Christian Trading Company Receives Queen's Award
Traidcraft plc, an organisation set up to model a Christian approach to business, has recently been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise.
As UK's leading organisation dedicated to fighting poverty through trade, Traidcraft has been granted the Sustainable Development award for its pioneering work on using social accounting and a partner review process to promote dialogue with all its stakeholders.
Set up by a group of Christians on Tyneside in 1979, the trading company and the associated charity are currently working with over 100 producer groups in more than 30 developing countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
