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Tetley in the Community

Tetley Australia and Wellbeing4Life

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Ethical Tea Partnership

We're passionate about tea, and about translating that passion into the development of a successful international tea business.
We're equally passionate about making sure our success does not come at the expense of the people who help make it possible.

Growing

Growing and producing tea provides a livelihood for millions of people around the world. Assuring their living and working conditions is very important to us, and we manage this through our membership of a growing international organisation called the Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP). This is a non commercial alliance of 18 international tea packers who believe in a shared responsibility for the social and ethical conditions involved in the sourcing of tea.

So what exactly does the ETP do?

The ETP uses independent monitors to check that the tea estates its members buy tea from, are complying with the relevant laws and union agreements of their country. The monitors look at 6 key areas

• employment (including minimum age and wage levels)
• education
• maternity
• housing
• health and safety
• basic rights

They visit tea estates, talk privately to workers and trade union representatives, and check records to make sure workers are receiving everything they should, and that human rights are respected. The monitors will check health and safety procedures and equipment, and hospitals, schools and creches on estates, to see that standards are maintained.

Improvements

If improvements are needed the ETP works with the tea estate owners to try and bring these about.

The ETP started out in 1997, and is now active in 12 tea producing regions which together account for 70% of world tea exports. Thanks to its work, improvements have been seen in all areas of estate life - from the provision of safe drinking water to working hours and pay.

We hope this has given you a taste for the ethical standards which lie behind your favourite cup of tea. You can find out much more about the ETP by visiting www.ethicalteapartnership.org

 

Tetley Globally

The Tetley corporation and staff contributions together contributed £469,000 towards community projects in the year to March 2007. With projects as diverse as supporting local schools to helping schools get safe, clean latrines in Africa, we work to support all the communities we work within.

 

Tetley & Concern Universal

Tetley and Concern Universal have a partnership to improve lives in the African country of Malawi.

The project is a 3 year partnership with Concern Universal. Project Icon has enabled 10,000 people each year to gain and maintain access to safe water in Malawi.

The partnership and the efforts of Concern Universal go far beyond simply providing safe water points (i.e. digging wells). The project is built to create long term positive impact in communities.

How? The water sources are provided, combined with health, sanitation and general maintenance education for sustained community benefit. Beyond that, Concern Universal works with the local government and the community leaders to improve community teamwork and education, so together, Malawians will continue to improve their own living standards.

Want to get involved? Learn more at: www.concern-universal.org

Tata & the Community

Tata, the parent of Tetley also has as one of its core values to give back to the community. As such, they support very extensive projects that contribute to the communities within which they work. They provide over 1% of their pre-tax profit to communities every year. In 2004-2005 that was around $500 million Australian Dollars!

To learn more, click through to: http://www.tata.com/0_our_commitment/index.htm