We will continue to pioneer a sustainable future for tea by driving consumer demand for quality, by directly sourcing single garden, single origin fully traceable tea.
We source the highest quality teas from the best producers we know and pay the high prices their quality commands. By cutting out the middlemen, our model enables more of the money to go directly go directly to tea makers and their communities.
We are a Living Wage certified employer for our own UK operations. We are working with the ETP and wider industry to establish a living wage throughout the tea supply chain.
Ensuring that all direct producers and their workers in our tea & herbal supply chain earn at least a living wage or income. (The target relates to our organisation playing its part by doing/paying additional to cover our part of the living wage/income gap based on the volume we purchase from the producer)
We're committed to building strong relationships with our producers, and engaging with them and their communities on tackling societal and environmental issues that are important to both them and us.
Defining supplier engagement programme and associated goals by 2025.
Support 2 community projects in our key sourcing regions by 2025.
A few years ago, we decided to source organic teas and herbals wherever possible. Sustainable practices such as organic and regenerative farming can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make tea gardens more resilient to climate change. We have also noticed that they tend to go hand in hand with better tasting tea. Prioritising teas grown in this way also reduces the carbon emissions associated with our tea as 75% of carbon emissions in tea production are from chemical fertilizers.
We take a dual stamp approach, meaning our teas are either Soil Association Certified Organic or JING stamp ‘Made Without Pesticides’.
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Continue the roll out of both Soil Association Certified Organic and JING stamp “Made Without Pesticides.”
80% of our range to have one of these stamps by the end of 2024.
For progress on our goals and commitments.