Have a purposeful Easter with social impact marketplace Social Supermarket

For Easter 2022, the UK’s largest social enterprise marketplace, Social Supermarket has put together a range of social impact gifts to delight the little ones and big kids alike. Whether you’re relaxing on Good Friday, 15th April or having the family round for Easter Sunday dinner, 17th April, there’s something for every moment. With stories behind each and every gift box, the range ensures you can make a real difference in the world, while celebrating this chocolate-filled holiday season.

From left: The Social Enterprise Chocolate Taster Letterbox Gift, £15.99, The Eco Easter Bundle, £28.99

The Social Enterprise Chocolate Taster Letterbox is ideal for sending sweet treats in the post. It includes:

• Original Beans’ Esmeraldas, a vegan-friendly bar that also plants a tree thanks to the brand’s One Bar: One Tree programme 
• Divine’s Chocolate with Ginger and Orange is as spicy as it is zesty, made to the brand’s usual high ethical standards.
• Chocolate and Love for ethically made bars too, including the 80% Panama bar in this hamper. 
• Pioneers of Fairtrade in the UK, Traidcraft’s Shortbread Rounds are perfect for breaking out with a cuppa over Easter.

Meanwhile, The Eco Easter Bundle features ethical favourite Tony’s Chocolonely’s Milk Chocolate with Lemon Meringue and their Egg-stra Special Easter Chocolate Eggs Assortment, alongside other social enterprise treats:

• Divine Chocolate’s Milk Chocolate Speckled Mini Eggs and White Chocolate with Strawberries, both of which come from the original Fairtrade pioneer and B Corp chocolatier where the  farmers own 44% of the company
• Chocolate and Love, Rich Dark Chocolate Bar, a bean-to-bar chocolate that supports cocoa farmers through equitable trade, while supporting reforestation projects.

The Easter Chocolate Care Package Gift Box, £43.99

In this Easter gift box, a luxury dark Easter egg with mini eggs by Divine Chocolate sits at the centre of the gift. It comes accompanied by chocolate bars from the likes of climate-positive bean-to-bar brand, Original Beans, who use an ultra rare white cacao bean sourced from Peru’s coastal desert in making their Piura chocolate bar.

The Easter Chocolate Lover, £53.99

For chocolate lovers who just can’t get enough come Easter, this larger gift box will be a treat. Stand-out products within it include:

• Chocolate and Love’s Rich Dark Assorted Chocolate Gift Box, featuring 4 x 40g bars from the range of vegan-friendly bars. 
• Refuge Chocolate’s Chocolate Spread and Hot Chocolate Melts, both of which support an anti-human trafficking charity
• Grace Chocolates Changing Lives for Social Supermarket, chocolate-covered coffee beans, which support women who’ve touched the Scottish criminal justice system with training and employment.

For those hosting over the Easter weekend, the Sustainable Soirée Gift Box will help to ensure the pre-dinner snacks and post-dinner tea and coffee are all doing their bit for the planet. Everything inside is also vegan-friendly, making it an inclusive option for entertaining.

From left; The Red Wine & Easter Treats, £49.99; The Sustainable Soirée Gift Box, £49.99

More purpose-driven products come courtesy of Harry Specters. The award-winning chocolatier provides employment to autistic adults. They create 69p of social value for every £1 spent with them – ensuring training and employment for autistic adults, 78% of who are unemployed despite wanting to work, according to research from the Office for National Statistics.

For Easter, Harry Specters is offering handmade and decorative chocolate eggs, as well as chocolate gift boxes with Easter-themed chocolate truffles.

From left; A Little Bit of Everything – Easter Chocolate Box, £17; The Ruby Jewel Egg Combo, £22 (coming soon)

Meanwhile, Refuge Chocolate has a tongue-in-cheek twist on marshmallows that typically top their hot chocolates. They’ve created Chubby Bunny marshmallows especially for Easter. Every one helps to fund Flouish NI, an organisation supporting survivors of human trafficking.

Refuge Chocolate Chubby Bunny Marshmallows, £6.50

 

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