Blog
-
5 Things That Make A Great Chocolate
I was being interviewed for a magazine article and one of the questions asked was, “what five things make a great chocolate?" As our business specialises in filled chocolates, this was the perfect question. However, a chocolatier has many considerations...
-
How my perception of people with autism changed by visiting Harry Specters
We had been working with Harry Specters for three weeks, on the Cambridge HUB Social Innovation Programme, when I first came to visit. Meeting and speaking with Shaz, Rohan, Darius, Rachel and Aston was pretty eye-opening. Most importantly, from observing...
-
What skills do people with autism have?
Recently, an MBA student asked us a simple question as part of his project. “Why do more companies not employ people with autism?” The question is obviously one for other companies to answer, but we couldn’t just say “ask them!”...
-
What is "Great Product Great Cause?"
It is difficult to be a social enterprise because you are in the middle of a business and a charity. The challenge is to keep the balance between your business and social change activities. This challenge intensifies when market winds...
