Our Brands

Bebemoss creates handcrafted stuffed animal toys and provides underprivileged mothers in Turkey with dignified work that enables them to lift their families out of poverty and keep their children in school. The toys are hand crocheted from local, organic certified cotton yarn, stuffed with hypoallergenic polyfill made from recycled bottles, and tested to meet international quality and safety standards. Bebemoss employs over 120 women in need in the Istanbul metro area including refugees from Syria and Afghanistan. They offer fair trade wages, job training, flexible work schedules, a studio with a play area for children, a supportive community, and opportunities for professional development. The women are able to work at their own pace and balance other responsibilities. Bebemoss is part of Sector7, a social enterprise that also offers product development and manufacturing services to other brands. They reinvest 60 percent of profits to grow the business and employ more mothers in need and distribute the remaining 40 percent equally between all women that are part of the initiative. Bebemoss partners with UNHCR's MADE51 and is a member of Social Enterprise Community of Practice, Meaningful Business Community, Common Objective, and Nest Artisan Guild. They are a provisional member of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO).

Bedspace Guesthouse and Kitchen specializes in great space, creative food, and responsible business practices. They invest in building local staff and local suppliers. Team members receive healthcare, life insurance, time off for community service, free language tuition, reimbursement for any external education course regardless of subject, and employee ownership options. Bedspace Kitchen sources 95 percent of their ingredients locally, primarily from farmers and food companies that they have incubated and helped grow. Organic ingredients are used whenever possible. Bedspace donates monthly to two local animal charities, fully sponsors an IT training lab at a local school, and contributes to beach cleanups.

BeeBee & Leaf was started to reduce plastic waste and food waste by providing a natural, sustainable, and compostable alternative to single-use plastic clingfilm. Their original wraps are made from organic cotton and a special blend of beeswax, tree resin and organic jojoba oil that provides the perfect amount of grip to wrap food and keep it fresh. They also have a line of vegan food wraps made with sumac and rice bran waxes. All of the materials break down in a home compost heap and return to nature with no toxic residue. BeeBee Wraps are made by hand in Cambridge using local beeswax from the surrounding beekeeping community.

Beebytes provides genetic testing and analytic services for honey bees, other pollinators, and their environment to maintain healthy bee populations and support biodiversity conservation and environmental protection. They aim to give beekeepers more control over the types of honey bees kept in their apiaries and enable them to select preferred stock themselves without importing queen bees, which carries a risk of introducing new pests and diseases. Beebytes offers single colony analysis and apiary analysis to assess the genetic mix of native bees and imported bees; whole genome sequencing and honey bee microbiome testing to assess lineage, bee health, beneficial microbes, and pathogens; and genetic analysis of pollen in honey and in the environment to assess forage and habitat diversity. Beebytes is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) and a member of Social Enterprise UK.

BeeEco supplies plastic-free reusable products to cafes, charter boats, and other wholesale buyers. They offer coconut bowls, bamboo straws, and other sustainably sourced natural alternatives to disposable single-use plastic items. BeeEco participates in community events, speaks about environmental issues, blogs about plastic-free travel, and collaborates with other like-minded enterprises to raise awareness and minimize waste. They contribute to Sea Shepherd Tasmania.

Bee Green was started as a pedagogical farm to provide education on local organic agriculture. Their mission is offer organic products for better health, protect the environment, and provide nature experience for kids. Bee Green cultivates fruits, vegetables, leafy greens, and medicinal plants and is developing a forest area. They have 11.5 acres verified under the local organic participatory guarantee system (PGS).

Beej is an accessories design studio that aims to make sustainability a mainstream fashion choice. They specialize in handcrafting bags, wallets, belts, and other accessories from natural, plant-based alternatives to leather and pleather. Materials, hardware, patterns, packaging, and suppliers are all selected with environmental impact in mind. Beej uses sustainably sourced cork, Piñatex from pineapple fiber, Desserto from nopal cactus fiber, Khesh from handwoven recycled sarees, and small scraps of recycled leather from REACH compliant factories. Lining fabrics and zippers are made from recycled materials, products are crafted on demand to minimize inventory and waste, and packaging is designed to be plastic free and zero waste. Dust bags are made from jute and information materials are printed on plantable seed paper. Beej partners with businesses that have shared values and a shared commitment to social and environmental responsibility. For every purchase, they work with GrowTrees to plant a tree as part of a mangrove restoration initiative in the Sunderban area of eastern India.

Beeja Botanicals creates handcrafted personal care products that consider the wellbeing of the user, the community, and the environment. They are committed to making sustainable, ethical, and effective self care more affordable while also fairly compensating people for materials and labor. A measure of success in balancing affordability and fair compensation is that their employees and partners are able to afford Beeja Botanicals for their own use. The majority of the ingredients in their lip balms, hand creams, and body butters are sustainably harvested from the wild forests surrounding Sirsi in the Western Ghats and extracted by hand using ancestral knowledge and techniques. Through this value addition, they help local Adivasi communities sustain traditional livelihoods. Beeja Botanicals uses packaging that is compostable, recyclable, reusable, or returnable.

Beejon produces small-batch, Dijon-style honey mustard and vinaigrette and supports local food systems. They celebrate fermented foods and the importance of honey bees. Beejon sells through local farmers markets and retailers and is part of Slow Food Phoenix.

Bee Loved Honey supplies pure African honey that empowers people in disadvantaged rural communities, stimulates local economies, and restores honey bee populations. South Africa currently imports more than 4,000 tons of honey from China and other countries with little information on purity and quality. Bee Loved Honey is mobilizing and developing sustainable value chains for high quality African honey. They manufacture affordable hives, provide beekeeping training for small-scale farmers, purchase honey through consistent offtake agreements, and retail pure unadulterated honey under the Bee Loved brand. Beekeeping has a low barrier to entry and with proper market channels can provide consistent, reliable income for rural farmers. Bee Loved Honey has launched a campaign to manufacture one million beehives by 2025 and distribute them across the continent for economic empowerment and environmental renewal.

BEEN London creates beautiful everyday accessories from materials that would otherwise end up in landfill. Their bags are designed to minimize cutting floor waste and handmade in London from recycled leather. The linings and zippers are made from recycled plastic bottles, and the packaging is made from recycled and recyclable paper. The finished product is delivered by Camden Society, a London-based social enterprise that trains people with learning disabilities and handles logistics.

Bee's Badulla uses local fruits and vegetables to create value-added products, prevent food waste, and support low-income women in Sri Lanka's hill country. They produce homemade jams, pickles, spicy banana chips, ginger sweets, and other natural foods. Bee's Badulla is a women-led community enterprise.

Bees specializes in all-natural cakes and sweets that are healthier and better for the environment. They use whole grain flours, natural sweeteners, and source from local farmers and organic producers whenever possible. Fresh produce like ginger, lime, lemon, wild mandarin and rose apple come from their own organic home garden. Vegan, eggless, sugar-free and gluten-free cakes can be made to order. Bees minimizes their environmental impact by reducing, reusing and recycling waste and ensuring that all packaging materials are biodegradable.

Belipola was started in 1983 as a research and training center for analog forestry. At the time, Belipola was an abandoned tea estate with tall grasses, old tea bushes, and degraded soil. Using knowledge of systems ecology, keystone species, edge effects, and creative design, the team worked to restore the land along the model of a traditional Sri Lankan forest garden. Today, Belipola operates as a social enterprise with residential training facilities, workshops, courses, and tours. The local team produces forest garden jams, dried herbs, and other value added products under the Uva Forest Garden brand. Belipola is certified under an organic participatory guarantee system.

Belipola Herbs is an organic herb garden in Sri Lanka's hill country that aims to develop sustainable livelihoods for rural people and protect vulnerable environments through ecosystem restoration. They offer avocado, cherry tomatoes, sun dried basil, rosemary, thyme, oregano, lemon balm, orange bergamot, stevia, and a range of mint varieties. Belipola Herbs is helping develop an analog forestry network in their local area. They are verified under a local organic participatory guarantee system (PGS).

Bellafricana is a tech-enabled community that includes thousands of African creative entrepreneurs focusing on fashion, art, beauty, home and living, and food. They raise the visibility of members through an online directory, media partners, social platforms, and events, increase sales through an online marketplace, exhibitions, and connections with buyers, and build capacity through online tools, resources, courses, master classes, and a network of experts and mentors. Bellafricana also organizes the annual ACE Awards to celebrate creativity and innovation in Africa. By helping start, grow, and scale sustainable businesses, they benefit creative entrepreneurs, their families, their teams, and their communities. Bellafricana contributes to Health Emergency Initiative (HEI) to cover emergency medical expenses for people in need.

Bella Nilaveli offers accommodation, vegetarian food, healthy juices, and yoga on Nilaveli beach in Trincomalee. Their yoga shala can be used for retreats and stand up paddle boards are available for SUP yoga. Bella Nilaveli is committed to practices that benefit the community and the environment. They train and hire people from Nilaveli and provide support to their families as needed. They are also working with a family in Anuradhapura to develop an organic farm. Bella Nilaveli grows fruits and vegetables onsite, sources local ingredients and supplies, avoids plastic, provides free drinking water in refillable containers, and organizes local beach cleanups with nearby hotels and the surrounding community.

Belle Detroit Creative Solutions provides creative services to nonprofits, social enterprises, and purpose-driven companies. They help clients bring mission to the forefront of their message and engage customers, employees, and supporters through quality copywriting, graphic design, web design, branding, marketing, workplace consulting, social media, communications, and curated design. As a social enterprise, Belle Detroit focuses on bringing diversity to the design ecosystem and creating equitable revenue opportunities in Detroit. They offer income-limited mothers 12 weeks of free digital skills training, free onsite childcare, and a path to employment and worker-ownership. Belle Detroit is committed to ethical and transparent practices and wants to use the voices and talents of underserved mothers to help the world's most passionate organizations have a greater impact.

Bellybees was started by young parents to make natural infant and toddler food more convenient and accessible in Sri Lanka. They worked with leading pediatricians to develop a healthy, locally sourced alternative to imported brands and supplied it islandwide through supermarkets and home delivery. Bellybees has since expanded their product range to include educational toys, children's clothing made locally from natural materials, and food and beverage options for the whole family. They offer vegetable and fruit juices, iced tea, king coconut water, relishes and spreads, baking mixes, soups, and infused oils with no added colors, flavors, or preservatives. Glass bottles and other recyclable packaging materials are prioritized. Bellybees provides livelihood opportunities for women and has a fully female workforce. They supply food products and books to underprivileged children and donate to support early childhood education.

Belu offers British mineral water, tonics, mixers, and filter systems and invests all profits towards reducing carbon emissions, supporting water stewardship projects, working towards a circular economy, and bringing clean water, decent toilets, and good hygiene to everyone everywhere. Their natural still and sparkling mineral water is sourced in Wales, never exported, and packed in bottles made locally from lightweight recycled glass or 100 percent recycled plastic. Their tonics and mixers are made with sustainably sourced ingredients and lower-than-average sugar. Belu encourages people to choose tap or filtered water when possible. For hospitality businesses and workplaces, they offer premium filtration systems for still, sparkling, cold, chilled, and hot water, branded refillable bottles, and regular maintenance services. Refill systems reduce carbon emissions, waste, storage requirements, and costs. Belu was carbon neutral according to PAS 2060 standards for 10 years. They have now shifted their focus from offsets and certification to carbon management and reduction. Belu contributes 100 percent of net profits to WaterAid and other impact partners using unrestricted funding models. They are an accredited Living Wage Employer and a member of Social Enterprise UK.