It is B Corp month, and in true B Corp spirit, we wanted to highlight some of our favourite fellow B Corp coffee roasters. With our recent re-certification we are pleased to be aligned with these great businesses, and we can proudly say that our commitment to environmental and social standards has paid off as we are one of the highest scoring B Corp coffee roasters in the world!
Read below, in alphabetical order, our favourite B Corp coffee roasters:
Caravan
B Corp score: 83.3
Location: North London
Caravan was started by three Kiwis, Chris, Laura, and Miles, who moved over to London from New Zealand in the early 2000s and started working, eating, and drinking our way around town, Europe and the world, all the while getting ideas and thinking “when we open our own place…”
Climpson & Sons
B Corp score: 110.4
Location: East London
Hailing from our roots as a market stall on Broadway Market in 2002, we are pioneers in the evolving UK specialty coffee scene. 20 years on, they continue to explore the possibilities of coffee sourcing, roasting, brewing, and education. It is important to them that they continue to learn from and alongside our coffee producers, wholesale partners, suppliers, and collaborators, with sustainability at the core.
Coal town
B Corp score: 98
Location: Ammanford
Ammanford is a small former mining community where anthracite coal (Black Gold) fuelled the local economy. With the closure of this local industry, Their plan is to bring back an industry & get this town producing a new form of black gold. Coffee.
Dark Woods
B Corp score: 147.4
Location: Huddersfield
Dark Woods is an adventurous, community-focused coffee roastery dedicated to responsibly sourcing specialty coffees from some of the world’s best producers. Their home is a converted Victorian textile mill at the foot of the West Yorkshire Pennines, surrounded by windswept moorland, drystone walls, and ancient woodland. This landscape and the people who live here help inspire how they craft our coffee.
Dear Green
B Corp score: 117.6
Location: Glasgow
It's us! We proudly recertified in 2024 and increased our score by 33.4 points! Dear Green was founded in 2011 and is a women-owned specialty coffee roastery. A people-first organisation, Dear Green prides itself on sourcing coffee responsibly and sharing it with our community, always with sustainable business practices. We also run the Glasgow Coffee Festival.
Glen Lyon
B Corp score: 104.2
Location: Aberfeldy
Our friends at Glen Lyon are speciality coffee roasters based in beautiful Aberfeldy. Set up in 2011 in a bothy in Highland Perthshire, Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters has grown into a thriving online and wholesale business with a team of ten supplying speciality coffee to over 150 cafes, restaurants and delis throughout the UK.
North Star
B Corp score: 85.9
Location: Leeds
North Star was founded to prove that an approach based on quality and impact can improve the viability of business models across the coffee supply chain. They have a vision of a more certain future for coffee, free from the volatility of the commodity market and resilient to the impacts of climate change. If you share our vision and love for great coffee, you too can take steps to safeguard its future!
Origin Coffee
B Corp score: 95.6
Location: London
Founded in 2004 by Tom Sobey, Origin Coffee is one of Europe's leading specialty coffee roasters. Leading change in the industry for nearly two decades, Origin remains committed to pursuing coffee excellence bound by one central ethos - to source, support, and champion farmers and producers through a sustainable, triple-bottom-line approach.
Red Bank Coffee Roasters
B Corp score: 83.2
Location: Kendal
Red Bank Coffee Roasters believes that only by visiting the producers that they work with are they truly able to understand the challenges that producers face and the conditions that they work in. By visiting year-on-year, they can be better partners and more informed buyers.
Redemption Roasters
B Corp score: 90.5
Location: London
Redemption Roasters is on a mission to reduce reoffending through coffee. With thirteen shops around London, they've come a long way since their first opening on Lamb's Conduit Street, but the mission has always remained the same: to reduce reoffending through coffee.
UNION
B Corp score: 106.3
Location: London
Founded in 2001 by Jeremy Torz and Steven Macatonia, Union was created to have a positive influence on the livelihoods of small-scale farmers and their workers. Today, the diverse team of over 75 Unionistas source, roast, and supply ethically sourced, high-quality coffee to speciality cafes and restaurants, supermarkets, and direct to consumers via unionroasted.com. Working with over 40 producer partners globally, Union goes beyond certification, building long-term relationships with producers and increasing their income through paying higher prices linked to coffee quality - positively impacting over 13,000 family farms globally.
VOLCANO/ASSEMBLY
B Corp Score: 93.1
Location: London
Founded in 2010, Volcano/Assembly is a small team of around 30 passionate coffee experts who believe in speciality coffee’s potential to redefine how value is attributed and ultimately ensure that everybody within the supply chain receives fair opportunity and fair reward. We own and operate two specialty coffee brands (Volcano Coffee Works and Assembly Coffee), both of which source and roast specialty-grade coffees to supply to cafes, restaurants, and catering outlets around the UK and abroad.