Evolution Stores (Retail) - A subsidiary of Windhorse Trading Ltd

Evolution Stores is a retail chain of 20 stores located throughout the UK and Eire as well as online, focusing on the Homeware, Gifts, Wellbeing and Fashion Accessories departments. Evolution is part of Windhorse Trading Ltd, registered in England no. 1579758 wholly owned by The Windhorse Trust registered charity no. 288929. Windhorse Trading also operates Windhorse which is a wholesaler of Homeware, Gifts, Wellbeing and Fashion Accessories. Our business has grown from a London market stall in 1980, through temporary shops, to a chain of 20 shops across the UK and Eire as well as online with an annual turnover of £5,000,000 +. We are a values driven business and those values remain as essential to Evolution now as they were 30 or so years ago. Our main aim is to make profit to give to the charity that owns Evolution, the Windhorse Trust. How we do this is essential to us and our values underpin our other aim to consider the ethical and environmental implications of all our business activities. We believe it is possible to pay our suppliers a fair price for their goods and to make sure that they have safe working conditions. We also believe that it is possible to offer our customers an honest price without loading on a premium because our goods are ethically traded. As a Buddhist business our business decisions are guided by the teachings on kindness, generosity and honesty. Most of us in the Cambridge headquarters and a few of our shop teams are Buddhist, but our business now reflects an amazing range of religious and cultural diversity. We believe that we all have the capacity to be generous, to be kind and to make a difference to the lives of other people through our working together. All our profit not re-invested in the business, goes to the Windhorse Trust. The Trust distributes the money to a variety of Buddhist projects, as well as to social projects closely connected with countries and companies that supply our goods.