The Country Range | Oasis Coffins The Country Range from J C Atkinson The Fair Trade Choice The Country Range offers a selection of coffins which are made using sustainable materials, are readily biodegradable and are suitable for all types of natural or traditional burial and have also been tested for their suitability and are accepted for cremation. This range of products has a low Global Warming Potential (GWP) carbon footprint and offers a social and ethical benefit, be it to a community involved with their manufacture or through our donations to Groundwork UK and our tree tribute initiative. The Country Range products encompasses all these values and offers a range of styles to suite all tastes, by choosing from this range you have made a positive difference to the environment and left a social benefit. t he CountryRange tm The Country Range of alternative coffins are supplied by J C Atkinson, a UK based award winning company known for high environmental standards and manufacturing innovation.
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The Country Range | Oasis CoffinsThe Country Range from J C Atkinson
The Fair Trade Choice
The Country Range offers a selection of coffins
which are made using sustainable materials, are
readily biodegradable and are suitable for all types
of natural or traditional burial and have also been
tested for their suitability and are accepted for
cremation.
This range of products has a low Global Warming
Potential (GWP) carbon footprint and offers a social
and ethical benefit, be it to a community involved
with their manufacture or through our donations to
Groundwork UK and our tree tribute initiative.
The Country Range products encompasses all
these values and offers a range of styles to suite all
tastes, by choosing from this range you have made
a positive difference to the environment and left a
social benefit.
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The Country Range of alternative coffins are supplied by J C Atkinson, a UK based award winning company known for high environmental standards and manufacturing innovation.
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Fair Trade Bamboo Ashes CasketA natural styled Bamboo ashes casket designed to complement the Natural Bamboo coffin.
Oasis Coffins
Representatives from Traidcraft, the UK’s largest Fair Trade organisation
have conducted a rigorous assessment of the business on location in
Bangladesh, and are pleased to endorse all of the coffins and urns
produced by Oasis as Fair Trade. Ongoing assessments will be made
to ensure that these high standards are maintained. Locally, Oasis is an
active member of the Fair Trade Forum in Bangladesh.
The Oasis Coffins enterprise has been established in Nilphamari district, Bangladesh. This
area is 500km north of the capital city Dhaka, and suffers from extreme poverty. Oasis is committed
to the Ten Principles of Fair Trade agreed by the World Fair Trade Organisation.
Fair Trade BambooA traditionally shaped bamboo coffin which is tasteful and naturally beautiful. Can be interwoven with flowers and foliage too.
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“Our assessment shows that Oasis has fully embraced the ten principles of Fair Trade in its policies and working practices. We’re delighted to see that Oasis is making such a practical and positive social impact in a region of real poverty. This is a strong example of Fair Trade helping to transform lives and providing hope through the opportunities offered.” Larry Bush, Marketing Director, Traidcraft
Our bamboo has been sourced from locally grown bamboo plants, which have been sustainably managed
and harvested in Bangladesh according to best practice. We work in partnership with a local Bangladeshi
charity called Supoth, and work directly with 40 producers from rural communities in which Supoth are
engaged. We ensure that fair prices are paid, and that we have relationships with all of our suppliers.
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Fair TradeTraditional WillowHand-woven on a bamboo frame,this willow (wicker) coffin has a more traditional shape and comes with an engraved wooden nameplate. Available in Chestnut and Natural Willow.
Fair Trade Willow Ashes CasketA natural styled willow ashes casket designed to complement the Willow coffins. The casket is available in Chestnut and Natural Willow.
Fair Trade Oval WillowHand-woven on a bamboo frame, this willow coffin has a rounded end casket shape and comes with an engraved wooden nameplate. Available in Chestnut and Natural Willow.
Willow canes are from a fast growing trees, coppice grown
on a two to three year cycle. The canes are sustainable and benefit
the local ecology and the environment in general. The willow used
in our coffins is sourced from managed and known sources from the
“willow town” of Linyi in the Shandong province of China.
Chestnut Willow is harvested and boiled to remove the bark.
The tannin in the bark dyes the willow wood “chestnut” brown.
The Natural Willow is harvested the same way, but is treated to
remove the tannin, restoring the pale natural off white colour of the
cane.
The willow is hand-woven in Bangladesh, piece-by-piece onto a
frame made from locally sourced bamboo.
Natural Willow
Chestnut Willow
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Fair Trade Seagrass Ashes CasketA natural styled Seagrass ashes casket designed to complement the Seagrass Oval Coffin.
Fair Trade Seagrass OvalA freshwater plant, grown in abundance in the Noakhali district of Bangladesh. Sun dried and spun, it is woven onto a bamboo frame to form the Seagrass Coffin.
Seagrass is actually a freshwater
plant, known locally as “Hogla”. Hogla grows
abundantly along the banks of freshwater rivers
and flood prone land and is available from
managed resources in the Noakhali district of
Bangladesh. Local producers harvest the grass
twice a year, dry it and spin it into long pieces,
often more than 20m in length.
As the Hogla dries its colour subtly changes
from a green to a rich reddish brown. There is
a rich tradition in Bangladesh of making woven
products from this beautifully coloured material.
The material is woven in Bangladesh onto a
locally sourced Bamboo frame to produce a
distinctively beautiful product.
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Salma’s StoryBefore joining Oasis, Salma* worked
as house maid. Her husband couldn’t
support the family either due to the
irregular income as a labourer paid on
a daily basis. They did not have proper
home, and lived in a very basic bamboo
hut with a thin polythene roof. Their hut was often blown
away by storms during the monsoon season.
She joined Oasis Coffins in 2009 as a tailor, with
responsibility for stitching coffin linings. She started to save
some money each month and was then able to take a small
loan from a local charity, through which she bought a small
piece of land. She has now paid off the loan and has been
able to build her own home! She is now planning to take a
fresh loan to buy land for her husband to cultivate.
With increased stability in her family, both her 12 year old
and 9 year old sons have been able to go to school. She has
also learnt a range of other skills in the coffin manufacturing
process.
Oasis Coffins now employs 80 people, many of whom have
similar stories. Our Fair Trade endorsement buy Traidcraft
affirms our commitment to excellent working conditions, fair
wages, and care for the environment.
* [Photograph and name have been changed to preserve anonymity]