The Green Fair

The Green Fair returns to the National Waterfront Museum on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November, part of the museum's Christmas programme. It's a fair with over 40 stalls selling eco-friendly, organic, fair trade, recycled and locally produced goods, and it's billed as everything you need for a truly Green Christmas.

It's a Swansea institution with a long memory. The fair dates back to 1983 and has run every year bar two since, moving through a few homes before settling here in 2005, shortly after the museum opened. It started with the Swansea Green Group and later passed to the local Friends of the Earth group; the Environment Centre took over when it opened in 1995. Throughout those changes, it's kept to its roots: it continues to support local environmental groups, helps people take action on environmental issues and offers a local, sustainable alternative to global mass-produced goods.

It's also a fundraiser for the Environment Centre, which is an independent registered charity. So when you're browsing the stalls, you're supporting that work as well as the local producers on display. Between the organic and fair trade lines, the recycled finds and the locally made bits, there's plenty to pick through if you're looking for Christmas gifts that don't come from a warehouse on the other side of the world.

It runs across the full weekend: Saturday 10am to 4pm and Sunday 10am to 3pm, at the National Waterfront Museum on Oystermouth Road, SA1 3RD. Entry is free.