PeaceGold Launches Jewellery Membership

30 Apr 2025

Community interest company PeaceGold™ is excited to announce its jewellery membership: An invitation to anyone within the jewellery trade who wishes to use their practice as a vessel for peace, justice and prosperity.

PeaceGold is an international movement for conflict resolution and sustainable peace in Ituri Province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (eDRC). Despite conflict and historical complexities, eDRC is a land of rich cultural, community and mineral wealth.

Via long-standing partnerships with UK-based NGO PeaceDirect and the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CRC) in DRC, PeaceGold is currently partnered with 11 artisanal and small-scale (ASM) mining communities in Ituri to source responsibly-mined gold and bring it to the international jewellery market.

These collaborations are rooted in improving working standards for the 20,000+ individuals employed by the partner cooperatives, helping them achieve the necessary protections of labour and human rights to access international standards for legal gold production and sales.

PeaceGold is also pioneering ground-breaking new margins for peace-building, conflict resolution, training and community development. A dedicated community development fund helps to support children in their transitions into education, community activities centred on land rehabilitation, reintegration for ex-militia, psycho-social counselling for former combatants and individuals affected by violence, and sustainable new employment opportunities for women.

Now, the PeaceGold jewellery membership is open to anybody who wishes to join this mission. For a one-off payment of £250, the lifetime membership offers the following benefits:

- Priority access to PeaceGold bullion products when they come to market, offering members a beautiful story to share with their own customers. - The option to showcase jewellery collections on PeaceGold’s sister e-commerce website and/or in the PeaceGold Ethical Jewellery House on Bishop Auckland’s historic shopping street, Fore Bondgate.

- A hyperlinked jeweller’s profile listing on the PeaceGold website.

- Regular promotion across the PeaceGold social media channels.

- A personalised e-certificate for displaying on members’ websites, emails and social media channels.

- The opportunity to become an impactful public advocate for peace and conflict resolution.

“Our jewellery membership recognises that in order to achieve our goals we need to develop a deep and long-lasting relationship with the ethical jewellery movement,” says PeaceGold founder, award-winning ethical jewellery campaigner Greg Valerio MBE.

“These jewellers and brands are the voices, the hands, the passion and the genius that will transform the gold from our partners into lasting stories of beauty, art, design and talismans of peace.”

Elsewhere in its mission to fortify an international network of ethical jewellers, PeaceGold has been busy establishing its tangible presence here in the UK. In November 2024, the doors of the PeaceGold Ethical Jewellery House opened in the Northeast of England. This space invites visitors to shop a curated selection of ethical designer jewellery brands, chat to Greg Valerio directly about the social impact of PeaceGold’s work, commission repairs, resizes and bespoke projects, and partake in jewellery-making classes led by in-house goldsmith Kate Seow.

Subsequently, PeaceGold is currently shortlisted for Ethical Jewellery Business of the Year at this year’s UK Jewellery Awards.

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Source: PeaceGold