No Poverty

Bee A Keeper

Dilmah Conservation launched ‘Bee a Keeper’ in May 2020, to promote the sustainable use of bees in agriculture and related ecosystems. Its main goals are: • Bee Awareness • Bee Research • Beekeeping • Buzzing Livelihood At One Earth Centre Moratuwa, conducted, • A public workshop on beekeeping with field experience for 22 participants • A training for Internal staff on advanced beekeeping • 2 additional workshops on beekeeping At the Field Station, Endane, • 10 successful beekeepers • 3 are undergoing the training process • A workshop for village beekeepers. • 2 litres of bee honey extracted In Climate Change Research Center, Nawalapitiya • 16 successful beekeepers • 12 are undergoing the training process • 1 workshop with 15 participants. • 3 litres of bee honey extracted for research purposes. • 2 day residential workshop for Resplendent Ceylon staff. In One Earth Center, Kalkudah • Community workshop on beekeeping with 45 participants around the center. • A workshop for the Veddah community to raise awareness on unsustainable bee honey extraction from the forest (traditional practice) and help transition into sustainable beekeeping using bee boxes in Mallichchagani and Akaranai villages with 92 participants.

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Afforest Underwater

Part of the ongoing “Afforest Underwater '' initiative, Dilmah Conservation initiated a pilot project in collaboration with the National Aquaculture Development Authority (NAQDA) to educate fishermen in Mannar, Northern Province of Sri Lanka on practising sustainable seaweed farming with a view to addressing challenges such as overfishing and fish migration due to warmer waters. As an extension of the project, Dilmah also supported the Bocuse d'Or Sri Lanka 2023, a culinary competition where 28 teams from hotels and resorts across Sri Lanka competed for the coveted Gold award, with the goal of representing Sri Lanka in the Regional competitions. Sustainably harvested seaweed through the aforementioned pilot project was used as an ingredient throughout the competition.

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One Earth Centre, Kalkudah

The One Earth Centre in Kalkudah extends Dilmah Conservation's initiatives into Eastern Sri Lanka. This centre is aligned with Dilmah Conservation’s regional objectives of enhancing livelihood opportunities and building climate resilience among communities through the introduction of innovative, sustainable and climate smart practices in agriculture and animal husbandry along with comprehensive livelihood support and ecosystem restoration efforts. Similar to the Moratuwa facility, the Kalkudah complex also contains a One Earth Urban Arboretum as well as an organic fruit and vegetable model farm and a model coconut farm.

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One Earth Field Station, Endane

This Centre promotes nature-based agriculture, where tea plants are uprooted to facilitate restoration of a depleted ecosystem. Apart from this direct activity, the centre has adopted a multi-stakeholder approach to further strengthen restoration efforts. The centre also provides opportunities for local community members to gain a deeper understating of sustainability principles by getting involved in various activities such as nursery management, organic farming, and beekeeping.

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Genesis - A centre for Sustainability

Dilmah launched Genesis, the Dilmah Centre for a Sustainable Future, located at 52 Maligawatte Road. This facility represents the evolution of the premises where Dilmah was first tasted, selected, packed, and exported. Genesis is equipped with the necessary amenities to help agri or nature-based entrepreneurs and agritech startups build their businesses from the ground up. As a collaborative platform, Genesis facilitates knowledge sharing, discussion, inspiration, and communication. The Centre aims to grow awareness of the importance of nature, its value, and ecosystem services. This is achieved by harnessing the knowledge and commitment of academia and scientists, alongside the ability and network of businesses and policymakers. Moreover, Genesis directly nurtures sustainable agricultural entrepreneurship, promoting better social, economic, and gender equality. 25 individuals have been benefitted thus far, through all projects done under Genesis.

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Lost Ingredients Lab

Kick-off project at Genesis was a platform to integrate value chains of Sri Lankan organic and regenerative agriculture and food sectors through innovation and collaboration for meaningful growth. The Lost Ingredients Lab was a two-pronged programme that helped innovate value-additions for three high-potential yet underutilized local ingredients, namely, Jackfruit, Seaweed, and Gotukola, making them suitable for the global market. Collaborated with GIZ, European Union and Good Life X.

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The Scale - Up Shop

The Scale-Up Shop aimedto spark innovation in the Sri Lankan manufacturing and export sector by connecting local innovators with manufacturers seeking to expand their product portfolios and enter international markets. It was carried out as part of the 'Support to Small and Medium Enterprises in the Organic Agriculture Sector' Programme jointly co-financed by the European Union (EU) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) in collaboration with the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Dilmah Tea, Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB), National Innovation Agency (NIA) and Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC).

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Womens' Development Programme

The Women’s Development Program (WDP) was established to empower marginalised women and young girls with skills development and entrepreneurship training. The WDP is active across Sri Lanka at the Moratuwa, Kalkudah and Weligama Centers empowering 1400+ women with vocational skills to pursue their goals.

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Vocational Training Programme

Vocational training provided for nearly 7,000 youth in carpentry, dress making, IT and graphics. In their efforts to inspire female youth entrepreneurs, the MJF Center, Kalkudah launched a beauty culture program for young women. In just 6 months, the course has graduated 25 young women who are makeup artists and salon owners. Their new Aari work embroidery and needlework course has also graduated 60 young women with the skills to become professional designers and seamstresses.

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People's Market - Small Entrepreneur Programme

The People's market falls within the scope of the Small Entrepreneur Program. It was initiated in the aftermath of COVID-19 to help revive small enterprises and support individuals who were made unemployed by the pandemic. Today the Peoples Market takes place every quarter at the Moratuwa or Weligama Centers. Each market supports up to 100 small businesses, female-led enterprises and entrepreneurs with disabilities. The Markets attract a footfall between 700 to 1700 shoppers, allowing small enterprises to grow their networks.

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Empowering Plantation Community

Meeting the needs & demands of a resident population of 155,000 in the plantation community through updated infrastructure and facilities. 131 young beneficiaries supported through Scholarships; 88 university undergraduates, 32 of our beneficiaries are university graduates. Gifting of a passbook savings account to over 40 newborns of plantation employees.

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Enbacci Skincare

i=Change Partnership

In 2022, Enbacci partnered with i=Change. An organisation that helps e-commerce businesses support a range of local or global projects. A minimum of $1 from every online purchase is donated towards one of three projects of the brands choice. The three projects we support are Empower with Literacy, Protect a Woman and Clean the Seas. Through just these three projects, we are supporting a number of the UN sustainability development goals.

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Enbacci Skincare

Protect A Woman

As part of our partnership with i=Change, one of the projects we support is Protect a Woman. The Women's Community Shelters experienced a 25% increase in inquiries for safe accommodation for women and children who are homeless or escaping domestic violence during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Existing services were already at full capacity, with more than 50% of women seeking shelter turned away due to a lack of beds. Across Australia, around 56,000 women are homeless each night, many with young children. Now, there are many more. Women unable to access shelters are left vulnerable, and disconnected from community and support networks. Women’s Community Shelters is dedicated to providing women and children with a safe place to stay and an opportunity to rebuild their lives. $50 provides a hot meal and a safe, comfortable place to stay for one night.

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B Corp Certified

B Corp Certification confirmed that our community and the environment are stakeholders in our impact-driven business model and our commitment to balancing social and planetary good in everything we do against the highest standards of transparency and accountability. We are now part of a global network of businesses shifting our global economy from a system that profits few to one that benefits all.

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Evidence

Ethical Manufacturing

The garment workers that make our products are paid 60% above the living wage, by a BSCI certified factory that uses solar to help power their manufacturing. We also do regular factory visits and assessments of systems to ensure good working conditions.

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Indigenous Collaboration

We're deeply concerned about the unfair treatment and displacement of Indigenous people from their land. At Underwear for Humanity, we believe it's our duty to give back, so we contribute 50 cents from every sale to support Indigenous programs on the lands where we live and work. Our recent initiative included sponsoring a youth Culture Camp with $9,000 from our collection, run by Country as Teacher, a Bundjalung organisation that helps young people celebrate and connect.

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Plastic Free Packaging

At Underwear for Humanity, our commitment to sustainability extends to our packaging. We've minimized packaging size to conserve natural resources, using recycled kraft board and vegetable-based inks, eliminating the need for fossil fuel-derived inks and completely avoiding plastic. Our products are transferred into recycled kraft pick boxes and shipped in small, compostable mailers, ensuring that every aspect of our delivery process upholds our environmental values.

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One-for-one Underwear Donation

We believe that access to clean, new underwear is a fundamental human right, essential for maintaining dignity. Sadly, underwear poverty exists in Australia, and we are committed to addressing this through our one-for-one program—donating a pair of underwear for every item sold. We are incredibly proud of the impact our one-for-one campaign has made. And it became even more powerful on day when we discovered surplus elastic destined for landfill at one of our factories. Now, we utilise deadstock materials like leftover elastic and fabric from other orders to produce the underwear we donate, each pair unique. Our relationship with the factory producing our donation underwear spans over a decade, built on mutual trust and a commitment to sustainability. They consistently use BCI and organic cotton and non-toxic Oeko-Tex certified dyes to ensure the fabrics are safe. We donate to Aboriginal Health Centres, women's shelters, and homelessness charities.

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Pre-loved Bras - creating positive change

Second-hand bras and crops that are in good wearable condition are sorted through our warehouse pick and pack training program and donated to women in need via the charity Support the Girls.

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Evidence

Mattress recycling program

Snooze supports the RecyleMyMattress program – Recycle My Mattress works with manufacturers, retailers and social impact recyclers to help dispose of mattresses responsibly. This is a consumer facing organisation.

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Snooze Responsible Business Journey

Snooze is developing a Responsible Business Journey to ensure strategies are in place to improve our sustainable, social and environmental credentials.

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SoftLanding

SoftLanding is a social enterprise company which provides employment to people otherwise experiencing barriers to employment. SoftLanding picks-up mattresses and bases directly from outside your home address for a fee. They keep mattresses and bases from landfill as they recover components to recycle.

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UN Global

Snooze is pleased to announce we have joined the United Nations Global Compact initiative - a voluntary leadership platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible business practices.

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Underworks

Our Roadmap to 2030

Rather than telling a customer that a product is more sustainable, we would like to increase awareness amongst consumers on why they are choosing a particular product, based upon actively assessing the product’s fibre composition, the labour conditions, and its environmental impact. The customer is making a choice purchase a product that has been made using preferred fibres, better packaging, has high environmental standards and like all of our products is ethically manufactured. Our Products carrying this label will be produced using sustainable materials and packaging and with high social and environmental manufacturing standards.

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Underworks

Pillar 3 - Ethical Production

Our workplaces in Australia and China are regularly audited for ethical and safe work practices and they have been for 24 years. We have a zero-tolerance policy for child and forced labour and hold our manufacturers to very strict standards regarding award wages, overtime payments and providing a safe and humane place to work. As part of our ethical sourcing program all the factories we work with are regularly audited. This assures that our factories can be held accountable for worker wellbeing. In addition to, having to meet the standards set by our customers who sell our products, they must also pass audits of the recommended well-established global social compliance programs and be compliant with local law, whichever stricter. These social responsibility frameworks include SEDEX, WRAP and Amfori BSCI. To pass these audits, factories must comply with various stringent standards in the areas of labour rights and working conditions and health and safety and incorporate Conventions from the International Labour Organization. We only work with factories that respect their employees, pay living wages and provide a safe and fair place to work.

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Evidence

Sustainable Choice Group

Wages and Benefits

By paying all our employees a living wage and offering the best benefits that we can afford, Sustainable Choice addresses SDGs 1 (no poverty), 2 (zero hunger), 3 (good health and well-being), 8 (decent work and economic growth), 10 (reduced inequalities), and 11 (sustainable cities and communities).

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made by Fressko

Partnership with Cafe Smart

made by Fressko are proud to partner with CafeSmart, a coffee-industry led event that runs during Homelessness Week. It unites roasters, cafes and coffee enthusiasts around the country to fight homelessness and support those at risk in their local area. made by Fressko is contributing to this partnership by donating $2.50 of every Limited Edition Smiley Cup (Camino) order to Cafe Smart.

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Good360 Everyone Day - People and Planet Campaign

Good360 Australia is on a mission to raise funds that will enable us to deliver $1 billion worth of brand-new goods to meet the growing needs of communities across Australia, while also reducing waste in our environment. To help achieve our mission, Good360 has created a unique fundraising event called EveryOne Day. The proceeds raised from EveryOne Day go towards supporting over 4,250 charities and disadvantaged schools Australia-wide, by providing brand-new essential goods such as clothing, toiletries, mattresses and toys. EveryOne Day began in October 2023 and will continue to run annually in October to achieve grand social and environmental goals. If you are a business focused on sustainability with social impact, please join us today at https://good360.org.au/everyone-day/get-involved/

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Local Store Donation Program

In 2018, we pioneered the Local Store Donation Program to connect the unsold brand new goods of retail stores with local Not for Profits and schools. Working with our partner Big W we connected with 183 stores with more than 300 not- for-profits and disadvantaged schools who received over 3M brand new items including toys, clothing, household and electrical goods. This program continues to grow and we have partnered with other big retail brands including Best & Less and Jeans West, connecting goods to local charities and schools where the retail staff work and live.

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Disaster Recovery strategic response

We launched our Disaster Recovery strategic response after the cycle of back-to-back disasters began with the 2019 Black Summer bushfires. Our campaign helped get the right goods, to the right people, at the right time throughout all stages of a disaster providing hope and dignity to communities adversely impacted.

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