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About Us

Bishopston Trading Company is a Fairtrade company working with
the village of K.V. Kuppam in Southern India.
We have five shops in Bristol, Bradford on Avon, Glastonbury,
Stroud and Totnes and a mail order catalogue.
We also offer a wholesale range and have stockists
throughout the U.K. and Europe as well as further afield.



All profits are used to benefit the people of K.V. Kuppam
through our registered charity, the South India Rural Development Trust.
In recent years this trust has been able to fund a beautiful, architect designed factory in the village. This has hugely improved the working conditions for our producer partners, giving them light spacious airy units in which to work, and importantly for them, bringing them all together in one location The building is on the edge of the village and is surrounded by coconut groves and rice paddy fields. In January 2006 a grand inaugural ceremony was held and Carolyn Whitwell who started the Bishopston Trading Company in 1985 officially opened the buildings.

The trust also has accommodation for visitors within the grounds. Please contact us if you would like to visit K.V. Kuppam