Our ingredients are backed by a range of certifications such as: RSPO-certified palm oil, Fair Trade International, Rainforest Alliance, or Cocoa Horizon organisations. We decide to leave out the dairy and ensure all packaging can be recycled.

Catherine's Originals may not change the world right away. Our mission? To show you that you can genuinely enjoy scrummy chocolate. Without compromise in taste, without compromise to our planet, people, animals and to your experience.

We’ve deliberately used the term "fairly traded"—not "Fair Trade."

We use the best, most traceable ingredients available to us at our size. It’s a solid foundation for a start-up.

Our long-term dream is to work directly with cocoa-growing farms, set up our own ethical procedures, and run our own checks. But, that kind of deep-rooted relationship takes years of growth to build and costs millions.

For now, we choose to pay a premium for cocoa sourced from farmers who receive extra funds to support local schools and community projects. NO child labour and health care for farmers!

What do we really want? To provide our own healthcare, our own education and to work with cocoa farmers personally, the same way we work with our in-house Catherine’s Originals team.

What we are not? A billion-pound brand, selling a single product, quietly owned by one of the world’s biggest cocoa giants—many of whom are still linked to child labour.

We’re entering a struggling market, in a price-competitive way, so we can build Catherine’s Originals with the goal of eventually partnering directly with cocoa farms! So we can deliver straight from the source and create our own truly fair cocoa system.

With a very much "winging it" approach, we intend to grow organically and in time, make this happen. One Selection Box at a time.