Local & Social Enterprise Suppliers
As we get ready to welcome you into Better Space we wanted to highlight some of the local social enterprises and purpose led businesses that inspire us and whom we’ve already worked with as suppliers.
Whatever business you work for, it’s the every day decisions we make to shop locally and source goods and services from purpose led businesses that can contribute to making a big positive societal impact and change over time.
At Better Space
Our members will be able to enjoy Tea by Nemi, an organisation providing employment to refugees through local work experience and job readiness skills; helping them integrate into broader society. Their tea is organic and fair trade and the bags are 100% biodegradable too! Check them out here.
With thanks to our neighbours LinkedIn, we’re also reusing some furniture that needed a new home; thanks for the kitchen tables and box seats LinkedIn!
Do-goody-bags
We put together some thank you gift bags for attendees at a recent event, all sourced from local and sustainable social enterprises.
This family-founded business makes delicious chocolates at the same time as creating employment opportunities for young people with autism. From making and packaging the products to administration, design and photography, this enterprise supports it’s young people to learn and live more independently . The chocolates have won numerous awards for their taste and hundreds of young people with autism have a brighter future!
Buy a pair of Leiho socks, and not only do you get to enjoy them for yourself, you also get to feel good about the fact that you’re donating another pair of socks to someone in need in the process. Made of environmentally-friendly bamboo, which is also super soft, Leiho socks work on the premise of buy one, give one! Joey and Thuta founded Leiho whilst studying at City, University of London and have been building their enterprise and impact through the City Ventures Launch Lab since!
This very cool enterprise offers a delicious range of drinks made using fair trade ingredients, that with every purchase, contributes a 5% donation to the Lemondaid and Charitea Foundation. So far they’ve raised more than $4 million, which goes back into supporting and sustaining the local communities from which the ingredients are grown.
Toast Ale is on a mission to cut climate change through reducing food waste, cutting down on water and land usages and fixing the food production system through it’s projects. This brewer is a Certified B Corporation and uses surplus bread that would otherwise go to waste, and avoids using virgin barley to brew it’s range of ales. Cheers to that!
Luminary Bakery, based in Chalk Farm and Hackney use baking as a tool to support women with employability and entrepreneurship, equipping them with transferable skills for the working world. They offer courses, work experience and paid employment within their bakery, empowering women to build their careers, whilst also making delicious cakes and bakes!
Keep an eye out for our Social Enterprise gift list and directory coming later this year. You can also shop on Social Supermarket to find purpose-led products for your cupboard!
We’d love to hear what your favourite products from social enterprises are! Tag us @betterspacelondon on Instagram or get in touch with us to share your ideas.
