Our impact

Recognised and certified

We're the North Devon team behind Letterfest's personalised books, illustrations, pots and engraved gifts. In 2025 we won The King's Award for Enterprise: International Trade, and since August 2025 we've been a Certified B Corporation™.

  • The King's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2025
  • Certified B Corporation™ since August 2025
  • Proudly based in North Devon

Recognised by The King for International Trade

In May 2025 the London Gazette named Letterfest as one of the year's winners of The King's Award for Enterprise: International Trade.

The Lord-Lieutenant of Devon presented the award to our team on 14 July 2026.

The numbers behind the award

Figures from the official 2025 King's Awards for Enterprise press book.

  • 10× overseas growth

    Our overseas sales grew ten-fold (1,010%) in three years.

  • 38% of sales overseas

    Our top overseas markets are the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

  • 1 of 116

    International Trade awards made in 2025, out of 199 King's Awards for Enterprise.

Certified B Corporation™ since August 2025

Certified B Corporations™, or B Corps™, are companies verified as meeting standards for social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.

We're proud to be part of a global movement working to benefit people and the planet. Our highest-scoring impact area is Workers: the people who make every Letterfest gift.

How we're scored

From our B Impact Assessment (standards v1.6). Each area has a different maximum, so these aren't percentages.

  • 91.9 overall

    80 qualifies for certification. The median for ordinary businesses is 50.9.

  • Workers 29.3

    Financial security, health and wellbeing, career development, and engagement.

  • Community 21.7

    Economic impact, supply chain, diversity and inclusion, and giving back.

  • Environment 20.0

    Air and climate, land and life, water, and how we manage our impact.

  • Governance 16.4

    Mission, ethics and transparency, including our Mission Lock.

  • Customers 4.3

    How we look after the people who buy from us.