Border Biscuits
Border Biscuits are on a mission to change the way the cookie crumbles. Baking in Lanarkshire, Scotland’s favourite premium biscuit brand uses 10% of profits to invest back into the local community.
Their fund, Border Community Support, gives to Lanarkshire causes, including local school projects, theatre groups and even tourism in Lanark – the last of which they've promised to deliver services for until August 2029.
As the UK’s most well-known out-of-home individually wrapped biscuit brand, they've been able to donate quite a bit of dough – reaching £1million in donations by February 2021. Such dedication saw them win the Commitment to the Community award, alongside the Scottish Family Business of the Year (Large) 2024 at the Herald Scottish Family Business Awards.
With a passion for their people, profits from biscuits also fund the Border Employee Volunteer Program which helps employees lend their skills in and around the local community and pick up a few new ones too. They're on a journey to do right by the environment, too, and in 2019 they removed 90% of plastic from their core range. All this is why you'll find them as a staple in our hamper and gift range.
So if you’re looking to turn your tea break into change, Border is the place to start. They say that where there’s tea, there’s hope. And with a Border Biscuit on the side, you can be sure of it.
John Cunningham founded Border Biscuits in 1984 from a tiny factory in Lanark.
The commercial bakery of the 80s had just four family recipes with as many people making them. Quality was always priority number one, which meant soon the delicious biscuits were creating enough of a storm to develop the range with biscuits like the popular Dark Chocolate Gingers and Viennese Whirls.
In 1996, expansion led the brand to its current home – a Lanarkshire factory where Border Biscuits now make more than one million biscuits a day.
Over the past four decades John grew the brand into a multi-million pound company employing 230 staff until his death in 2022. In true family-owned style, CEO Tina Cunningham continues John’s legacy and the brand’s reputation as one of the top biscuit choices in the UK.
CEO
Tina Cunningham