Colin Firth Eco Shop

Get Ethical with Colin Firth this Christmas

Want to know what Colin Firth is getting for Christmas this year? The British actor's new eco shop in Chiswick ECO AGE is offering a 'his & hers' Christmas gift bag service with BAGS OF CHANGE, the only bag which is also an ethical shopping loyalty scheme: www.bagsofchange.co.uk

Christmas orders can be customised by filling one of the stylish Bags of Change bags with a selection of gifts from Eco Age. Prices start at 21 for the organic hemp-cotton bag and 40 for the wild rubber - bag plus gift contents.

'His' sample bag is shown, with a Bags of Change wild rubber bag.

This Christmas Bags of Change is also collaborating with a number of UK designers-makers and small green companies who have joined together to open a pop-up shop in Notting Hill with a superb selection of Fairtrade, ethical, organic, and eco-friendly products.

OUR ECO SHOP brings together the cream of British eco-chic designers under one roof, and anyone who shops there with a Bags of Change bag will be offered up to 10% off their Christmas shopping. www.ourecoshop.co.uk

For info/images contact Faith at Bags of Change on 07960 400 045 or bagsofchange.co.uk

Notes

* Our Eco Shop will be open from 10th November until 24th December 2008. Mon - Sat 10am - 6pm; Sun 12pm - 5pm. www.ourecoshop.co.uk
* Bags of Change is a unique ethical shopping loyalty scheme that is open only to independent ethical retailers. All affiliated retailers stock a selection of the Bags of Change branded bags and offer special discounts or offers to shoppers who shop with them.
* Shoppers buy a Bags of Change bag online or in any participating store and sign up via Bagsofchange.co.uk to receive a free e-newsletter with information about where they can shop ethically with their bag and get exclusive discounts (up to 10%).
* Bags of Change currently offers two bag designs:

i) Three colourways (rust, blue and green) of an organic cotton-hemp mix bag that features coconut shell buttons;

ii) A brown leather-look bag made from wild rubber sustainably tapped in the Amazon rainforest.

Bags of Change- shopping that doesn't cost the earth

25 Kew Gardens Road

RichmondTW9 3HD

+44 (0)7960 400 045

www.bagsofchange.co.uk

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