We believe cacao farmers deserve a fair prices for their labour and fair working conditions. It's why we use both direct and fair trade chocolate to create your treats.

Fair trade chocolate means farmers are paid a Fairtrade Premium. This is an extra amount on top of selling price that producers earn on every sale. Fairtrade producers earned more than €187 million in Premium (or extra) in 2018.

Many dairy eating fans say our chocolate taste even better than dairy based alternatives. And we agree, because great taste and great ethics go hand in hand.

Ethical chocolate and fair trade systems mean farming communities have access to necessities such as water pumps, sanitation and schooling. 

Local farmers invest the Fairtrade Premium in projects of their choice to benefit their businesses and communities.

For example, as part of the COVID-19 response, Fairtrade premiums have been invested into face masks and other hygiene and sanitation measures.

Farmers also invest in more sustainable farming practices and re-forestation efforts, securing our favourite crop for generations to come.

It's a sad truth that many non fair trade chocolate farms have regularly been found to use poor practices such as child labour.

Fair trade accreditation means farms are audited for compliance, to make sure farms are free of child labour.

When you enjoy Treat Dreams chocolate, you're part of the movement to remove modern slavery from chocolate farming.

After much research, trials and tests, we've switched 90% of our shipments from styrofoam boxes to cardboard boxes!

This has been achieved through investigating insulation methods and closely monitoring weather on departure, transit and destination routes. Our retail partners have been our co-conspirators in supporting this research and we thank them for their support in helping us reduce our impact.

The remaining 10% of orders using styrofoam are limited to long haul or hot climate deliveries such as Queensland and WA.

We also deliver the majority of our Sydney wholesale stock in sturdy reusable tubs, which we swap back and forth with stockist orders. It's one of the ways we seek to have a closed loop system.

There's no doubt about it, online shopping is incredibly convenient! 

However, many of us don't consider the environmental impact of online shopping deliveries. Did you know the logistics involved generate a huge amount of CO2 - over 10% of global CO2e emissions are from transport and logistics.

Being carbon neutral means that your net release of CO2e into the atmosphere is zero.

Basically, whatever CO2e you emit is cancelled out by a process known as 'offsetting' – that is, supporting projects that reduce emissions, like regenerating precious forest or replacing old equipment with more efficient technology.

Our carbon offsets partnership supports genuinely world-changing initiatives aimed at preserving and regenerating natural ecosystems, whether it’s restoring endangered rainforest habitats or providing clean water access for communities in Africa.

When you choose our standard shipping, you help ensure that our deliveries have a net carbon footprint of zero. Actually zero!

Like many of you, we’re working to reduce our impact on the planet.

With every print run we research the latest technologies available to small businesses to reduce our footprint further.

It’s why we’re excited to announce our latest cardboard print run is printed on FSC Certified Board, using soy based inks and meet environment policy ISO 14001 standards.

We’re looking forward to the chance to convert even more of our packaging to these materials in the future.

In the meantime, please use RedCycle bins to recycle the wrappers for products that are yet to transition.

Treat Dreams is female LGTBIQA+ owned and led, and members of our team are part of the LGBTIQA+ community and allies.

Before starting Treat Dreams, founder Lis worked with Australian Marriage Equality, seeking to advance the rights of all LGBTIQA+ Australians to publicly and legally recognise their love through marriage.

It was a tough time for us all in the lead up to the YES vote and the strength and friendship from everyone in our community saw us through. We firmly believe a survey wasn't the path Australia needed to take to get here, and recognise those lost along the way.

Treat Dreams are proud to have been part of weddings that have seen LGTBIAQ+ couples become spouses. Nothing makes us happier than helping celebrate love!

Treat Dreams create personalised chocolate wedding favours / bonbonerie with colours and flavours that are all your own. Talk to us about our custom wedding chocolate packages, where it's all about making your day exactly the way you want it.