Remember we’re still operating our click and collect service! Just order before midnight on Sunday here and collect on Wednesday at an agreed time. The shop will also be open on Wednesday between 11 and 2 so if there are gaps in our collection schedule you can pop in for a browse! All we ask is that you first have a look through our windows to check if there’s another customer in already, and follow our simple guidelines.
Rainbow Turtle successfully launched its click and collect service at its Paisley shop today. The shop is now open on a Wednesday for customers who have ordered through the website.
Each customer is allocated a 15 minute interval between 11am and 2pm to pick up their order. Needless to say, they can also add to their order at the time or get refills for their Ecover cleaning products.
For more information, please visit our online ordering page.
With our new click & collect service beginning, we thought that it was time to seek out new products that are useful for the unusual times we’re living in. These 100% fair trade cotton reusable face masks are the perfect ethical and environmentally friendly alternative to disposable masks and are just £4.99 each. They also look great! The different pattern names are below (reading from top left) and you can order your favourite, along with all of your food, drink and cleaning essentials, here.
As you might know, Rainbow Turtle is almost entirely run by our lovely volunteers. Many of our volunteers are still vulnerable to coronavirus, and so we’ve decided that we aren’t quite ready to reopen fully yet. Instead, we’ll be taking orders here for click & collect and delivery starting next week! The deadline each week will be Sunday midnight, and orders will be collected/delivered on Wednesdays. We’ll be in touch to arrange a collection slot or payment for deliveries. We hope that this will be a good stepping stone to reopening, and that lots of you will be willing to support us in this way, and get access to great Fair Trade products again!
Have you noticed anything different about our website recently? Maybe that there aren’t adverts anymore? Thanks to the hard work of our director, Colum Scriven, and his friend Alan, we’ve finally got our dot-org-dot-uk web address back! It had been feared lost to hackers some time ago, and we had been using a temporary address ever since, but we’re now back in business. So if anyone asks you where to go for information on Rainbow Turtle (especially as our shop is sadly closed until further notice) then direct them to www.rainbowturtle.org.uk for the most up to date info! If you’re subscribed to our newsletter, which collates these blogs once a month, you’ll still receive this as normal. If you aren’t yet subscribed to our blog you can join here.
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 Revolution week 2020 begins today, and is a week to reflect on the Rana Plaza disaster in 2013, as well as look at the problems, both human and environmental, within the clothing industry today. Fashion Revolution have lots of fun activities for young learners, which can be found here.
If your children are looking for ways to explore their creativity, Divine Chocolate and Christian Aid have the competition for you. They’re asking young people aged 7 and over to write poems on the theme of Where does the chocolate journey begin? There are tasty prizes and the completion closing date isn’t until 5th June so you’ve still got plenty of time to get started. You can find out more here.
For younger learners, the Fairtrade Foundation have produced some home learning activities on the theme of Pablo the Super-Banana, a super fun character! They also want everyone to share their home learning with the hashtag #FairtradeTogether on social media. We’d love to be tagged in any posts too so that we can see the amazing work everyone is doing!
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 and grateful to receive grants from Renfrewshire Council to pay for this work to get Rainbow Turtle looking sharp again.
We hope to see you all in the shop again very soon!
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 Fair Trade eggs and cards, but sadly this year the Rainbow Turtle shop remains closed. We did manage to sell lots of our eggs before we shut up shop, and the few that we do have left will be donated to good causes in the local area. As one of our wise volunteers said to me recently: Easter is a moveable feast and we’ll celebrate it properly when we can.
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 their windows, as the BBC has reported, and it’s become a fun game for children (and adults!) to spot as many as they can while getting their daily exercise.
Our shop manager and education officer, Gemma, who is self-isolating at home in Glasgow, has spotted lots in her area and added her own (very non-artistic!) rainbow to her living room window with a friendly face, which has been drawing lots of attention and waves from the local children.
We can get through this together and we’ll see you all back in our rainbow-filled shop very soon. Keep safe!
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. Keep well and we’ll see you very soon!
