Hair today, fair tomorrow

A hairdressing salon in Leigh on Sea has been turning heads among locals by offering Fairtrade coffee during a cut.

‘Hair’, owned by Terry Abott, swapped to Fairtrade coffee three years ago and in doing so, became the first salon to join the Fair Cut campaign. The aim of the campaign is to encourage more hairdressers and beauty salons to use Fairtrade products in the Borough of Southend.

Terry told us what was behind his decision to swap. ‘I didn’t buy anything from South Africa during apartheid because it wasn’t fair. Buying Fairtrade is the same thing to me. If it helps impoverished farmers, then it helps everybody. If it makes a business work where there is not a lot of business, then it is worth doing.’

Leigh-on-Sea Fairtrade Town Campaign:www.fairtradeleigh.org.uk