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Madlug was founded in 2015 by Dave Linton. A man whose only experience in the luggage industry was bags of enthusiasm. This 40-something Youth Worker was heartbroken to learn that most children in care transport their worldly belongings in a bin bag. In that moment, Dave set out to do something about it. With just £480, he started Madlug and came up with a ‘Buy one Give one’ approach: for every bag you purchase, one will be given to a child in care.

There are over 90,000 children in care in the UK and Ireland. One child enters the UK care system every 15 minutes. What’s more, over half are victims of neglect or abuse. Because children in care aren’t given a voice, the public don’t know about the problems they face every day. Which is why it’s so important that their story is heard.

PALA is on a mission. A mission to put an end to poverty, to protect the planet and to enable all people to enjoy peace and prosperity.

It’s easy to say, but much harder to put into practice. They’ve started by putting this mission at the heart of everything they do. From the products they make, the materials they use, the business practices they employ and the partners they select to work with, they’re working hard to walk the talk.

They admit they’re not there yet, but ultimately, their goal is to create a business that puts people and the planet before profits and ethical and sustainable practices at the forefront of their operations.

A London-based tea company offering a variety of whole leaf tea blends as loose tea and in biodegradable tea pyramids along with a Chai Syrup for chai lattes, iced teas and chai cocktails! 

They are strong believers in creating positive change through business and provide employment to refugees to help them better integrate in the UK. Nemi Tea employ refugees to run tea stalls across London food markets, festivals, events and conferences which allows refugees to boost their English skills, regain confidence and work on skills required to enter the UK job market. They also employ them within our business to perform commercial roles including sales & marketing, events, packaging and distribution.

Nemi are solely impact driven and re-invest more than 50% of their profits back into their enterprise to help us achieve our social-impact goals.

One Elephant...One Idea. Supporting education in Africa and Asia.

Why do some children have the right to an education whilst others don't? By buying one of their products, they will donate a school kit to a child in Africa or Asia. Simple as that.

Elephant Branded aim to make a positive, long term, and sustainable change to the communities that produce their products and the children that receive their school kits. One Elephant...One Idea.

You buy one ethically made, recycled bag or related product and they will give one ergonomically designed school bag and kit to a child in Africa or Asia. Simple as that. Elephant Branded pay a fair, competitive wage to local villagers who make their bags out of locally sourced, recycled materials. Not only do they get a fair, reasonable wage but they also have the opportunity to learn valuable skills that permit them to have a sustainable, effective way to get out of poverty. Then they sell it to people like you. The Elephant has just stepped outside. Now we have to keep him there.

Hand stitched footballs creating employment opportunities for people in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia.

Sales from these balls support the running of social enterprises which help keep adults in employment, help children play, and raise health awareness through sport across Africa.

Since 2005 Elvis & Kresse have been rescuing raw materials, transforming them into luxury lifestyle accessories and donating 50% of profits back to charities.

In 2005 Elvis & Kresse had a chance encounter with the London Fire Brigade. When they learnt that London's damaged decommissioned hoses were headed to landfill they mounted a rescue. They set up Elvis & Kresse to save it. For over a decade none of London’s fire-hose has gone to landfill and over 170 tons of material has been reclaimed.

In 2017 the Burberry Foundation partnered with Elvis & Kresse to tackle the even greater global problem of leather waste. This Five-year partnership will see at least 120 tonnes of leather off-cuts from Burberry recrafted into new luxury items, designed and sold by Elvis & Kresse.

Award-winning flavours and positive social change, that’s us at Harry Specters. Mona, Shaz and their son Ash, who has autism, are behind this social enterprise. While visiting a chocolate shop on a holiday in Scotland in 2011, Mona discovered a perfect way of combining her passion for creating positive change for people with autism with her love for chocolate. Ash came up with the name and a year later, Harry Specters was born - dedicated to crafting the most delicious chocolates that create employment for young people with autism.

They are involved in every aspect of the business – from making and packaging the products to administration, design and photography. The chocolates have won numerous awards for their taste and hundreds of young people with autism have a brighter future. Every lovingly handcrafted bar and chocolate helps improve the lives of people with autism.

For every £1 of profit made at Harry Specters, Mona and Shaz decided that 60p would be set aside for furthering the social aims of the business, providing social activities for their invaluable employees as well as opportunities for their personal development.

Been London turn materials that would otherwise end up in land-fill into gorgeous things that you’ll want to use every day. Everything you see from their range has been something else in a previous life and is made by hand in their studio in London.

Their firm belief is that ethical products can look beautiful without costing the earth. This is why they search the world for the newest circular technologies and most sustainable solutions. 

They are a passionate bunch and want those landfill-bound materials to stick around so that you could hear their amazing stories.  

"What if socks could change the world?"

Stand4 started by this simple statement when founder Josh Turner said this amongst friends casually. A bold concept, but when you stop and think about it, most of us wear socks....and if each pair has a positive impact, then why can't socks change the world?

This is because socks are rarely donated, as we wear through them and wouldn't donate old smelly socks with holes - unlike old coats or shoes. Leading to lots of foot issues for the people most in need. They went out and created the most suitable sock for homeless people, donating a pair with each we sell.

Currently our socks support 11/17 of the sustainable development goals. Allowing you to stand for a different cause each day of the week. This is represented by a small cause logo on the ankle of the sock, from education to gender quality and much more. Your sock purchase could be powering a hospital, clearing landmines to planting trees!

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.

GlobalWAKEcup was born after old friends Buffie and Nick got together to reminisce about their time together in the music industry.

Nick says "Having put the world to rights, we got chatting about David Attenborough's now iconic Blue Planet II series and realised we both wanted to do something about the single-use plastic issue it raised... Along with Blue Planet and the film A Plastic Ocean, this fact gets us out of bed every single day" 

Each year 100 billion single-use coffee cups end up as landfill, that's enough to fill The Royal Albert Hall a 1000 times over

But with a problem this big, where do you start? The thinking behind what they do is part education and part real world solutions, backed up with 10% of profits going directly to their charity partners - The Marine Conservation Society. They believe small changes to our daily routine when multiplied across the globe can make a huge difference to our shared Oceans...... "It's only 1 plastic straw said 7.7 Billion people" is a line that has helped inform our thinking and also "If you can't reuse it , refuse it"..... In addition to the alternatives to single-use cups, bottles, straws and bags we offer, GlobalWAKEcup also get stuck in with beach cleans and promote initiatives like Plastic Free July. They are also planning some very special events with our new friends at The Royal Albert Hall and have talks, podcasts and workshops in the pipeline with some influential artists, musicians and actors all contributing their thoughts on sustainability and other environmental topics.

The UK Government estimates our total annual coffee cup waste equates to 30,000 tonnes and suggest that by 2025 more than 3.75 billion disposable cups could be used per year in the UK alone - staggering! What's worse is that of those 3.75B disposable coffee cups currently used, just 0.25 % are recycled. Our reusable WAKE products are made from sustainable, recyclable materials like farmed bamboo, stainless steel and double-walled glass. More and more of us are turning our backs on the throw-away society, so join the revolution by only choosing reusable.........WAKEcup and smell the coffee!

Page & Bloom are reinventing floristry with paper flowers, transformed from preloved books, maps and paper. Each of their flowers is individually hand made, transforming paper into stunning floral designs.

​Page & Bloom also has a social purpose. They are are a social enterprise created to provide fair employment and opportunities for women who have experienced domestic abuse. They work in partnership with domestic abuse charities, who refer women to us once they have moved on from a women's refuge. They provide free training to our makers, who are then paid to make the beautiful decorations we sell.

​Their handmade, sustainable decorations start out as paper that has come to the end of its original life. Rather than ending up in landfill or in a dusty attic, they give paper a new life as something beautiful. Their skilled designers and makers transform these raw materials into flowers. The magic happens with little more than scissors, glue, wire and a little bit of love and imagination.

Glow are pioneering a new expression of Ethical Ath-leisure accessories which champion style, safety and social impact.

As a Social Enterprise they innovate functional fashion, aiming to make high – vis accessories a part of your everyday wardrobe. Their adaptable accessories change with the wearers needs, providing night responsive, light reflecting accessories for the safety + style conscious city dweller.

Their range is fashionable in the day and functional at night.

Goodwash is not just their name it is their philosophy. They believe in luxury experiences that are good for you and your soul.

THE GOOD WASH MODEL:

1. Create jobs, employing people at risk of poverty on a living wage.
2. Sell luxury, Welsh wash brand, with natural ingredients from the land and sea
3. All profits go to the Goodwash foundation to fund projects that improve the lives of animals and people
4. Help cultivate a conscious consumer movement
5. Provide solutions for those wanting to do more, e.g volunteering and fundraising with a difference

Every time a Power A Life product is sold, they empower a child in a developing country with the gift of a solar light. These empowered kids can walk home safely from school, do their homework at night and have all got better grades as a result of the gift of light.

Power a Life started out as nothing more than an ambitious idea from two students whilst at uni. Jeremie and Stephen started building the company in a bedroom in Glasgow's South Side between lectures, until eventually it became their full time jobs.

From humble beginnings with a bold vision, Power a Life now sells the world's most empowering chargers and is positively changing school children's lives in some of the poorest countries in the world.

These biodegradable glitters and gels are used as tools to create, to express yourself, to be free and to inspire others to do the same. We want to look after the environment in style and have fun while we do it.

After launching online in November 2016, Disco Dust has grown from strength to strength, regularly seen across the catwalks of London and Milan Fashion week, in campaigns for Nike, and Bacardi Rum, on the drag queens of east London.

Each pot of biodegradable glitter is individually hand poured in the UK to guarantee perfection in every product and make all you disco lovers sparkle even more than you already do!

James Lucy is a social enterprise, and watches are the first in hopefully a large range of products that will generate money for them to donate to their panel of charities around the world. James Lucy endeavor to always donate AT LEAST 50% of their profits each year to charities, as voted for by their customers.The #Time4 campaign is one that they will be running across all of their social media handles to generate interest in the donations they will be giving. Each year, the proceeds will be donated to at least three charities.

Style with nothing to hide. Fairtrade and Organic ethical fashion for men and women. Know the Origin are committed to a 100% transparent production process.

Turtle Cup is on a mission to reduce plastic waste. In the UK alone, 2.5 billion coffee cups are thrown away each year. Many people believe that coffee cups are recycled. The reality is that just 1 in 400 coffee cups are recycled, and we want this to end. We LOVE our coffee, but we don’t want it to cost the earth!

They want to go a step further and walk-the-walk rather than just talk-the-talk. Thats why with every sale, they donate 50p to charities who’s mission it is to end single use plastic and clean up our oceans.

As well as this, Turtle Cup are a carbon neutral company. All of the carbon generated in the manufacturing process, and in the delivery of our cups to customers,  is offset through schemes and projects which reduce carbon output.

Our orders are handled by a fulfilment company called James & James, who are one of the only Soil Association-Certified fulfilment companies in the UK.

Kathaa is a contemporary, ethical fashion brand.  It is the brainchild of the charity Nepal Youth Foundation UK (NYF) in order to raise money for its projects which help women and children in Nepal.  100% of Kathaa’s profits go to NYF.

Kathaa’s clothing range has been made by beneficiaries of an NYF programme.  NYF freed these young women from childhood slavery and provided them with training in high-quality commercial tailoring.   By creating products for Kathaa, we are providing them with a way to financially support themselves and their families.

Ditch the plastic with these bamboo lunch boxes that are perfect for enjoying food on the go!

At BamBox, they’re on a mission to help rid the world of single-use plastics. That’s why they’ve created a stylish lunch box, made from bamboo (one of the world’s most sustainable materials!), so you can choose to reuse and enjoy your meals on the go.

Plus, with each lunch box sold, BamBox will be donating 25p to Friends of the Earth to support their efforts in fighting plastic pollution.

Cheeky + conscious babes on a mission to create healthier, eco-friendlier products that are affordable, accessible and adorable.

Call them high-maintenance, but Flo believe that what we put in our bodies should be as natural as possible and not horrible for the planet.

They also prefer our products like our partners:good-looking, straight-talking and reliable.

And if we can give back to our community at the same time? FLO-tastic.

What they're into:

- Natural, plant-based, biodegradable and hypoallergenic materials like organic cotton and organically-grown bamboo

- Comfort (silkiness, breathability!)

- Performance (no leaks, please!)

- Cheekiness (more sass, please!)

- Enthusiasm (we are a little bit extra!)

- Social justice: 5% of their profits go to charities like Orchid Project, who work to end female genital cutting (FGM).

They also donate menstrual products to fight period poverty in the UK through Red Box Project, who provide at schools for girls in need, and Bloody Good Period, who provide for asylum seekers and the homeless.

- Babe-Power (you're a total babe, and we believe in the power of you!)

Gung Ho are a London- based, ethical brand that’s on a mission to create fashion that means more.

Born out of an ambition to push boundaries in sustainable fashion, their collections are not just handmade locally using sustainable fabrics, but they also weave more meaning into the prints by illustrating particular environmental issues. That way, you can not only wear what you love, but what you believe in.

Each collection is centred on a cause, or 'Talking Point', with our current focus on the importance of insects and the impact of pesticides. That's why every garment comes with its very own dinky minizine to give you a few key facts and info on the issue at hand.

For every item sold they donate to a charity that works with the cause in question.