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Cascada specialising in fairly traded Clothing and Crafts of South America .

We began by selling hand made crafts on the streets of touristic towns in the U.K and in South America we only used a bag of products to sell and a blanket to display our products on top of .The public response was good so we decided to travel in South America more and learn about the crafts and clothing of the mountains, Amazon Jungle and countryside in Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador .We learnt about the fantastic tradition of craft work and textiles however it was difficult to ignore the problems the same people faced to survive, we felt that working with them could help in many ways. Cascada is a small business that is self made by us and our colleagues in South America , we have a healthy working relationship with families and craftspeople and we are lucky to sell beautiful products from sacred places of the world at fair trade events , music festivals and christmas markets Lida Chaves also holds workshops in Jewellery making at festivals and colleges . Our emphasis is on fair trade so we are always looking for ways to run our business in the most ethical ways.

Shops, Museums, and other retail outlets can contact us for futher information and wholesale prices of our products all are available for wholesale and we offer friendly and competitive prices please email us for any more information or call us.

Cascada can be found trading at the Alexandra Palace farmers market in London, at other markets run by the Big Green Market and the Market Square Group.
We also hold large display stands annually at Glastonbury festival of performing arts in June ,Solfest in Cumbria ,Hastings Green Man celebration, Lincoln City Christmas market, Ludlow Medieval christmas event and more events such as fair trade fortnight around the U.K in February and March.

We offer a taste of the vibrant South American culture with our wide range of clothing and crafts we also hold excellent cultural contacts for music, art and celebration of latin American .We have strong connections with cultural organistaions such as Nueva Generacion, Kabula Arts, British Association of Fair Trade Shops, P.C.S Union, Glastonbury festival, Solfest and Better Haringey.

Cascada is run by Charley Jones and Lida Chaves Nempeque as a partnership we began by selling our own handmade jewllery on the beaches of Brazil and now we are proud to have seen our positive development over the last 5 years we are asociated with The Princes trust, British Association of Fair Trade Shops and National Market Traders Federation.

Charley Jones divides his time between running Cascada with studying oil painting and the practice of the Brazilian artform of Capoeira Angola which he has practised since 1999.

Lida Chaves Nempeque is a crafts person and qualified child carer as well as being the chief of accounts and display for Cascada her typically Colombian flair for handcrafts can be seen when Cascada hold a Fair Trade introduction and jewellery workshop at schools around the U.K.