Planting trees with a new Green Wallet partnership

It’s easy to point the finger at mammoth online marketplaces we think are having a bad impact on the world. But there have been few alternatives with the ease of use both consumers and businesses expect.

So I was thrilled when I discovered a brilliant tech platform featuring ethical products from conscious merchants. And I’m so impressed with how it works and its values that Make an Impact is partnering with it to help our community find and sell sustainable products – and plant trees at the same time.

Green Wallet is a tech platform whose team of tech enthusiasts use cutting edge tools for the greater good and a greener future. Its Green Wallet app is already in use UK-Europe wide and it’s simple and easy for social entrepreneurs to access conscious customers through the app.

It will give many of the Make an Impact community access to a wider audience of potential customers. On top of this, Green Wallet also offers a payment processing solution. I know many readers need to process online payments and Green Wallet’s solution will help you save money on payment processing transaction costs.

5 Top tips to grow your social enterprise in the fastest and easiest way possible

Your social enterprise has stopped growing. Now let’s be honest here. There could be a million external reasons for this – the pandemic, the economy isn’t doing well, people don’t have any money to spend, customers aren’t buying at the moment, no-one wants what you are selling, there’s more competition from cheaper alternatives, your business is running at maximum capacity etc. I could go on with this list, but one thing is clear – you have bought in to a reason for your social enterprise not growing.

The problem with this, and it is a problem, is that none of these reasons are real. Yes, there may be truth to these external factors but how does that explain why some social enterprises are continuing to grow anyway? It can’t be down to luck, and it isn’t – it’s a result of your personal beliefs about your social enterprise, how successful it can be and how much money you are comfortable earning, as well as your daily actions.

Guest Blog: We must not stay silent – from Michelle John

How many times in your life have you heard the saying ‘didn’t happen in my day’?

Whether we’re talking about crime or discipline, our parents and grandparents can be quick to suggest it’s a modern-day problem, thus absolving their generation of any collective responsibility for that particular issue.

Now it could be argued that in some cases, they’re right. As time moves on, society changes and so too do the problems within it. But in many other cases, the reason they believe it didn’t happen was because it wasn’t openly talked about at that time.

Take mental health for instance – decades ago, symptoms we now know to be part of a diagnosable mental health problem would be attributed to something else. And if someone was displaying behaviour which really made them stand out – they’d be simply hidden away in an institution for the rest of their life. Problem solved. Or not!