Our Ethical Chocolate Policy
A Unique Ethical Approach
There’s a huge disparity between those who grow cocoa and those of us who enjoy the final product. Our unique programme of Engaged Ethics is a hands-on, sleeves-rolled-up approach to help improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers – both in Ghana and on the island of Saint Lucia.
St Lucia
In Saint Lucia, we are pursuing our passion for chocolate by becoming one of the world’s few origin chocolatiers – growing our own cocoa. But alongside the rejuvenation of this historic plantation, we’re also reaching out to the wider cocoa community in Saint Lucia. For 20 years cocoa farming on the island has been in deep decline, something we’ve started to change with our Engaged Ethics Cocoa Programme – offering high quality seedlings, technical help, advice and know-how, and, crucially, guaranteeing to buy farmers’ entire crops at prices above the world market.
Explore the unique cocoa of Saint Lucia...
Learn the full details of our Engaged Ethics activities in Saint Lucia...
Ghana
Since 2002, we’ve been very active in Ghana, the world’s second largest cocoa grower. In and around the Osuben Basin region, we are providing direct funding and management skills to launch and maintain sustainable projects to improve the lives of cocoa farmers. Providing cocoa seedlings and expert farming advice to improve yields, sinking a borehole for much needed water and providing transport to reach even the most remote farms are just some examples.
Our programme of Engaged Ethics and cocoa in Ghana...
Fair Trade and Hotel Chocolat
Although we wholeheartedly support the principles of Fair Trade, there are a couple of major stumbling blocks that prevent us from making and selling Fair Trade chocolate.Read about our Fair Trade thinking …
Have Your Say
We are absolutely passionate about the work we are doing in St Lucia and Ghana, and we have provided full transparency here for our customers and our staff, so that you can understand and evaluate for yourselves what we are doing.
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