Global Village Nanaimo - Fair Trade & Non-Profit
The 2023 Fall Pop Up Store is opening a #100 - 427 Fitzwilliam Street in Nanaimo, B.C. Store hours will be 10 am to 5 pm, Monday thru Saturday. until December 23, 2023
Global Village Nanaimo Spring Store Opens!
Our spring store will be open from April 5 to 26 in Country Club Mall, Nanaimo. This is a new location for us, so we hope you will come and check us out! Store will be open mall hours, except we will be closed on Easter Sunday. Hope to see you there!
Global Village Nanaimo will be opening our Annual Pop-up Store at 437 Fitzwilliam Street. Hours will be 10 am to 5 pm, Monday thru Saturday
Each year Global Village Nanaimo celebrates Fair Trade Month with a short term seasonal store.
This year we will once again be open in Nanaimo North Town Centre, 4750 Rutherford Road in Nanaimo. Please join us while we celebrate our 25th year of Fair Trade Retail Sales! Mall hours are 10 am to 6 pm on Monday - Saturday, and 11 am to 5 pm on Sunday.
Joy Dube, a long time supporter and current Board Member of Global Village Nanaimo, made an excellent presentation via zoom to high school teachers on a Pro-D day. The presentation included a lot of supporting materials and references for teachers to use.
We are Celebrating 25 Years of Fair Trade this year, so we are making a new commitment to keeping this page, with current events, updated. While the beginning of the year can be a bit quiet as we do more behind-the-scenes work, we promise to let you know when things start happening again for Global Village Nanaimo. That will make it easier for you to join us or support us!
Today we added 3 new scarves to our online assortment. These are lightweight, colourful and beautiful. One is light green with a hint of teal, with white batik work, and the other two are off-white with painted or block printed designs. These are from India
We are excited to announce that our 2020 Seasonal Store is now OPEN! We are at #504- 6581 Aulds Road. That is the same shopping centre as Home Depot, Staples and BCAA. This year we are located beside Wine Kitz. Our store hours are Monday - Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm.
We have set up safety screens and we are doing regular cleaning. Our volunteers are keeping everyone’s safety a priority throughout the day.
You may notice that there are more items in packaging. That is also for your protection as it reduces the amount of handling by people before an item is purchased.
We welcome phone orders, email orders and online orders. These can all be picked up at the curb at the store, or picked up a Academy of Learning, in Nanaimo.
We hope to see you soon!
Even amidst COVID, we were able to open our Spring Pop-Up Store for 4 weeks in Nanaimo North Town Centre in June. Thank you to everyone who came in or phoned in orders during this time! We had a chance to show some of the new products that had arrived from India and to connect - at a distance - with many of our regular customers. Other popular items included our “flower pot baskets” from Vietnam and our “Dr. Bonnie Henry” necklaces from Nepal.
It also gave a very good opportunity to practice and to learn what we need to do to open our main seasonal store later in the year. We were fully set up with hand sanitizer, wipes, plexiglass and markers on the floor. A special thank you to everyone who was flexible and patient as we all learned what we needed to know. We look forward to welcoming everyone for a safe shopping experience in the fall.
It is always a treat to spend time thanking our amazing volunteers for the work they have done over the past year. We have approximately 40 people involved with our organization at any given time and we value each and every one of them. This year we welcomed Jan Pullinger as our guest speaker. Thanks to Jan’s knowledge and passion we all learned a little more about the power and positive effects of co-operatives.
This event is for all volunteers who have supported Global Village Nanaimo during 2018. Invitations will be sent directly to volunteers.
Global Village Nanaimo is pleased to announce that they will be sponsoring 2 films that are being shown as part of the Global Film Festival on February 7 - 9, 2019.
The funds being used for this sponsorship were donated to Global Village Nanaimo in memory of long time supporter, Vilma Dube, who passed away in early 2018.
Global Village Nanaimo will be offering several "Double Bill" passes for the combined showing of "Fertile Ground: Brewing Change in Northeast India" and " Cooperativa". These films are being shown at 3 pm on Saturday February 9 in Building 355 (Room 203) at Vancouver Island University.
Products will be available for sale, and there will be a short opportunity for discussion after the film as well.
A "Double Bill" pass will allow the ticket holder to either have 2 seats at this combined film showing, or a single seat at this film and at another film after this sponsored event.
Global Village Nanaimo has supported both of the coffee and tea suppliers that will be featured in these films by selling the products in their seasonal store. Fair trade customers will have a rare opportunity to see behind the scenes and learn more about some of the specific fair trade products available in Nanaimo.
If you are interested in reserving a complimentary "Double Bill" pass for this film, being shown at 3 pm on Saturday February 9, please send an email to gvnanaimo@gmail.com with the name of the person who will be picking up the ticket at the venue. Please do not request more than you need, so that we can ensure as many people as possible can attend
For a full listing of the films in the 2019 Global Film Festival, please click here.
Visit GVN at our booth at the Nanaimo Women's Show 2017.