Wherever you see the Sourced By Oxfam label, you won't just find beautiful things. You'll find ethical, sustainable products that help beat poverty worldwide.

Every product in our range helps fund Oxfam's work worldwide, helping people to overcome poverty. Our Fairtrade treats and handcrafted homewares are making the future brighter for workers worldwide. Organic food, cruelty-free beauty treats and gifts made from recycled materials are created with care for the planet. We're proud to back businesses powered by incredible, skilled women who are transforming their communities. Our ingenious designs are made by skilled craftspeople -from gorgeous homespun textiles to hand-tooled jewellery. We stock products from amazing businesses who share our values, and create jobs right here in the UK.

The items featured in this lookbook will be available in selected Oxfam high street shops or the Oxfam Online Shop www.oxfam.org.uk/sourcedbyoxfam  

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• Garden
• Gift
• Food
• Christmas
• Christmas Cards
• Calendars and Diaries
• Reusable Cups and Bottles
• Jewellery

A few featured products from the Sourced By Oxam Xmas Lookbook 2018 with photos attached. For full lookbook please see attached pdf.

Homeware

Handwoven Seagrass Baskets

Versatile baskets woven from seagrass, use them as storage or plant pots holders. Display them with the handles up, or folded down. Each basket is handmade by artisans in Vietnam.

Mai Handicrafts supports vulnerable families across Vietnam by helping artisans, who are mostly women, sell their handicrafts. Profits go back into the local communities providing education and training. They can be used turned up with handles or turned down for a shallower shape.

Red, Teal, Carnival Rice £19.99 (pictured)

Dassie Artisan is a UK-based supplier sourcing beautiful homewares from talented artisans. Hanh Dung, one of Dassie's producers, works alongside her husband and sister in Vietnam. The traditional skill of hand-weaving was passed down to Hanh Dung from her mother. The family has used this talent to set up work in their hometown and provide a stable income.

Gold Sequins £14.99 (pictured)

Natural & Recycled Sari Laundry Baskets (available in two sizes)

This sturdy laundry basket is made by weaving recycled saris into holga fibre by the skilled artisans of Prokritee in Bangladesh. Each one is unique.

About the Producers:

Prokritee is a fair trade producer group in Bangladesh. It creates work opportunities for poor rural women. Prokritee uses renewable sources to make its products, such as recycled saris and handmade paper.

Large: height approx. 70cm 502286 £34.99, Medium: height approx. 60cm 502287 £24.99

Penguin doorstop

This cheeky chap is made from jute -a vegetable fibre produced by plants. He is handmade in Bangladesh.

About the Producers:

CORR -The Jute Works in Bangladesh is a pioneering fair trade organisation working to empower rural artisans, especially disadvantaged people including women, the local indigenous community and people living with disabilities.

Penguin doorstop: 502314  £14.99

Garden

Recycled Paper Birdhouse Ball

This handmade birdhouse is crafted by fair trade producers in Bangladesh from recycled newspapers and magazines. It features a hanging loop and a varnished exterior to help keep its  feathery residents cosy and dry.

About the Producers:

Prokritee is a fair trade producer group in Bangladesh. It creates work opportunities for poor rural women in Bangladesh. Prokritee uses renewable sources to make its products, such as recycled saris and handmade paper.

Birdhouse: 502064 £10.99

Bee and Bug House

This Bee & Bug House provides a perfect home for all kinds of beneficial insects such as solitary bees, ladybirds and lacewings.

This product is designed in particular to attract solitary bees, as many natural habitats becoming harder to find. These wonderful creatures are non-aggressive, non-swarming and do a fabulous job pollinating plants and flowers. Their larvae eat insect pests such as aphids.

This sturdy Bee & Bug house can be left outside all year round.

It's made from sustainably sourced timber and biodegradable bamboo tubes where insects can live, nest and let their larvae develop. It is well insulated against winter cold.

Bee and Bug House: 190mmW x 168mmH x 123mmD 502094 £9.99

Food

Christmas Puddings

Our LillyPuds Christmas puddings are carefully handmade in England from scrumptious fruits blended with ale and brandy. Each one is packaged in a delightful ribbon tied giftbox. Dairy free, vegetarian and low sugar.

About the Producers:

Lillypuds Christmas pudding won the 2016 great taste award, due to its scrumptiously fruity flavours. Products are low sugar, dairy free, vegetarian and use Fairtrade ingredients.

Large Christmas Pudding 454g: 502548 £11.99,

Christmas Pudding x2 120g: 502549 £7.99

Recycled Sari Pompom Garland

Unique sari pom pom garland handmade from recycled saris by artisans in India.

About the Producers:

Asha Handicrafts, supports the work and traditional skills of artisans working across India.  All the profits improve the welfare of its craftspeople and their families. “I get advances with orders, fair price for my products and regular work" says Arvind, one of its producers. Asha means 'hope' in Sanskrit.

Recycled Sari Pompoms Approx. 250cm long: 502332 £12.99

Rudolph Brooch (Single Card)

This Rudolph card features a hand-stitch brooch. Made by women in Bangladesh using traditional techniques.

About the producer:

Swajan in Bangladesh helps fight poverty by providing work for women in rural and urban areas. Smrity, one of the women, lives in Dhaka. Working for Swajan means Smrity can educate her children and save money so her family's future is secure.

Rudolph Brooch (Single Card): 502516 £3.99

Jewellery

Recycled Bike Chain Cufflinks

These unique iron cufflinks are handmade from recycled bike chains by artisans in Moradabad, India. Beautifully unique.

About the Producers:

Asha Handicrafts, supports the work and traditional skills of artisans working across India.  All the profits improve the welfare of its craftspeople and their families. “I get advances with orders, fair price for my products and regular work" says Arvind, one of its producers. Asha means 'hope' in Sanskrit.

Recycled Bike Chain Cufflinks: approx. 2cm 502312 £7.99

Available in selected Oxfam shops or at www.oxfam.org.uk/sourcedbyoxfam

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Notes to Editors

Featuring OXFAM Products

• High resolution images and additional product information can be provided upon request. Please contact oxfam@wpragency.co.uk
• The items featured in this lookbook will be available in selected Oxfam high street shops or the Oxfam Online Shop www.oxfam.org.uk/sourcedbyoxfam-please contact oxfam@wpragency.co.ukfor specific item information.
• Oxfam has over 600 high street shops across the UK selling donated fashion, books, music, home wares and new products that are supported by a workforce of more than 23,000 shop volunteers. Oxfam launched the UK's first online charity shop in 2007.
• Oxfamis a global movement of people all working towards the same goal –an end to the injustice of poverty. Together we save and rebuild lives in disasters, help people earn a living, and speak out on the big issues, like inequality and climate change, that keep people poor. And we won't stop until we get there. Join us!