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We're on the move... My dad once told me that 'The worst way to let down your business, is to fail to change when it needs to change.' Luckily for us the decision is easy.  We've been a teddy and doll hospital now for seventeen years and it's the heart and soul of what we do. We simply can't keep up and now have a six months waiting list. We can't spread the word because we can't spare the people to keep up with the increase in patients. However, we're also, for all intent and purposes, our ethical message aside,...

I know I'm not on my own in my almost scary love of Christmas. Giving is one of my guilty pleasures, especially when my children were growing up and I was able to relive my childhood through them. These days I really do try to think about what I'm giving. Our purchases don't just have an obvious cost, they often have other, far reaching and far more important costs. It's important to consider the environmental and social impact of your purchase and the easiest way to do that is to buy from a company who you trust to have done the groundwork for you. They'll...

It's not easy, in a world, very much tilted towards the desires of the big corporations, to keep your ethical chin up as a small business.  We've been a Teddy and Doll Hospital for seventeen years now and for more than a decade we've made ethics the heart of what we do. Not that we went around being unethical before that you understand! Not at all, but until we really began to understand, the depth and harm of consumerism aimed at children, we just pootled along on a cloud of teddy fluff and innocence.   The day I was told...

We've have reinvented the knitting pattern! If you are anything at all like me, you can be half way through a sentence and .... erm ..... where was I? Yeah, you get the message. So, taking into account the phone call, distracting conversation that I'm not included in or, quite simply a butterfly mind, I find it hard enough to concentrate at the best of times, let alone when I'm trying to do something as focussed as following a knitting pattern.  As the 'Attention Deficit Adult' in our team (I tested in the high 90s!) and therefore so full of creativity and...

It's only when I actually sit down to add your products to your new website that I realise, not only how much 'stuff' you have to sell but also how gorgeous it all is.  I'm reminded of the many hours, trawling through the ether to find the very best we could of each range. Speaking to everyone from the utter numpty who thought ethics was was an old model making company!!! to the lady who squealed with joy because she thought she was all alone in caring about how her products were made and what they were made from, who'd...