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All good pop-ups must pop-down (but not quite yet)

All good pop-ups must pop-down, but not quite yet. We're excited to have negotiated an additional month in our pop-up shop in the Oxford Covered Ma...

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Download your Ducky Zebra colouring sheets

If you were our new Ducky Zebra designer, what colours would you use for our two main characters? Download our free colouring sheets, and have some...

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Launching during a global pandemic made us stronger

A few months before the first lockdown, I left my well-paid marketing job to start my new venture. By January 2020 we were busy working on designs...

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How can we tackle the gender confidence gap?

Evidence shows that confidence levels are evenly matched for boys and girls until the age of 8. But between the ages of 8 and 14, girls’ confidence...

How to use social media for good

Social media often gets a bad press. So we decided to talk to Alexis Bushnell from Social Media for Humans on how we can use it for good; how we ca...

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Caring for the environment: Download your Award Chart

In partnership with It's Our Planet Too, we've created a fun Eco Award chart to encourage kids to look after the planet. And to celebrate their eff...

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Is organic cotton kinder for the environment than non-organic?

Seventy percent of people we asked said yes: organic cotton is kinder for the environment than conventional cotton. However, less than 15% regularl...

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5 Reasons why kindness is so powerful

In the past, kindness wasn’t always regarded as a strong characteristic. However, with the rise of the kindness economy, and leaders like Jacinda A...