WildHearts Group

What WildHearts Group does

WildHearts Group is a Glasgow-headquartered social enterprise operating as a portfolio of four wholly-owned subsidiaries (WildHearts Office, WildHearts Brand Communications, WildHearts Schools/Education, and WildHearts Talent) plus the WildHearts Foundation, all incorporated in Scotland. The group generates commercial revenue from office supplies procurement and integrated print, marketing, and digital communications services sold to large multinational and FTSE/Fortune 500 customers, then reinvests all profits into a parallel set of impact programmes: a UK secondary-school engagement programme, corporate talent development built around the Babson-endorsed Micro-Tyco Method, and a microfinance operation in 40 low-income countries that has disbursed £17m to 158,000 women entrepreneurs with a 99% payback rate. Its underlying operating infrastructure comprises strategically located warehousing, an electric delivery fleet, real-time SMART tracking, and ISO 9001/14001-certified processes across all six entities. The business model combines enterprise field sales of commodities and services (transaction-fee revenue on office supplies and print) with subscription-style talent and apprenticeship programmes and grant/corporate-funded Schools delivery; GTM is exclusively direct enterprise sales targeting named global brands across financial services, insurance, technology, FMCG, engineering, and legal sectors.

Name

WildHearts Group

Legal name

WildHearts Group Limited

Website

https://wildheartsgroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

WildHearts Group is a Glasgow-based social enterprise portfolio that sells office supplies, print, and talent development to global enterprises and reinvests all profits into UK schools programmes and international microfinance for women entrepreneurs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Glasgow

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Office Supplies Sales: WildHearts Office provides office supplies (paper, pens, notebooks, tech, furniture, PPE, ink/toner, facilities, catering products) to enterprise customers. The company uses all profits from these sales to deliver social and environmental projects.
2. Print and Brand Communications: WildHearts Brand Communications delivers integrated print, marketing, creative and digital solutions. Services include print procurement, creative services (Bigkid agency), digital services, retail solutions, customer communications, and marketing technology platforms.
3. Talent Development Programmes: WildHearts Talent provides training programmes including Micro-Tyco Challenge variants, workshops (Your Sustainable 'WHY', How to Influence, Challenge by Choice), and Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeships delivered in partnership with Coventry University.
4. Microfinance and Financial Inclusion: WildHearts provides micro-loans to women entrepreneurs in developing countries. With a 99% payback rate, loans are reinvested to create ongoing impact. Women invest 90% of income back into families for nutrition, healthcare, and education.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

WildHearts Group is a portfolio of social enterprises selling office supplies, print, brand communications, talent development programmes, and microfinance to global enterprises. The group comprises WildHearts Office (100,000+ stationery and print products), WildHearts Brand Communications (integrated print, creative, digital and marketing technology), WildHearts Schools (youth education delivered free via corporate partners), and WildHearts Talent (Micro-Tyco Method training and CMDA apprenticeships with Coventry University). All profits are reinvested into social and environmental projects, addressing over 50% of the UN SDGs with 3,000,000+ lives transformed globally.

Product overview

WildHearts Group is a portfolio of social enterprises unified by the mission of using business as a force for good. The company operates across four distinct business units: WildHearts Office (office supplies and print procurement), WildHearts Brand Communications (integrated print, marketing, creative and digital solutions), WildHearts Schools (education programmes for young people), and WildHearts Talent (values-driven training provider). WildHearts Office provides over 100,000 office supply products across categories including office supplies, print, technology, furniture, PPE & workwear, ink & toner, facilities, and catering. WildHearts Brand Communications offers Print Procurement, Creative Services (Bigkid agency), Digital Services, Retail Solutions, Customer Communications, and Marketing Technology. WildHearts Schools delivers the WildHearts Global Youth Summit, The Micro-Tyco Challenge, Careers & Employability Resources, and related events, all free for young people. WildHearts Talent provides The Micro-Tyco Challenge programmes (Early Careers, Departmental, Leadership, Cross-Functional Collaboration variants), workshops (Your Sustainable 'WHY', How to Influence, Challenge by Choice), the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship, and flagship events (Talent Leaders Summit, Future Talent Summit, Talent for Good Webinars). All divisions reinvest profits into social and environmental projects, collectively transforming over 3 million lives.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• WildHearts Office: World leading social enterprise providing office supplies and print to global brands, reinvesting all profits into social and environmental projects.
• WildHearts Brand Communications
• WildHearts Schools
• WildHearts Talent
• Micro-Tyco Challenge

Products and services

• WildHearts Office A world-leading social enterprise providing office supplies (paper, pens, notebooks, technology, furniture, PPE, ink and toner, facilities and catering products) and print procurement services to global brands. Over 100,000 stationery and facilities SKUs are offered with all profits reinvested in social and environmental projects.
• WildHearts Brand Communications Integrated print, marketing, creative and digital solutions for enterprise clients, combining contractual print procurement expertise with bespoke operational marketing technology. Includes Print Procurement, Creative Services (Bigkid agency), Digital Services, Retail Solutions, Customer Communications, and Marketing Technology, with all profits reinvested in social and environmental projects.
• WildHearts Schools Programme A collaboration of corporate partners that delivers free world-class education, employability training, and sustainability programming to UK secondary school students, including the WildHearts Global Youth Summit, Micro-Tyco Challenge, Careers & Employability Resources, and Schools Parliament Celebration. Over 75,000 student engagements annually.
• WildHearts Talent A purpose-driven, Babson College-endorsed training provider supporting global brands to develop talent across 35 countries via The Micro-Tyco Method, the Micro-Tyco Challenge variants (Early Careers, Departmental, Leadership, Cross-Functional), workshops (Your Sustainable 'WHY', How to Influence, Challenge by Choice), and CMDA apprenticeships. Over 50,000 participants trained.
• Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (CMDA) A 4-year Level 6 Chartered Manager / Leadership & Management degree apprenticeship developed in partnership with Coventry University and originally piloted with Nestlé. Features guest lectures from Nestlé, Siemens, and Zurich. From September 2025 the programme is open to mixed cohorts across organisations.
• The Micro-Tyco Challenge A simulated team-based project delivered to corporate clients that creates space for participants to identify, evaluate and practise Essential Skills aligned to the Skills Builder Essential Skills Framework. Variants include Early Careers, Departmental, Leadership and Cross-Functional Collaboration.
• WildHearts Global Youth Summit The world's largest youth-led sustainability summit held during COP, connecting 35,000+ young people across five continents through sustainability lesson plans, assemblies, and Careers with Purpose podcasts.
• WildHearts Talent Leaders Summit An annual flagship event assembling L&D thought-leaders from across the business landscape to share perspectives on current trends, challenges and technologies influencing the profession, hosted at partner venues such as the Linklaters Head Office in London.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3,000,000+ lives transformed globally
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature4 records

Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered core and strategic.

• Coventry UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 April 2025From September 2025, WildHearts appointed as official content partner across Coventry University apprenticeships including Level 5 Operations Manager and Level 6 Chartered Manager/Leadership & Management programmes. Partnership delivers cutting-edge business education with guest lectures from Nestlé, Siemens, and Zurich.
• Social Enterprise UK (Buy Social Corporate Challenge)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Strategic supplier of Buy Social Corporate Challenge, world's largest commitment to social procurement. SEUK initiative with £355 million reinvested in social causes since 2016.
• Babson CollegecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWildHearts Talent is exclusively endorsed by Babson College, the world's top school for entrepreneurship. This endorsement validates the quality and methodology of WildHearts talent development programmes.
• NestlécoreGTM or Marketing PartnerCMDA apprenticeship pilot partner with two successful cohorts. Schools Programme partner. Guest lectures for apprenticeship programmes. WildHearts and Nestlé announced CMDA expansion plans in 2023 to open programme to mixed cohorts.
• SiemenscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerSocial procurement partner since 2020, impacting 8,000+ lives. Social Impact Award recipient at Siemens Supply Chain Management Awards. Schools Programme partner. Guest lectures for CMDA.
• Zurich InsurancecoreGTM or Marketing PartnerLong-standing partnership featured in World Economic Forum State of Social Procurement Report. Partner since 2016, impacting 8,700+ lives. Case study demonstrates social procurement journey alongside WildHearts Office.
• BarclayscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerSchools Programme partner. Talent development partner with Mark Coleman-Allan, Head of DE&I for COO, presenting at Talent Leaders Summit. Micro-Tyco Challenge participant.
• Hewlett Packard EnterprisecoreGTM or Marketing PartnerTalent Partners programme participant. Host of Talent Leaders Summit at Customer Innovation Centre. Early careers programme partner with Micro-Tyco Challenge and Future Talent Summit involvement.
• LinklaterscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerHost of WildHearts Talent Leaders Summit at Head Office. Schools Programme partner. Guest lectures for CMDA apprenticeship programmes.
• FINCAstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerMicrofinance implementation partner in Uganda. Partner for micro-loan distribution and financial inclusion programmes supporting women entrepreneurs.
• VeoliacoreGTM or Marketing PartnerTalent Partners programme participant. Intergenerational Micro-Tyco Business Challenge collaboration. Schools Programme partner. Guest lectures for CMDA.
• Ocado GroupcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerTalent development partner with Future Talent Summit participation. Thomas Gaskin, Talent Programme Manager, presenting at Talent Leaders Summit. Emerging Talent programme collaboration.
• BNP ParibascoreGTM or Marketing PartnerSchools Programme partner for COP Global Youth Summit. Tracey Fuller featured in Careers with Purpose podcasts. Social procurement partnership.
• WesleyancoreGTM or Marketing PartnerSchools Programme partner. Dan Gamson featured in Careers with Purpose podcasts. Guest lectures for CMDA programmes.
• TelosstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerFeatured alongside WildHearts at ProcureCon conference discussing social value through procurement. Charlie Wigglesworth led session with Zurich Insurance.
• Carbon Footprint UKstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner for Net Zero 2030 commitment. Assesses and helps reduce carbon emissions. Supports Carbon Neutral Plus+ certification.
• Microloan FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of WildHearts Group. Implements microfinance programme in Zambia. Ranked 2nd out of 35 African Financial Service Providers by 60 Decibels.

Scale indicators16 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Lyreco Group: Lyreco is Europe's largest B2B distributor of office supplies and workplace solutions, selling to the same enterprise customer base (multinational corporates across financial services, insurance, and industry) that WildHearts Office targets. It is the dominant scale competitor in WildHearts Office's primary product category.
• Office Depot (The ODP Corporation): Office Depot is a major North American B2B office supplies retailer selling a broad assortment of workplace products. It competes with WildHearts Office for the same enterprise procurement RFPs, though lacks the social-enterprise reinvestment angle that WildHearts uses to differentiate.
• Staples: Staples is one of the largest global office supplies retailers serving enterprise and SMB customers with broad product assortments and managed print services. It is a direct head-to-head competitor for WildHearts Office's enterprise contracts but operates as a traditional for-profit retailer.
• Coursera for Business: Coursera for Business is a major enterprise talent development platform offering online courses and credentialing to global corporate L&D buyers. It competes with WildHearts Talent for the same enterprise training budgets, though at much larger scale and via a digital-first delivery model.
• Grameen Bank: Grameen Bank is the pioneering global microfinance institution founded by Muhammad Yunus, serving millions of borrowers (primarily women) in rural and low-income communities. It is the macro-level comparable for WildHearts Foundation's microfinance model and impact methodology.

Direct peers

• General Assembly: General Assembly is a global talent development and skills training provider offering corporate L&D programmes, bootcamps, and apprenticeships to enterprise customers — directly comparable to WildHearts Talent's Micro-Tyco Challenge and apprenticeship offerings to enterprise HR and L&D teams.
• Kiva: Kiva is a global non-profit microfinance platform that crowdfunds zero-interest loans to underserved entrepreneurs, primarily women, in developing countries. It is the most direct comparable peer to WildHearts Foundation's StartHer microfinance programme serving 158,000+ women entrepreneurs.
• FINCA International: FINCA is a microfinance institution providing small loans and financial services to low-income entrepreneurs across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. It is both a peer to and an implementation partner of WildHearts Foundation's microfinance operations in countries like Uganda.
• Big Issue Group: Big Issue Group is a UK-based social enterprise that funds social impact through commercial activity (magazine sales, investment funds, employability programmes). It shares WildHearts' UK-based social-enterprise model with a profit-reinvestment mission and is comparable as a UK social-enterprise peer.

Emerging players

• Divine Chocolate: Divine Chocolate is a UK-based B Corp and social enterprise that sells consumer products (chocolate) and reinvests profits into farmer co-operatives in Ghana. It shares WildHearts' model of commercial product sales funding social impact, though in a different product category (CPG vs. office supplies/print).

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance7 records

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Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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