Welcome to AVOVE

May 2022

Thank you for choosing Ethstat for your wonderful AVOVE Welcome Packs.

We hope you love the message behind this procurement.

Your AVOVE pack was made with love by a social enterprise who’s profits are helping to give employment to the homeless and former prisoners.

What’s in your pack? A beautiful bag, light enough to use for your fruit and vegetable weighing or as a handy bag to store your stationery and important belongings. Your AVOVE pen, that can be planted after use – helping to save a tonne of CO2! Some refreshing mints, in a handy reusable tin. Your keyring, that doubles up as a useful trolley token. And who doesn’t love a bit of chocolate. Enjoy! This work is giving employment to 5 homeless people. It’s also all sustainable and sourced locally.

Thank you for choosing Ethstat for your wonderful AVOVE Welcome Packs.

We hope you love the message behind this procurement.

Your AVOVE Bag is made in India by a cooperative that gives women highly pack was made with love by a social enterprise who’s profits are helping to give employment to the homeless and former prisoners.

What’s in your pack? A beautiful bag, light enough to use for your fruit and vegetable weighing or as a handy bag to store your stationery and important belongings. Your AVOVE pen, that can be planted after use – helping to save a tonne of CO2! Some refreshing mints, in a handy reusable tin. Your keyring, that doubles up as a useful trolley token. And who doesn’t love a bit of chocolate? Enjoy! This work is giving employment to 5 homeless people. It’s also all sustainable and sourced locally.

This Procurement Was Social:

This Procurement Was Social:

Hours Of Living Wage Employment
%
Social Value
Hot meals for the homeless
0
Chocolate Boxes Donated to Homeless Shelter
Homeless People Accessed Work
%
Plastic Free & Climate Positive

Whats in the pack

Divine Chocolate

fairtrade chocolate goodness

Divine are a female-led social enterprise that supports predominantly female Coco farmers through fair trade, education, and environmental support.  Divine chocolate has been palm-oil free since 2013 and has taken a leadership role in conserving the rainforest areas of West Africa

In the early 1990s, changes in the cocoa market in Ghana prompted Nana Frimpong Abebrese (Divines founder) to begin creating a farmer-owned company to help farmers sell their cocoa. Nana was a visionary farmer representative and independent representative of COCOBOD (a Ghanaian government-controlled institution that fixes the buying price for cocoa in Ghana).

Nana and a group of other farmers found ways to ensure the company’s net gains would belong to farmers.  Nana guaranteed that farmers would be paid in cash, and fair trade premiums could be invested in social programs.

This bar demonstrates the best of ethical chocolate for you to share with your family!

Your welcome to AVOVE pack

Whats in the pack

Divine Chocolate

fairtrade chocolate goodness

 

Divine are a female-led social enterprise that supports predominantly female Coco farmers through fair trade, education, and environmental support.  Divine chocolate has been palm-oil free since 2013 and has taken a leadership role in conserving the rainforest areas of West Africa

In the early 1990s, changes in the cocoa market in Ghana prompted Nana Frimpong Abebrese (Divines founder) to begin creating a farmer-owned company to help farmers sell their cocoa. Nana was a visionary farmer representative and independent representative of COCOBOD (a Ghanaian government-controlled institution that fixes the buying price for cocoa in Ghana).

Nana and a group of other farmers found ways to ensure the company’s net gains would belong to farmers.  Nana guaranteed that farmers would be paid in cash, and fair trade premiums could be invested in social programs.

This bar demonstrates the best of ethical chocolate for you to share with your family!

Your welcome to Avove pack

Ethstat Tree Pen

Plant a pen save a tonne

Originally designed for and used to sign the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio that laid the groundwork for the fight against Climate Change – our Ethstat Tree Pen is made in Europe from bio-cornstarch and recycled paper and is 100% biodegradable. Once you’ve used it you can plant it and grow a tree and save up to one tonne of CO2 for every pen you use.

Our Ethstat Tree Pen is unique to us here in the UK and we are the only distributors. Having worked tirelessly for over 6 months to create it, we think this pen is a gamechanger. Most plastic pens are made from single use plastic and many are unrecyclable. If you think about just how many pens we get through during the working week alone, the carbon footprint attributed to them is alarming and unnecessary.  

Fairtrade Cotton Bag

helping whole communities

The AVOVE Bag is made in India by a cooperative that gives women highly paid work, in line with our own Higher Living Wage. It is almost the exact opposite of the stereotypes you would have of far eastern garment making. Instead, this factory is sustainable, ethical and compliant with the highest levels of certification. 

The factory is more than just a place of work; it is at the centre of a community. The wages allow the women that work there the opportunity to support their children throughout their schooling and live a decent life.  

Ethstat Tree Pen

Plant a pen save a tonne

Originally designed for and used to sign the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio that laid the groundwork for the fight against Climate Change – our Ethstat Tree Pen is made in Europe from bio-cornstarch and recycled paper and is 100% biodegradable. Once you’ve used it you can plant it and grow a tree and save up to one tonne of CO2 for every pen you use.

Our Ethstat Tree Pen is unique to us here in the UK and we are the only distributors. Having worked tirelessly for over 6 months to create it, we think this pen is a gamechanger. Most plastic pens are made from single use plastic and many are unrecyclable. If you think about just how many pens we get through during the working week alone, the carbon footprint attributed to them is alarming and unnecessary.  

Fairtrade Cotton Bag

helping whole communities

The AVOVE Bag is made in India by a cooperative that gives women highly Bag is made in India by a cooperative that gives women highly paid work, in line with our own Higher Living Wage. It is almost the exact opposite of the stereotypes you would have of far eastern garment making. Instead, this factory is sustainable, ethical and compliant with the highest levels of certification. 

The factory is more than just a place of work; it is at the centre of a community. The wages allow the women that work there the opportunity to support their children throughout their schooling and live a decent life.  

Social Impact in action