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Rainbow Turtle is a group of committed individuals helping to make Fair Trade easy for Paisley and Renfrewshire which in turn makes life better for our producers.

Want to know more about Fair Trade? You’ll find our handy introduction here.

You can also read about Rainbow Turtle’s history, and how Rainbow Turtle the Charity and Rainbow Turtle the Trading Company work together.

Want help promoting Fair Trade in your business, faith group or school? Check out the relevant sections of the site – they’re here just for you. As well as providing advice and educational materials, Rainbow Turtle offers a Sale or Return function for Schools and Faith Groups, making accessing Fair Trade simpler.

Want to buy Fair Trade products? Visit our Paisley shop. Looking for that special gift for someone? Check out our fair trade Hampers.

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More Fair Trade Learning At Home

We’re back to school after the Easter holidays this week, although of course “school” is a lot different now. So if you’re a parent or carer looking for some interesting ways to get Fair Trade into your kids’ education, here are some more ideas. You can read our first post on this subject here. Fashion… Continue reading More Fair Trade Learning At Home

New Shop Front

Since it could be a while until you get to see it in person, we thought that we’d have a virtual reveal of our newly updated Rainbow Turtle shop front! This work was completed just before the current government restrictions came into effect by the lovely Gerry and his workers, and we were so pleased… Continue reading New Shop Front

Happy Easter

Happy Easter from all of us at Rainbow Turtle. It was a very strange one this year, but we hope you all managed to celebrate it with family or friends in some way. Easter weekend would usually be a really busy weekend in the shop, with everyone rushing in to buy the last of our… Continue reading Happy Easter

Rainbows as Hope

At Rainbow Turtle, we’ve always seen our name and logo as forming part of our message of hope for the world around us: And so it has been very uplifting to see rainbows become a symbol of solidarity, of being alone together, during the coronavirus outbreak. People all over the country are displaying them in… Continue reading Rainbows as Hope

Rainbow Turtle Shop Closure

It is with a heavy heart that we announce that Rainbow Turtle will be closed until further notice. This is to protect our volunteers, staff and customers, so that we can come back as strong as ever once this has passed. Thank you to everyone who has supported us in the last few difficult weeks.… Continue reading Rainbow Turtle Shop Closure

Fair Trade Education At Home

With most schools around Scotland and the UK now closing indefinitely, many parents and carers will now be in the position of teaching their children in a way that they haven’t before. So while schools will be providing classroom materials to make sure that the important basics of literacy and numeracy are being covered, you… Continue reading Fair Trade Education At Home

Mother’s Day

While we’re open (because who knows how long this can last!) we’ve not only got a wide range of fair trade food and eco cleaning products, we’ve also got gifts and cards to celebrate your loved ones. So don’t forget about Mother’s Day this Sunday, even in these trying times, and pop into Rainbow Turtle… Continue reading Mother’s Day

We’re Still Open!

As of Wednesday 18th March we are still open, with our normal opening hours of 10am to 4pm, Tuesday to Saturday. Obviously the situation with Coronavirus is changing minute to minute, so this might not always be the case and we might have to close with short or no notice, but for the moment we… Continue reading We’re Still Open!

Sugar Producers’ Visit

Today we were lucky enough to have a visit from Malawian sugar producers, Nduzani and Aubrey, organised by the Scottish Fair Trade Forum, in conjunction with ourselves and the Renfrewshire Fair Trade Steering Group. First, Nduzani and Aubrey visited Bargarran Primary School in Erskine to speak to pupils from Bargarran, St John Bosco and Rashielea… Continue reading Sugar Producers’ Visit

Rainbow Turtle Ceilidh

Saturday night’s ceilidh, to mark Fairtrade Fortnight and the closing of the Roots Festival, was a huge success. About 80 people of all ages came along to the event at The Wynd Centre in Paisley to listen to the fantastic music by renowned ceilidh band, Haud Yer Lugs. The ceilidh was such a success that… Continue reading Rainbow Turtle Ceilidh

About us

Rainbows are symbols of hope and promise, and also of inclusion and diversity. When turtles are ‘bellyup’ they are at their most vulnerable to attack and it seems that the poorest people in the world will be forever vulnerable unless we turn trade values the right way up! How Rainbow Turtle started: Rainbow Turtle was… Continue reading About us