Our suppliers

We try to work with small, local and ideally organic sup­pli­ers wherever we can.  We think it’s the right thing to do (see our val­ues) – but it also makes life more inter­est­ing.  Here are a few of the com­pan­ies that we count ourselves lucky to work with:

Born & Bread

We think Born & Bread make some of the best bread in Lon­don. All of their loaves are hand­made using a nat­ural sour­dough starter, and baked in a wood-fired oven. We par­tic­u­larly like the Pagnotta – a two kilo beast of a loaf, 100% sour­dough with no added yeast, it makes great sand­wiches and fant­astic toast.

Cheg­worth Valley

We buy deli­cious apples, pears and pressed juices from this organic fruit farm in Kent, along with soft fruit in the sum­mer. Look out for Cheg­worth Val­ley at your local farm­ers’ mar­ket.

www.chegworthvalley.com

Cli­mpson & Sons

The organic-Fairtrade Per­uvian Arab­ica beans that go into our espressos, cap­pucci­nos and lattes are freshly roas­ted for us at Cli­mpson & Sons’ tiny but state-of-the-art roast­ery in East Lon­don. A medium-dark roast brings out the beans’ rich, chocol­atey flavour.

www.webcoffeeshop.co.uk

Infin­ity Foods

Brighton-based work­ers’ co-op Infin­ity Foods spe­cial­ises in organic and Fairtrade whole­foods. They sup­ply us with pulses, grains, nuts, dried fruit and bak­ing ingredi­ents, as well as envir­on­ment­ally friendly clean­ing products.

www.infinityfoods.co.uk

Long­wood Farm

Every Thursday, Mat­thew Unwin of Long­wood Farm in Suf­folk sup­plies us with fant­astic qual­ity organic meat and eggs. Long­wood is unusual in that the farm pro­duces beef, lamb, pork and poultry (eggs are from a neigh­bour­ing farm), and Mat­thew is a skilled butcher as well as a farmer.

www.longwoodfarm.co.uk

Trop­ical Wholefoods

You might think it strange to get excited about a dried apricot. But that would be because you haven’t tried a dried Hunza apricot from Trop­ical Whole­foods. Their dried man­goes and chewy banana chips are pretty fine too, and as a com­pany they have a very strong fair trade ethos, with many of their products cer­ti­fied organic, Fairtrade, or both.

www.tropicalwholefoods.co.uk

Vin­tage Roots

When provid­ing wine for an event, we turn to Vin­tage Roots, the organic wine experts. They also sup­ply organic beers, ciders and spir­its, and sell retail as well as wholesale.

www.vintageroots.co.uk