Helping you to help others

UK Vending supports the Fair Trade suppliers of coffee by offering the option to dispense Fair Trade or sustainable coffee from all our hot-drinks machines. Sustainable tea products are also now available. Talk to our friendly staff at the UKV help-desk who will be delighted to tell you about our range of ethical and environmentally friendly products.

We are committed to working responsibly with the farmers and communities around the world who produce the ingredients used to make our drinks.

We only deal with partners who trade responsibly and we already offer a range of drinks from sustainable certified sources, like Fairtrade and Brighter Tomorrow at Origin, but by 2010 we plan to source 30% of our drinks from certified sustainability schemes.

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Kenyan Dawn

In Kenya, Brighter Tomorrow at Origin helps over 2,500 small-scale farmers on the Ndumberi Co-operative to improve the quality of the beans they grow. We also contribute additional funds regularly, which in 2007 were used to construct and fund a health clinic. This included providing equipment, furniture and also paying for the wages of five health staff until the end of 2008 when the clinic will become self-sufficient. We are also funding a new quality testing facility for farmers on the Kenyan estate.

Malawi Garden

In Malawi, one of the World’s poorest nations, Brighter Tomorrow at Origin supports tea producers from the Kawalazi plantation. In 2008 we will continue to fund projects including investing in agronomic training for farmers and initiating tree planting and land rehabilitation

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PG Tips Rainforest Alliance

Early in 2008, PG Tips made friends with Rainforest Alliance. This means that the tea in our KLIX PG tea bags is grown using sustainable farming methods, and the workers who picked it earn a decent living and have good working conditions.

At least 50% of their tea already comes from the Rainforest Alliance Certified farms. They are working towards being fully certified by 2010

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KLIX Percol Coffee

PERCOL® is a brand that has become synonymous with the Fairtrade movement around the world. Since 1987, they've been dedicated to ethical trading and environmental sustainability and have even picked up awards for business ethics and community support.

Supporting communities

PERCOL® supports coffee communities by working with small independent growers working on their own land. And with ongoing contributions, they help these communities by supporting healthcare, education and micro enterprise projects

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KLIX Teadirect®

Teadirect® is a pioneering Fairtrade tea brand comes from Cafedirect®, the UK's largest Fairtrade hot drinks company. Cafedirect® buy from 37 producer organisations in 12 countries, providing over 250,000 farmers with a fair price for their crop.

Guaranteed minimum price

Operating to a Gold Standard Fairtrade policy, Cafedirect invests 60% of its profits back into support and training initiatives. They also guarantee their tea growers receive a minimum price for their tea – allowing communities to make a better life for themselves

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Cocoa is hugely important to some of the poorest communities in the world – around 90% of all cocoa comes from small, family farms. But every year, farmers risk losing more than a third of their crop to pests and diseases. Losses like these can have a devastating impact on the lives of cocoa farming families and thier communities, who rely on good harvests to survive.

Help farmers to help themselves

As a major user of cocoa, we are committed to making production more sustainable. We want to raise the standard of living for farmers, their families and the surrounding communities by helping them to increase the quality and quantity of the cocoa they can harvest.

By teaching farmers new, more efficient production techniques and investing in the development of more robust crops, we are helping the communities who rely on cocoa to thrive.