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Rare Tea Company is an independent company based in London. The company was founded in 2004, by Henrietta Lovell (known as the Tea Lady), to source and supply the world's best tea - direct from farmers and their tea gardens. From humble beginnings with just a handful of devoted customers, they now collaborate with many of the world's finest chefs, restaurants, bars and hotels from Noma to Claridges. Their aim is to benefit both the people who craft the tea and their customers who drink it. By always sourcing for quality over price we know we are bringing customers the best tea possible; and by buying direct they know they are putting the value of your tea into the farmers hands not middle men.

Seachange want to combine their love of great wine with their desire to do something to help protect our oceans. Turning the tide on the juggernaut that is plastic pollution is only going to happen if we all make changes, even small ones, and this is where the wine you choose can play a role. With the removal of the unnecessary plastic wrap around the cork, the use of renewable plant-based closures and the paper for the labels coming from certified sustainable forests and made partially from grape waste, combined with a donation to marine charities from every bottle sold they think choosing Sea Change does make a difference.

Welcome to the Social Supermarket Christmas Hamper Range 2020

Christmas is a time to surprise and delight friends, family and colleagues with gifts that show you are thinking about them, especially during these challenging times. Here at Social Supermarket, we have developed a range of food and drink hampers to suit every recipient.

These curated collections of sumptuous and award-winning treats – all from social enterprise brands with impact at their core – ensure that your gift will do that little bit more this festive season.

Social Supermarket is the leading social enterprise marketplace in the UK. By leveraging our network of over 70 social enterprise brands and 750 positive impact products, we are able to quantify the social and environmental impact of each hamper.

Want to see the good your gift is doing at a glance? Our impact icons stand for the positive ripple effect of each purchase across the world.

The Social Supermarket Team

Rubies in the Rubble founder, Jenny, started reading about the problem of food waste after seeing the amount of discarded produce at fruit and veg markets across London. Beautiful mangoes, cranberries & tomatoes all headed for landfill, often because they simply didn't look right.

Although much of the discarded produce is perfectly edible, much is thrown away due to aesthetic imperfections, over-forecasted demand or inefficiency in storing & distributing.

The scale of the problem of food waste got Jenny thinking about what could be done with all this surplus product. Surely there was a way of creating delicious, first-class product using excess produce?

Armed with some family recipes and car-bootful of rescued fruit and veg from New Covent Garden market, the experimentation in the kitchen began! It wasn't long before...

Refuge Hot Chocolate has been up and running since 2017 led by Chief Potion Maker Tara Mullan.'Not being a tea or coffee drinker I spent many years sampling the hot chocolate drinks throughout Ireland and beyond, never quite getting one that hit the taste buds of how I thought a hot chocolate should taste. Until a few years ago I went skiing in Andora and tasted something that hit the spot. It was strong, thick and had so much taste. More like melted chocolate than the expensive dish water I was often served in cafes.This awakening must have been filed away in the depths of my brain and came to the fore when I was trying to come up with a solution to financially support a local anti human trafficking charity I volunteer for. I briefly tested several ideas of projects to raise finance for the charity. Until one day the name Refuge and hot chocolate literally dropped into my head. This is when I started experimenting with recipes I read about and ones I made up.Once I got closer to what I thought was a good tasting drink I asked friends to test some and give me feedback. After this I had the recipe for the original chocolate. It's still the same recipe we use today.'Refuge Hot Chocolate have several products including liquid chocolate that can be enjoyed hot or cold, thick chocolate milkshake, solid hot chocolate Melts and a new hot chocolate Blend (finely ground chocolate and other magical things).Their products are fair trade and as waste free as possible, nut free, egg free, dairy free and gluten free.

Cafedirect are proud to be the UK’s first and largest Fairtrade hot drinks brand, improving lives all over the world. And with at least a third of their sales certified as Soil Association Organic, they do their bit for the planet as well.

Unlike any other coffee company, Cafedirect invest 50% of their profits into PRODUCERS DIRECT, a UK charity that works directly with farmers to improve sustainability and livelihoods, right across the coffee growing world. The charity is run by farmers, for farmers, taking leadership and developing innovative solutions to the challenges they face.

This reciprocal, direct relationship enables them to provide their consumers with great tasting, very high quality and continually improving drinks.

Conscious House is a small, female-founded brand, based in South West London creating natural and sustainable products. Every product from them has been handmade and uses ingredients and materials from trusted suppliers to help you bring more sustainable and affordable alternatives to your everyday routines.

​Each product is designed with their commitment to sustainable, natural and cruelty-free living in mind.

Panda Packaging was born out of a love and appreciation for the natural world around us and a burning to desire to sustain and heal our planet after seeing the devastating impacts of plastic pollution first hand.

The team at Panda Packaging are on a mission to help you reduce your environmental impact with their exciting, innovative, sustainable products. All of their products are handmade with love and care, without the use of harmful substances.

Hopeful traders collaborate with people affected by homelessness and mental illness Hopeful Traders is different to other social projects.

Rather than just reinvest profits into charities supporting those affected by homelessness and mental illness, they collaborate with people who have experienced or do still experience those issues. They are the ones who's creative talents and voice we give a platform to and they choose the organisations that we support.