FROM BOMA TO B-CORP

Our ten year journey working with the cola nut growers in Sierra Leone significantly contributed to our epic 127.4 score and certification from B-Corp. Here’s how we scored well above the 80 point threshold to certify.

We have a saying ‘what comes around goes around’ and a belief that the more we respect customers buying our drinks at the near end of our supply chain, and producers at the far end, the more we get back.

The Customers impact area evaluated how well we look after our customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and opportunities for customer feedback. This area is one for future improvement.

127.4 POINTS

The Environment section is an external audit of our company’s overall environmental management practices and their impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity that we all share.

After 10 years working alongside communities in the Gola Rainforest in Sierra Leone and organic and Fairtrade producers in developing nations, one of the most exciting projects in our sights for the future is continuing to protect and regenerate rainforests. We’re proud to support the communites who are protecting the rainforests and its inhabitant species.

Going through this process has focused us on accurately measuring our environmental impact, especially the potential for further reduction of C02e / GHG along our supply chain and plastic waste.

The Karma Foundation played a key role in achieving our B Corp Certification and by meeting the criteria of a ‘Designed to Give’ business impact model, demonstrating the life-changing initiatives supporting the communities who grow Karma’s cola nuts in Sierra Leone.

Every Karma Drink sold funds projects in education, sustainability, local enterprise and more – for example, 2021 marked the beginning of a new school being built in Segbwema which will save school children walking over 12 miles a day to get a basic education.

In the past 12 months months we’ve donated 26,112 to drinks to charitable causes including food distribution charities such as FareShare and The Felix Project. Karma continues to connect the communities we work with, from consumers, customers and businesses.

Community is Karma’s highest scoring category.

The Workers’ criteria look at how the company contributes to employees’ financial security, health, well-being, safety, career development, and engagement satisfaction.

Reflection on the Worker Impact Assessment highlights some areas where we can lift our game. We’ll continue to foster an inclusive and diverse working environment and share the success of our endeavours with stakeholders through the work of The Karma Foundation.

B Lab believes the key to being a business for good is to weave your mission into your company’s cultural and legal DNA by integrating your values into job descriptions, performance reviews, and in Karma’s case, even adjusting corporate governing documents.

Karma achieved almost the full number of points available for this section through making structural changes to formalise the commitment to making a positive impact.