Secret Linen Store
West Sussex, United Kingdom
June 2023
Textiles
Wholesale/Retail
Portugal,
United Kingdom
Secret Linen Store is a British, family-owned, female-founded online retailer specialising in bedroom textiles. They have a passion for finding fabulous fabrics for bedrooms, offering a wide and colourful range of bedding, curtains, nightwear, and towels. Founded by sisters Molly and Harriet, they are dedicated to honesty, transparency, along with style, and comfort. Secret Linen Store prioritises fair wages and invests heavily in creating a positive and enriching work environment for its employees. They have developed long-standing relationships with their suppliers in Portugal and the UK, collaborating closely on manufacturing processes, packaging, and waste-management. This ensures that their products are ethically made, durable, and have minimal impact on the planet. In addition to their commitment to ethical practices, Secret Linen Store provides financial support to selected charities on a monthly basis and actively encourages staff volunteering. They have also been investing in offsetting their operational carbon footprint for the past three years and remain committed to doing so in the future. Secret Linen Store looks forward to a future where everyone can enjoy a great night’s sleep in very comfortable beds, whilst also having a clear conscience. Is it bedtime yet?
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 16.8
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Governance 16.8
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 31.5
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 22.4
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 34.5
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Customers 4.6
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.