1 Less Car have extended their reduction on all of their multi-coloured High Viz Jackets, with sizes from tiny tots to adults, down to less than half price until the end of December.

So if you’re needing an ethical Xmas present for that cyclist who has everything, now’s the time to snap one up!

Jackets come in 5 colours –red, green yellow, pink or orange, and range from sizes to fit 3-4 year old tots carried on the back of a bike, right up to extra large. And they’re not made in a sweatshop.

To have a look, find us at www.1lesscar.org.uk or on our page at Ethical Junction.

For orders before 3.00pm , we post them the same day 1^st class.  And we can get them to you for Xmas if ordered up to Monday 21st December.

1 Less Car is an active member of Ethical Junction, learn more

This
Christmas, Present Aid offers an alternative gift for
chocoholics that is not only calorie
free but also helps poor
farmers
cope with the impact of climate change.

The
chocolate kit, which costs £47 from Christian Aid’s virtual gift
service,
consists of cocoa seedlings and training for
Nicaraguan farmers to help them adapt to global warming by switching
from
growing coffee to cocoa that strives in hot climates.

Fourteen
million people worldwide
depend upon
cocoa for their livelihoods,
almost
90 per cent  of whom are on small family-run farms in developing
countries. Aurora Picado, 45
year
old coffee farmer, said: ‘We just used to grow coffee, now we grow
bananas and
cocoa. Everyone has seen their coffee harvest fall… If it is very hot,
the
plants get many diseases. That is why cocoa is a good alternative. It
likes a
hot climate.’

Other
new Present Aid gifts include a soap making kit from Burkina Faso for £13, equipment that helps women make
high quality
soap to sell; a flooding survival kit in Central America for £20; a nutritious meal for
80 children in Bangladesh for
only
£10; and a school kit for
£22
consisting of exercise books, pencils, pens, and erasers for 30 students for
one year. The Present Aid catalogue and website www.presentaid.org
contain 40 gift ideas, ranging in price from £5 to £1,400.

Ruth
Ruderham,
Christian Aid’s Head of Fundraising, said: ‘Through Present Aid, people
can
purchase unusual and meaningful gifts that make a lasting difference to
some of
the poorest communities in
the world’

As
a Present Aid buyer you receive a card with more
information about the gift
you have
‘bought’ which you can send to your loved one you have bought the
present for, and the actual
gift goes to help someone in a poor
country. The money goes to one of the following
project funds relevant to the gift from where it gets distributed to
Christian
Aid partner organizations:

-         
agriculture
and
livestock

-         
emergency
and
disaster preparedness

-         
healthcare
inc.
HIV/Aids

-         
training
and
education

-         
water
and
environment

The
deadline for Christmas gift
purchases is 15 December. Call 0845 3300 500 to order
a catalogue.