Our Sustainability Policy
Sweet C’s Sustainability Commitment:
At Sweet C’s, sustainability is our guiding principle. We're dedicated to operating responsibly and sustainably, recognising our impact on customers, suppliers, communities, and the environment.
As a company, our commitments include:
1. Environmental Excellence: We strive for the highest environmental standards to minimise our footprint.
2. Social Contribution: We aim to maximise our positive impact on the communities in which we operate.
3. Supplier Standards: We hold our suppliers to the highest ethical and environmental standards.
4. Legal Compliance: We ensure strict compliance with all applicable legal, food hygiene, and health and safety requirements.
5. Integration of Responsibility: Social, ethical, and environmental responsibilities are incorporated into every aspect of our operations.
6. Governance Best Practices: We maintain a robust governance structure aligned with industry best practices.
What we have been doing to implement our sustainability policy:
1. Health, Safety, Wellbeing and Social Value:
Sweet C’s business ethos is driven by a desire to play our part in helping promote an inclusive and equitable economy. Along with our key supplier, we support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals which provides a blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet. As a company, we believe we have a responsibility to deliver social and environmental performance either directly or through our suppliers, alongside delivering excellence in the chocolates we make.
In sourcing our chocolate from Luker Chocolate in Colombia, we have a partner that shares the values we hold. We support 'The Chocolate Dream' where our chocolate purchases contribute to various community progreammes in Colombia. These include; helping to enhance the quality of life for farmers, providing education to local communities, protecting biodiversity, water and the forest.
In our local community we have partnered with The Grange at Bookham, who have made the 'Love Chocolate' Mugs that we sell on our website.
2. Transparency: We're committed to open and transparent disclosure of our operational performance and any wider impact on the environment, the communities and the markets in which we operate. We publish a report each year to address theprogress we are making to further our sustainability policy.
3. Environmental Management: We source our chocolate from Luker Chocolate, a company that we consider to be a responsible supplier. In September 2021, Luker signed its commitment with Race to Zero, a global UN campaign committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Their goal is to be net-zero in carbon emissions by 2030.
As of 2021, Luker Chocolate is carbon neutral across all owned operations, including its farms. Furthermore, as part of these efforts, Luker achieved a reduction of 52% in refrigerants CO2 emissions from 2020 to 2021, due to modifications made to chocolate production equipment. The next stage is for it to become carbon neutral with external suppliers by the end of 2022 and to achieve full compensation through certified carbon bonds resulting from it own farms carbon surplus.
We minimise our own environmental footprint by using packaging and labels that are either recyclable, compostable or biodegradable. All the packaging used by our suppliers is either re-used by ourselves or recycled.
We have recently upgraded one of our vehicles to electric to ensure local deliveries can be made in an nvironmentally friendly way.