Haygrove Philosophy - What are we about?

We are not about more hectares, or more polytunnels, or even, though we enjoy it, about innovation.

Haygrove's raison d'être is personal and organisational.

• To try to create opportunities for individuals with real passion and ability, to make positive change and live their dreams.
  
  
• Over time to inspire action beyond ourselves. By creating a modest example of the tremendous under-utilised potential of small to medium sized enterprises in the Developed World to stimulate progress in the Developing World.

These are based upon belief that with near free communications for all around the corner, the challenge to us all to provide each other genuine opportunity to improve our lot, whatever it is, will become increasingly vital (frustrated people smash windows). It is also becoming excitingly more achievable.

A billion people sit at the bottom, shortly to be holding mobile phones and free internet. Ignoring them, so easy, maybe the biggest mistake our children suffer, rather like the grown up children who were lost in WW2 as a result of their parents who ignored. How do we as a small Western business really make any difference to the vast but newly connected poor of the developing world, more effectively than the waste that has occurred in the last 50 years?

Our dream is, over the next 20 years, to be part of a gathering wave of examples of a new type of small or medium sized business. One which raises the bar to the traditional. By profitably incorporating to it's core, development activity in poor regions of the country and world. Such that the very definition of 'what is a business?' becomes renewed. Where the current division of activity between the business and charity sectors is superceded, for the former is often too shallow and the latter too dependant. Neither seems to suffice alone, yet too often exist alone.

Would we not create more opportunity for more people, more satisfyingly and therefore more effectively, by being engaged by a new type of organisation that does both?

In 20 years we wish to represent this.