Fair Trade, Eco and Ethical

Have you just picked up your first tarot deck with no clue how to start learning them? Are you looking at the pictures and trying to deduce something like you’re back in English class, your teacher desperately asking why the curtains in chapter eight are purple? Maybe you’re stuck on one card and it’s trying to tell you something – you can feel it – but nothing comes to mind?

I’m no tarot expert, but I’m also no stranger to a tarot guide book. In fact, I think that a guide and a tarot journal is a key part of your learning journey. I’ve found that although I’m not the best, I remember better when I look up the meanings and jot them down as a memento of my own moments where I’ve needed that little bit of spiritual guidance >>

We've just had an update from Karm Marg, an orphanage near New Delhi who help to get kids off the streets. Essentially a home for children, it provides a safe refuge, a family-like atmosphere and opportunities for education, skills development and employment.

Several years ago Shared Earth sponsored some of these children. When Karm Marg first met them, they were on the streets, abused, hungry and parent-less and with no hope in their lives at all. >>

Congratulations to our Liverpool shop on winning the Best Gift Shop award in the England Business Awards North West

Our Liverpool shop is officially the best gift shop in Liverpool. Retail Director Jen and her team picked up this prestigious award on Saturday at the English Business Awards North West event >>

The latest quarterly ‘catch’ at the river barrier in Bali we sponsor was 1,175kg of plastic, the largest daily catch being 63kg on 6 June.

Total to date (March 2022 - June 2023): 6,335kg >>

One of our main objectives is to ensure that we use as many sustainable raw materials as posssible.

Recycled and sustainable products are the basis of our product range. We have always used as many recycled materials as possible, and consider the impact on the planet when choosing and developing new products >>

Shared Earth tries hard to build the capacity of its producers, and in 2022 we gave a grant of £8,800 to eleven of the producer groups we buy from in Bali.

Bali’s artisans have an astonishing array of skills, and our producers there are all small family businesses, usually with between 1 and 5 workers. They make mobiles, dreamcatchers, suncatchers, buddhas, bee and bird houses, terrariums, patchwork clothing, wooden cats and birds, mosaic pottery, musical instruments and a host of other products. Most are based in rural areas around the town of Ubud, in the north of Bali >>