Storimarket is a social enterprise you should know about. Their website allows you to buy direct from smallholder farmers and ethical food producers in Africa, which not only betters the lives of farmers and their families, but allows them to continue to farm in a way that is good for the environment and their community. Storimarket was founded in 207 by Tom …
Tessa Cook & Saasha Celestial-One are the founders of OLIO, a free app tackling the problem of food waste by connecting neighbours with each other, and with local shops & cafes so that surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. Based in the UK and founded in 2015, OLIO proves that whilst food sharing with a neighbour via an app …
With the launch of the Government’s Mission Led Business Review at the end of last year, businesses came into 2017 with one big question on their minds – why? Six months into the year, Virgin StartUp Ambassador and Coconut Chilli founder, Navina Bartlett explores how brands that pit profit against purpose risk losing out in the new business world. …
Jake’s Boost is a health food startup producing 100% natural nut and seed butters with no additives- free from refined sugar, salt, dairy, gluten or palm oil. If you attended university (college), did you find it useful in starting a business? I went to the Judge Business School at Cambridge University to study for a diploma in Entrepreneurship. Dan …
“Challenges come in plenty! Strangely though so does one’s grit in breaking through. When I know there isn’t anywhere else to go but up, I rise & get to work.” Sarah Todd was discovered as a model and moved to Australia at the age of eighteen and spent the next ten years globe-trotting, walking the runway and shooting photo spreads …
25-year-old Social Entrepreneur, Zobaida Falah has leveraged TOMS one-for-one model to create The CURE Bar, a natural, no preservatives, no sugar snack bar. It’s a durable healthy snack that anyone can enjoy to replace starchy,fat filled snacks. They also include an ingredient that has never been used in the snack bar industry before – the black seed. For every CURE bar sold, …
Mary McGrath is the CEO of FoodCycle, which runs volunteer-powered community projects across the UK – working to reduce food poverty and social isolation by serving tasty, nutritious meals to vulnerable groups. They are an award-winning social enterprise and recently won Ashoka’s Makers of More challenge. What was the inspiration behind tackling food wastage and the food poverty problem? We throw …