Real Impact
Real Lives
Green Roots Social Impact
Ethstat was born from a belief that business can be a force for social and environmental good. We provide the things you need to run your office and use the work we generate to provide Real Living Wage employment and training opportunities to some of society’s most marginalised members. So far, we have provided more than 95,000 hours of placement opportunities to people experiencing long-term unemployment, housing insecurity, addiction and poor mental health. All our profit is reinvested in projects that protect some of the most vulnerable in our society.
Helping people is only one side of the story. We have always sought to reduce our impact on our planet. We achieved carbon neutrality in 2005, banned PVC and chlorinated plastics from our supply chain in 2006 and wrote EDM 1221 in 2010 with Malcolm Wicks, which called for investment in green manufacturing during the credit crunch. Since then, we have removed millions of pieces of single-use plastic, created products with world-leading environmental performance, and removed thousands of tonnes of CO2 from our supply chain.
As a team, we have survived long-term unemployment, poverty, homelessness, incarceration, discrimination, and abuse. Our strength is our diversity. We work and live in one of the most diverse boroughs in the world, and our team reflect our wider community.
We are a female-led organisation that is ethnically, physically, and neurologically diverse and embodies the idea that "we think differently, because we are different."
Together, we use our experience, training and professionalism to create new solutions for our business, customers and community. More than 90% of our staff have experience of discrimination or abuse. Over a quarter have experience of the judicial system, a third of us grew up in care, and nearly 40% of us have experience of homelessness.
We can never truly know an individual’s lived experience, but we have enough institutional expertise to be able to empathise with the world our neighbours inhabit.
We aim to move beyond diversity and inclusion into a space of belonging where no one is left behind and new futures can be forged.
