the windmill shop
The principal activity of the Headington Fairtrade Co-operative is selling fairtrade and similar goods from shop premises located on London Road in the main shopping centre of Headington, Oxford, set amongst a range of other independent shops.The shop is called "The Windmill", named after its location near to where there was a windmill for many centuries (of which you can find more information at www.headington.org.uk).
The UK market for fairtrade goods is the largest in the world and is growing rapidly. Large retailers have expanded considerably the range of fairtrade goods they offer, and independent fairtrade retailers continue to thrive. Headington has two supermarkets (The Co-op and Waitrose) that sells a limited range of fairtrade goods, and a few other businesses in the shopping centre also stock certain fairtrade goods. Our desire is to complement these, not to be unnecessarily competitive.
Oxford Brookes University has fairtrade status (it was the first university to achieve this), as does Oxford as a city. There is an independent fairtrade shop that has traded successfully for several years from the basement of St Michael’s church in Cornmarket in the centre of Oxford. Headington Fairtrade is proud to be associated with these longer established supporters of this approach to trade justice.