INSPIRE
GIVING BACK
ALONGSIDE OUR OWN INITIATIVES, WE PARTNER WITH CHARITIES AND ORGANISATIONS WHO SHARE OUR COMMITMENT TO POSITIVE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.
EDUCATION
DAYLESFORD FOUNDATION
The Daylesford Foundation supports projects in the UK that educate children and young people in the core areas of organic food, growing and the countryside. To date the Foundation has distributed over £2 million in grants to schools and community groups, enabling the establishment of local fruit and vegetable gardens and encouraging outdoor education.
EVERYONE'S EVENLODE
This project connects children, young people and communities to their local stretch of the River Evenlode, teaching them how to care for and ecologically improve it. Daylesford works with the EE education team to deliver on-farm sessions for schools, making the link between farm, river and woodland environments and how we can work together to keep them healthy.
NATURE
BRITISH HEN WELFARE TRUST
When our hens retire from egg laying on the farm, each one is rehomed by the British Hen Welfare Trust. This year, the charity is celebrating the rehoming of their millionth hen, and Daylesford is proud to have rehomed over 14,000 birds with them since our partnership began in 2017.
FARMLAND BIRD AID NETWORK
Our supplementary feeding project at Daylesford farm supports the conservation of at-risk species of native farmland birds. We scatter birdseed daily through the cold months, helping farmland birds survive over winter and into spring, when they disperse to breed in healthier numbers. We donate 10% of profits from the sale of our bird egg chocolates to the Farmland Bird Aid Network, a local charity devoted to the conservation of farmland bird species.
THE ORCHARD PROJECT
A UK-based charity dedicated to planting and restoring traditional, community-managed orchards. Their mission is to ensure that anyone living in an urban community is within walking distance of an orchard, connecting them to their food, to nature and to each other. Daylesford is donating a proportion of the profits from hamper sales to supporting their essential work.
ZERO FOOD WASTE
THE FELIX PROJECT
The Felix Project helps to fight the serious problems of food waste and food poverty by redistributing fresh, nutritious surplus food to charities and schools to provide healthy meals for society's most vulnerable. Daylesford has been working with The Felix Project since 2016, donating surplus food from our farmshops and warehouses and running fundraising events. In 2019 a team of Daylesford colleagues raised over £40,000 for the charity by cycling 500km across Croatia.
CHIPPY LARDER
Based at Chipping Norton’s Guildhall, the Chippy Larder provides healthy food, clothing, mental health services and support to over 150 families each week. Their food shop is often stocked with surplus vegetables from Daylesford’s market garden or meals from the farm shop.
TOO GOOD TO GO
Too Good To Go is a user-friendly app through which consumers may “rescue” unsold food to take home themselves, preventing it from going to waste. Daylesford’s partnership with Too Good to Go started in 2020, and together they have saved 7,000 “magic bags” of surplus food, equivalent to a saving of 17 tonnes of CO2 associated with food waste emissions.
OUR SISTER CHARITIES
LADY BAMFORD CHARITABLE TRUST
The Lady Bamford Charitable Trust works in partnership with the government and local communities in India to improve education, help eradicate poverty, and support women & children.
NILA JAIPUR
Nila Jaipur is a cultural centre dedicated to preserving India’s natural dye and handloom textile traditions. Part of the Lady Bamford Foundation, Nila aims to share resources and knowledge, support sustainable design and celebrate craftsmanship.
UPCYCLING FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
CAMARA
All of our electrical waste such as old computer equipment is collected by Camara, who refurbish and sell on what they can to generate much needed funds for education projects in Africa. Giving children access to computers and improved teaching and learning facilities transforms their education, all whilst reducing waste and emissions here in the UK.
RECORKED
As a drinks business we produce a lot of wine corks. The team at Recorked take corks from businesses all over the UK and resell them, generating funds for their own nominated charities which currently include safe water and sanitation, social growing enterprises and local nature recovery.