortnight, I popped round to Linda's house to interview her and to hold her new baby, Zoraya!As well as talking about fair trade, Linda spoke about an interesting project that she'd been involved in to bring fair trade coffee beans from Rwanda and Uganda to Paisley. She linked a new social enterprise, The Alternative Coffee Com...

    13 min
  3. Series 3 Episode 6 - Meet the volunteers 4

    SEP 27

    Series 3 Episode 6 - Meet the volunteers 4

    Send us a textIn episode 6 of our current series we meet 3 more volunteers from Rainbow Turtle.First up is Kitty McEachen, an escapee from Glasgow who, to her surprise, found that Paisley wasn't such a bad place to live in, especially when she came upon Rainbow Turtle and some of the committed volunteers, including the inspiring founder, Liz Cotton.Next we have Duncan Macintosh, a long term supporter of fair trade, and early stall holder, who became a volunteer in the shop when he retired in ...

    12 min
  4. Series 3 Episode 5 - Meet the volunteers 3

    SEP 23

    Series 3 Episode 5 - Meet the volunteers 3

    Send us a textIn episode 5 of series 3 of our podcast we meet Elise Kelly, our creative shop manager. Elise has been in charge for about three and a half years. She joined us when we were just coming out of covid when things were tight and sales were poor. During that time Elise has transformed Rainbow Turtle shop into a bright and colourful place to come and buy fair trade products. After Elise we have Jonathan Barr, one of our younger volunteers, who was unemployed when he first joined...

    11 min
  5. Series 3 Episode 4 - Meet the volunteers 2

    SEP 19

    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
  6. Series 3 Episode 3 - Juliet Robb interview

    SEP 16

    Series 3 Episode 3 - 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
  7. Series 3 Episode 2 - Meet the volunteers 1

    SEP 12

    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
  8. Series 3 Episode 1 - Michael Gidney interview

    SEP 9

    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
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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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