Swale Friends of the Earth 2025 Green Christmas Market

Here's some guidance for Christmas Shopping:

• Shop local and give gifts like crafts, organic hampers, or locally-brewed beer

• Give with love by making your own presents, such as home-made chutneys or chocolates

• Treat family or friends to things they love to do, like cinema & theatre tickets or book vouchers

• Help our wildlife by buying bee-friendly plants or seeds, bird-feeders or planting a tree

• For your own festive food and drink, choose local, seasonal, high-welfare produce

• Avoid plastic packaging and disposable plates and cups, and send e-cards

• Compost your kitchen waste

• Recycle cards and wrapping and check if you can get your tree collected.

• Use this guide to choose palm oil-free Christmas food and help save wild habitats from deforestation

• Before you buy a digital product, look up its repairability score out of 10 at iFixit.co.uk