DAME | B Corp®

Why pay £300 for a tampon dispenser when you could get a better looking one for free, with refills helping to fight #periodpoverty? Get a quote for your business here https://lnkd.in/ezetMsSP #bcorp #circulareconomy #dei #dandi #employeewellness #impact #sustainability #facilities

Periods, menstruation, sustainability and innovation are the topics of our latest #podcast as I chat with Alec Mills, co-founder of DAME | B Corp® 🎙️https://lnkd.in/eVncvMxH 🎧 DAME is on a mission to "make periods positive for people and for the planet" and we discuss business models, product development, innovation, partnership and equality on the journey to date. Alec notes that he started the journey with his co-founder "tackling a logistical problem" (ie looking at sanitary products as a subscription business). As he says "As a man, I started very naively, trying to solve logistical problems. But once you see the issues surrounding periods, you can't unsee them" - the packaging plastic and waste, the toxins, the questions of access and education and the mission to support change on a wider scale. Broadly, I loved the #partnerships for progress, whether from Waitrose & Partners as a channel, John Lewis & Partners's innovation or Patagonia for materials development, or the learning that early product feedback on Kickstarter can aid product development. So much in this episode to ponder - what are the points that stood out for you? cc/ RetailX, InternetRetailing The podcast is also available on Spotify (https://lnkd.in/ejcacAiu), YouTube (https://lnkd.in/efT-MNcy) or by looking for "retailcraft" wherever you get your audio.

🚨 We've launched into Holland & Barrett! 🚨 You can now find our Reusable Applicator, Toxin-free Tampons and Washable Pads in H&B stores across the UK, and the rest of the DAME range at H&B online. Thank you to the amazing Sam Goodman for bringing the partnership to life. Looking at the colours, it's a marriage that's meant to be... #launch #bcorp #retail #period #vegan #carboninsetting

Today is Menstrual Health Day and the theme is 'Period Friendly World', something at the core of our mission at DAME | B Corp®. We've been working with many forward-thinking businesses to create period-friendly spaces for their customers, clients or teams - helping them to create menstrual and menopause policy, as well as providing period products in their bathrooms with each dispenser raising money to fight period poverty. For many businesses, these spaces are a reflection of their ethos and their identity - so the idea of a big white ugly tampon dispenser in their bathrooms is often a deal breaker. But we think it shouldn't be! We've been working with the National Trust to create a dispenser that matches the style, quality and care shown in their public washrooms, as well as reflecting our shared love of the natural world. Today we're delighted to reveal the result of this collaborative design! If you'd like to create more period-friendly spaces, get int touch. https://lnkd.in/eEy2SARH Bloody Good Period Bloody Good Employers National Trust #menstrualhealthday #menstrualhygieneday

It's great to see our co-founder Alec Mills speaking on a panel with Sheena Sauvaire at RetailX this morning about values-based marketing, talking about what matters, and bringing communities with you. Want to collaborate or share ideas? Pin him down!

Every heard of Carbon Insetting? We hadn't a year ago... This #EarthDay marks the anniversary of a really exciting 1 year pilot program we've run in partnership with Pilio. We'll let the slides do the talking, but with their help, we were able to roll out a pioneering sustainability initiative that really packed a punch. Thank you Catherine Bottrill and Ella Frederiksen for a great partnership! #carboninsetting #carbonoffsetting #organiccotton #cotton #genderequality #pakistan #farming

We're excited to be launched on Canopey! A platform that is truly different from other retailers by curating only one kind of brand... the kinder ones.

The B Corp logo on our Organic Tampon packaging, taken through a magnifying glass at our printers - a lovely metaphor for B Corp Month! Yes, businesses should be striving to do more for people and planet, but we love that it forces honesty and transparency, letting the world look beyond the bottom line to see what can be done better, alongside what's being done well. As a B Corp since 2019, we've improved our score from 83 to 103, but we don't see it as a league table, we see it as a framework with which to hold ourselves accountable. For us, certification is really the start line, and we need as many businesses in the race as possible so we can be fully transparent, and held accountable. So on that note, our biggest f*ck up these last 12 months was that we said we'd ship all products by sea, and have totally failed. We have learned a few tricks however and hope to do better this year. That said, please get in touch if you can help us with this! Anyone else care to share? DASH Water Wild Oddbox BOL Foods The Collective NZ Elvis & Kresse Seacourt Ltd... Go on, don't be shy. #bcorp #bcorpmonth #betterbusiness #learnings

Thanks ONQOR | B Corp Digital Agency for having our co-founder Alec Mills on to talk about the importance of B Corp as a starting point, of rethinking the way we use resources, and how grannies during the War are a model for the future! #bcorp #bcorpmonth

📢 Hear ye hear ye! Unsure of what to do for International Women's Day? Here are some insights that can help you make real change from right within your own team… 👩 91% of women say they feel held back by their period at work 🩸 8 in 10 women have been stuck without period products at work 🙏 96% of women want more period friendly workplaces 🤯 Just 1 in 197 businesses have a menstrual policy So we've teamed up with Bloody Good Employers to create more period friendly workplaces, train key staff on best practice, and build environments where people with periods can thrive, whatever surprises their menstrual cycle or menopause may be. Here's the good bit 👇 To stimulate change, to all those who get in touch and nominate their business this week, we're giving all their teams 30% off DAME products, and a free DAME bathroom dispenser for their workplace (worth £140!) Get in touch here, and make a real change this IWD https://lnkd.in/eEy2SARH