Bands of Courage
Giving is Kindness.
The designs of their glass bands are inspired by Endangered Animals.
Every Band plants 10 Mangrove trees to provide a home for marine and land animals.
Your Band of Courage comes with a 10 Tree Planting Certificate, and an Endangered Animal Gift Card, each can be personalised and together they tell you all about your trees and your endangered animal.
Bands of Courage was conceived in early 2020 during COVID. To pass the time in lockdown they began making glass bracelets at home with designs inspired by critically endangered animals like the Hawksbill Sea Turtle.
With an accumulating number of bands, they decided to sell them at their local market, to share stories about endangered animals and see if they could plant trees to help the animals – so they were “taking action” as well as ‘talking’.
Over the following 18 months they would pop out of lockdown when markets reopened, talk non-stop about our endangered animals then pop back home for another lockdown to make more bands.
Given their bands are handmade, and their trees hand planted, the idea was to plant enough trees to offset the CO2 emissions of everyone working with them.
Their little business is a family affair run from home with as yet no employees.
Their purpose – Sustainability of animals, plants and people.