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Ethstat's Yasmin Halai-Carter: 'Innovation often starts where certainty ends'

Stuart Stone

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04 August 2026 • 9 min read

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CEO of social enterprise Ethstat reflects on how the Covid pandemic showed how quickly systems can move when there is urgency and political will

Yasmin Halai-Carter is chief executive and co-founder of Ethstat Ethical Stationery community interest company, which was recently awarded a King's Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development in recognition...

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