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Blonde Chocolate | What is it and how is it made?
Blonde chocolate is still a fairly recent discovery in the chocolate world and has yet to storm the mainstream market. It remains the little-known secret of pastry chefs and artisan chocolatiers, b...
Think Pink | How we're supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month
We wanted to mark the occasion by creating this beautiful, limited edition, pink box of the month. For every box sold, we’ll donate 10% of its sale to a leading breast cancer charity.
5 Happy Beans | Part 5 | Innovation
As Covid-19 swept across the globe, we suddenly found ourselves in a position where it wasn’t product innovation we needed, it was work innovation. We needed to rethink our fundamental ways of wor...
5 Happy Beans | Part 4 | Environment
We're passionate about the future of our environment. As a brand, we do everything we can to minimise our impact on it. We investigated how lockdown has affected our environment and the way that we...
5 Happy Beans | Part 3 | Suppliers
The Colombians drink hot chocolate every day, in the same way as we drink tea, therefore the government prioritised it as an important food production service, allowed to produce throughout the cor...
5 Happy Beans | Part 2 | Our Team
I called Chocolate Society Superstars and general morale boosters, Shelley & Sarah, for a chat about how they’ve coped with the Coronavirus lockdown. The answer seems to be ‘very well’ and both...
5 Happy Beans | Part 1 | Customers
The five beans of the cocoa pod in our logo stand for the 5 pillars of our business, customers, staff, suppliers, the environment and innovation. We spoke to one of our customers, Leon, about how h...
Things to do in Bruton, Somerset
If you're looking for a Somerset staycation, look no further than beautiful Bruton in Somerset, England. Find amazing, cultural, foodie, rural weekends away in the UK, accessible by train. From wor...
10 Reasons to shop independent
As a small business ourselves with lots of independent collaborators and partners, we know the benefits of shopping independent first-hand. There’s many more than 10 reasons, but to summarise, her...