Welcome to our Vegan Sweet Shop. Our dedicated website for curated vegan sweets and vegan chocolates, that stands alone from our company website www.ilovezero.co.uk.
"I Love Zero" is a family run business located in Pocklington. Borne from our desire to minimise our ecological impacts on the planet.
‘I Love Zero’ offers customers an alternative to buying their dry goods from the supermarket in unnecessary single use plastic packaging. Where possible, it will be free from all non recyclable packaging and organic.
We source UK grown produce from trusted and known suppliers; and it was this connection with a local chocolate manufacturer "Choc-Affair" that led us to eventually set up our website Vegan Sweet Shop.
We started to sell Vegan Sweets in our bricks and mortar shop, they became popular, and many people who visited our shop were not aware that everything we sell is Vegan.
Conversations in store often result in people being surprised that Vegan sweets actually taste great, and in some instances taste better than those confectionaries that contain animal products. Indeed one customer asked if we sold "Normal" Marshmallows. When we explained that we only sold Vegan Marshmallows they asked "What's the difference?". We explained that Vegan marshmallows do not contain Gelatin and that gelatin was made from the collagen stripped from animal body parts. Their face was a picture. They had no idea. So they tried our vegan marshmallows and made the switch.
Over time we have had so many customers asking the same sort of questions. I guess if you're not familiar with plant based diets then it is often a surprise to learn of vegetarion and vegan options to familiar foods.
We originally never stocked many vegan sweets. We did sell vegan chocolate but that was all. Over time our selection of vegan sweets and vegan chocolates has grown. Curated and tested ;o) by ourselves, we know our sweet treats do no harm.
Therefore welcome to www.vegansweetshop.uk. You can buy vegan sweets in our Pocklington shop (Why not visit us?), but most customers want a mixture so in store most of the prices are the same per 100g. We average prices out so customers can trial our range.
However there are differences in the prices between the different types of vegan confectionary, so we set up this website to offer sweet treats at sweet prices.
So that's the story behind this website; but who is behind the shop?
The key people in our business are: Husband and wife team Theresa Brindley and Paul Cusick. Theresa is front of house while Paul is the wizard behind the curtains.
Together we bring a wealth of skills and experiences from our professional backgrounds. We know we work well together as we have been a couple for over 30 years and have three grown up children. We have also supported each other in diversifying our career paths over the years.
Setting up "I Love Zero" has been the culmination of a lot of soul searching, family discussions, conversations with friends and colleagues, researching, planning, decision-making and faith-leaping (if that’s a phrase?)
It started with a simple objective of helping us all live a more sustainable lifestyle.
Once we decided on what these were, it made choosing what we stocked and who we worked with easy.
- We offer sustainable, good quality products that look after our environment and ourselves.
- We handpick companies that are independent and as local to us as possible.
- We pick companies that share our values of sustainability, fair-wage, fair trade, using ethically sourced ingredients, whilst maintaining great quality products.
- Every decision we make supports our green ethos... Our energy suppliers are green. Our bag and apron suppliers use recycled material. Every product is vegan. Even our shop sign was made from recycled wood originating from a wooden pallet used to deliver our products.
We have done the research, and curate products that help you shopping a little greener. We are proud of what we have been able to achieve and love the direction our business is heading. We hope you will love it too and join us in our journey.