If goodies are unavoidable, choose eco-friendly or sustainable options (recyclable or biodegradable material). It is a good way to promote your CSR strategy to your customers. Choose meaningful gifts that will actually be used, don't waste resources and money with pointless items that will be thrown right away.
Be careful not to choose gifts that have been offered too much those past years like water bottles or resusable bags. Ask yourself the question: "will this gift be useful for my customers or my employees, even if they already have 5 of them?".
Moreover,
• Act on quantities & quality (e.g. distribute 1,000 recyclable/ eco-friendly pens versus 2,000 made in a distant country and imported by plane).
• Buy locally to limit transportation and logistics.
• Choose manufacturers with conscious of environmental and social challenges:
1- safe work environment to prevent work accidents and illness
2- employees wellbeing
3- ethical work conditions (minimum salaries levels, no forced labor, no child work...)
If you do not have yet a sustainable procurement policy, please see here on how to implement one and here on how to write one.
+25%
of additional waste are generated over festive seasons in the UK (wrappings, cards, bottles, plastic bags, pine trees, left over food, one off decorations etc...)
(House Beautiful)
Market for Good is a B2B Marketplace for social and environmental organisations to showcase their products, services and activities- each reflecting one or few of the UN SDGs. For every purchase, the platform is able to accumulate the impact created and also showcases the way of how to amplify the impact by offsetting the carbon footprint.
Smilie is a tech-enabled gifting platform that transforms the way corporates gift to reduce waste and ignite delight. Through enabling recipient choices, we ensure that each gift received is desired.
By bringing on sustainable vendors, we provide sustainably produced gift options.
By enabling recipients to donate the gift amounts, we empower individuals to support causes.
Our premise is built upon great curated gift options - from products to experiences, and our platform enables any company to automate, track and measure their gifting needs - be it for internal employee engagement, external client referrals or memorable events.
Roger&Sons is a team of ethical makers and mavericks who craft fine furniture and thoughtful objects. Their work is driven by inquiry, and spans disciplines: furniture, industrial, and product design, as well as woodworking.
The team also spearheads The Local Tree Project - an initiative that salvages trees that have been felled for urban development. It rehabilitates these abandoned logs by turning them into durable, future-proof objects and furniture. They reduce their carbon footprint by using local material, keep processes local and minimising shipping as much as possible. As part of The Local Tree Project and the effort to preserve our dying trade, they believe in educating the public, the future generation, key players of the industry and relevant government bodies. They hold workshops as one of their solutions.
They wish to be at the forefront of change and play a part in steering Singapore’s wood industry to be a more sustainable and eco-friendly one, starting with changing their manufacturing processes from start till end.
Liberty Society is a social enterprise, of eco & impactful B2B merchandise & hampers that empowers marginalized women. Through our training to-employment model, we give purpose and dignity back to refugee communities & disadvantaged communities, to increase their income and overall livelihood.
We help corporations appreciate and value their team, supporters, or clients with curated personalized goods & gifts that are loving to the people and the planet.
Gifts for Good® is a premium corporate gifting company focused on empowering organizations to create measurable social and environmental impact through the act of gift-giving. To date, we have donated over $2.7 million to charitable causes, impacting the lives of millions of people around the world.
When you give through Gifts for Good, you are helping to tackle the world’s most pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges. We currently support the work of 80 nonprofits and social enterprises in 50 states and 72 countries. Each gift comes with its own detailed impact metric, allowing our business clients to benefit from unparalleled reporting into the real world impact of their gifting campaigns.
Gifts for Good is on a mission to redefine the $100 billion corporate gifts market by offering an alternative to the uninspiring, wasteful, high volume gifts of the past. Instead, we source unique, high-end sustainable products with compelling stories of impact behind them. Our GIFTforward® platform reduces the huge amounts of landfill waste caused by unwanted gifts by allowing recipients to choose a gift they actually want, or donate the gift value to a cause of their choice.
As a woman-owned small business and Certified B Corporation, our products meet the highest standards of verified social, economic, and environmental impact. In 2022, we also became certified as a Climate Neutral company after measuring, reducing, and offsetting the entirety of our carbon footprint.
Gifts for Good impact report to be found here.
Commenhers excels in upcycling textile waste, including repurposing flawed or decommissioned uniforms into unique, retail-ready products or corporate gifts. Not only do we contribute to a circular economy, we also prioritise social responsibility by working with local beneficiaries like housewives, the elderly, and tailors integrating them into our production team.
With the rising need to conserve and protect our environment, the first green store (TFGS) encourages individuals and enterprises to adopt environmentally responsible lifestyles, and advocate for Corporate Social Responsibility policies, through the products given away during various occasions and events.
They work with partners who are certified for Ethical Practices in their manufacturing process, and their retail brands are very carefully chosen keeping in mind their design, environmental and social impacts.
The Sustainability Project is a Singapore-based business which aims to encourage and inspire the adoption of low or zero waste lifestyle. This is done through 3 arms – Educate, Transform and Inspire.
Educate - Through our blog articles, they share their knowledge and passion towards sustainability. You can find tips on a sustainable lifestyle, chats with other green business owners and other related information to sustainability.
Transform - Through their store, they want to enable low or zero waste lifestyle by providing consumers a wide range of sustainable products that are of high quality and at affordable prices.
Inspire – Through planning events (e.g. talks, workshops, educational trips and more), they want to inspire the next generation to be a change-maker for Mother Earth.
Products:
In their store,they sell various sustainable lifestyle products; mainly bathroom and kitchen essentials such as cutlery set, shampoo bars and more. They also have a series of pre-loved and imperfect products for sale.
Corporate Events: They plan events for corporates and schools to share more about embarking on a sustainable journey e.g. talks, workshops, educational trips and more.
Left-handesign is Singapore's 1st Plantable sustainable stationery & lifestyle brand playfully designed with light & love. They celebrate collections inspired by simple joys of travel, art, nature, food, impressions as seen in day to day life.
Under left-handesign they design their ‘Plantable Series’ called BĪJ a Sanskrit word that means Seed. Their range of products includes Pencils, Pens and Notebooks, Gift tags which you can Plant into an herb like tomato, chili, marigold, tulsi (indian basil), spinach, okra, morning glory, mustard seeds.
Left-handesign was founded with a simple mission: put Nature back into peoples' lives. Through their "PLANT A TREE IN YOUR NAME” Program, they plant a tree for EVERY purchase.
At Purple and Pure we love the Earth. Zero waste, eco-friendly and mindfulness is the core of our brand. We believe in sustainability and want a safe and clean environment for our future generations.
Keeping our approach simple and safe by staying away from plastics, we have a wide range of products from gifting plantable stationary to everyday use essentials like organic bags and bamboo toothbrushes.
We are also a brand that supports women empowerment, where women play an important role in bringing the products to you and also benefit from every purchase you make.
One simple act, one small change, one step at a time can make a BIG impact.
XCEL Industrial Supplies Pte Ltd was established in 1992 as a manufacturing representative in the electronics industry and later expanded into various sectors. Today, our core activities revolve around the supply of pallets and other packaging solutions.
We are committed to achieving the Circular Economy model and driving the Zero-Waste movement in Singapore.
We advocate the importance to holding accountability to the creation of waste. Hence, our sustainability programs specifically target our client’s wooden waste. We collect and sort all imported wooden pallets/crates and provide an analysis on the opportunities for repairing or resizing these wooden pallets/crates for export. Alternatively, through our sustainable brand, CREUSE, damaged pallets find new life as stylish upcycled lifestyle products, reinforcing our dedication to a greener future.
Join us as we embark on a transformative journey towards a more sustainable world. For more information regarding Carbon footprint, Avoidance and Credits, please find us at xcelindustrial.com.