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Growing an economy needs entrepreneurs, and long-term growth also requires sustainable use of resources.  One growing business ticks both boxes. After arriving from Australia as a backpacker in 2002, Michael Amos probably wasn’t expecting to be leading a recycling business 23 years later that has supported 1,500 schools in 44 countries. Waste to Wonder Worldwide offers a B2B ethical office clearance service, transforming redundant office furniture into life-changing resources. On average, 97% of furniture and equipment they receive is redistributed to schools, charities and community projects in the UK and globally. Any items not fit for reuse are responsibly recycled. Apart from the obvious feelgood factor, another attraction for clients, which include HSBC, IBM and Honda, is detailed ESG (environmental, social and governance) reporting based on the carbon saved and social impact it makes through its donations. Waste to Wonder report that, on average, their work has saved five million kilograms of CO2 being released into the atmosphere annually. In short, reusing furniture means less trees have to be cut down. “Not only does the Waste to Wonder solution help us to support charities and schools globally, but by donating waste furniture rather than sending it to landfill, we're significantly reducing our carbon emissions,” said Amy Baer, Global Executive Director ESG and Procurement at global commercial real estate services and investment firm CBRE. “Our most recent report highlighting the benefits of the CBRE and W2W partnership demonstrated total savings of 1.3m kg of carbon across its projects.” A measure of Waste to Wonder’s growth is the success of their ‘School in a Box’ programme. Each ‘School in a Box’ is a 40-foot container packed with approximately £25,000 worth of redundant furniture cleared for companies who prioritise reuse rather than recycling. The first School in a Box was delivered to Morocco in 2003 and by 2010 the total had reached 100.  Fast forward to 2025 and 150 School in a Box shipments are now sent every year. Office furniture to the value of £45 million has now been donated and in 2024 Waste to Wonder reached a major milestone, donating its one millionth item. The company also supports many projects in the UK. It has provided kitchens for London’s Community Kitchen (LCK) which works to combat food poverty and reduce waste, including providing hot meals and food parcels for individuals and families facing crisis or hardship. LCK is guided by the belief that access to food is a basic human right. Waste to Wonder has also provided furniture for the University of East London’s Centre of Sustainability, which provides local people, businesses and UEL students and graduates access to affordable workspace alongside programmes to launch and grow businesses and develop the skills of East Londoners. “The natural thing was to talk to Waste to Wonder, and they just amazed us with the amount of quality second life furniture that they could bring into the space,” said Maxine Turney, Account Manager at Wagstaff Interiors Group, the commercial office company that fitted out the Centre of Sustainability. For Waste to Wonder’s Managing Director Michael Amos, the project offered the prospect of something more than furnishing a workspace. “This is an amalgamation of furniture that a large number of companies have decided they no longer need. For so many of our clients, potentially being able to come down and see the environmental impact of reuse is fantastic,” said Michael. There are many different kinds of growth. Waste to Wonder’s furniture is helping to grow a generation of entrepreneurs in East London. For their clients, seeing their office furniture reused shows them how their own businesses can create positive and social environmental impact, contributing to the communities outside of their offices. And Waste to Wonder’s ‘School in a Box’ programme is helping with the education of a new generation of citizens beyond the UK’s borders. To use the government’s own language, it’s the kind of growth that makes everyone better off. wastetowonder.com

One tea company has been ‘breaking down barriers to opportunity’ long before the phrase became part of an election-winning Labour manifesto.  The subject of refugees is part of the political hot potato that is immigration, the associated image for which is the flow of small boats that continue to make headlines. Of those coming across the English Channel in this way, 99% claim asylum once they arrive, according to Oxford University’s Migration Observatory. Small boat arrivals present a vivid image of desperate people taking risks to move from their home country to try and improve their lives, but refugees make up less than 1% of the UK population, according to UN figures.   Of those applying for asylum, 90% are accepted into the UK as someone forced to leave their country in order to escape war, violence and/or persecution for who they are or what they believe. The number of people claiming asylum in the UK rose by 17% last year. Refugees accepted by the UK need jobs to support themselves, and one growing business is showing how this might be done. NEMI teas is a London-based company providing employment to refugees, giving them local work experience and job readiness skills to enter the UK workforce and integrate into broader society. It supplies tea to large corporate offices, hotels, restaurants and cafes across the UK and Europe.  NEMI teas founder Pranav Chopra started the business in 2017 after speaking to refugees at a charity dinner and learning that a lack of UK work experience or references was holding them back from finding employment.  In response he started employing refugees selling chai on market stalls, a venture which eventually evolved to become NEMI teas.   Spotting a gap in the market presented by the shortage of hospitality workers following the pandemic, Pranav opened Trampoline Cafe in 2022 as an offshoot of NEMI, which hires refugees in London, providing them with opportunities to gain hospitality training and work experience, improve their English and better integrate into UK society. There are now two cafes, with the second open at the Royal College of Nursing. To date, Trampoline has successfully employed 28 refugees at the cafe with most trainees moving on to hospitality related jobs.   Ashkan has worked at Trampoline since 2022 after leaving Iran and it has enabled him to build a life here. A former accountant with a passion for coffee and Iran’s cafe culture, he had previously considered changing careers to work in hospitality.   “In a cafe you meet a lot of people and a lot of friends. My English was bad and now it is good. When I started to work in Trampoline, because I have a salary my life changed. I had more freedom to travel, for the cost of living, and I was happy,” Ashkan said. His ambition is to open his own small business – a cafe - in the future.   By strengthening collaborations with contract caterers and successful supplying to corporates across the UK, NEMI has experienced significant recent growth. Company turnover rose from £144,000 in 2020 to £1.74 million in 2024, with clients including PwC, Nationwide and UBS.   "Not only do NEMI provide us with high-quality teas, but we admire the work of Pranav and his team in supporting refugees with work experience, job readiness skills and integration into UK society. One of the values that guides PwC is 'make a difference', and one way we can do that is through our procurement of goods and services," said David Adair, Director of Community Engagement and The PwC Foundation UK.  Business success has enabled NEMI to double their team and significantly increase refugee employment opportunities at their Trampoline cafes. For a government with a mission to ‘break down barriers to opportunity’, NEMI and Trampoline offer a model for integrating new arrivals to the UK, enabling them to contribute to the government’s goal of economic growth.  nemiteas.com trampolinecafe.com