On 30^th June 2012 Teresa Owen from Fairwind and Paul Hayman, MD of MA Assist, travelled to Odense in Denmark to hand over the £10,000 they raised to renovate the local school in Tlugi, Ambrolauri, the remote and poor cone picking region of Georgia.

Fairwind and Fair Trees were at The Greats Awards 2012 at the London Lancaster Hotel last night. Nominated in the category "Best Retail Initiative", we were there to see if we had won.

After much hard work, some tears and a great deal of patience from our IT support we have done it. The brand new Fairwind website is here with more features and useful services to help us make your shopping experience with us even better.

Find out what changes we have made and how shopping for ethical presents just got even better.

Over 5 million Nordmann Fir real Christmas trees are sold in the UK each year. About 90% of the seeds for Nordmann fir Christmas trees are sourced from the natural forests in Georgia through an auction system that is corrupt and generates hardly any income for the cone pickers. Here are a couple of real life stories from cone pickers in Ambrolauri, Georgia. 

Here Paul Hayman, managing director of MAAssist, tells his eventful story about his visit to Georgia in March this year, where he visited the school and started to make plans for the renovation.