Help keep KitKat Fairtrade

KitKat is to drop the Fairtrade Foundation’s logo after ten years.

It’s makers, Nestle, plan to alter arrangements for sourcing ingredients. The Fairtrade label guarantees that the farmers behind a product get a set minimum price as well as a financial bonus.

The URC is one of many organisations to protest. The Revd Nigel Uden and Derek Estill, Immediate-past Moderators of the URC General Assembly, and the Revd John Proctor, outgoing URC General Secretary, said: “The United Reformed Church is strongly committed to supporting and endorsing fair trade, and we regard very highly the work of the Fairtrade Foundation. The recent news from Nestle is deeply disappointing. Our luxury – chocolate – has been other people’s lifeline. Cutting some of these connections would leave a very sour taste indeed.”

To have your say with the makers of Nestle to keep KitKat Fairtrade, sign this petition.