Whether you are opening a cafe, improving your home brewing, or chasing SCA certification, there are over 140 UK roasters running courses and workshops. Training ranges from two hour home brewing sessions to multi day professional barista programmes.
Most roaster led training has an advantage over generic courses. You learn on the equipment and coffee you will actually be using. Wholesale roasters often include training as part of the supply deal, so if you are signing up for beans, ask what comes with it.
For home brewers, a cupping session or brew workshop is one of the best ways to improve quickly. You will learn more about dialling in your grinder in an afternoon with a professional than in months of trial and error at home.
200 Degrees started in 2012 in Nottingham, three blokes and an old roaster in a garage. They now operate from Heston Hou...
Simone and Roberto met working in a London restaurant in 2006 and launched 80 Stone in Croydon in 2012. Simone finished ...
Adams + Russell have roasted coffee from 8 Appin Road on Birkenhead's Argyle Industrial Estate since 1978, neighbours to...
Alfie & Co Coffee Roasters is a family roastery in Killearn, Stirlingshire, founded in 2014 by Paul Equi and named after...
Phil and a small team run this independent, family-owned specialty roaster from a unit at Manor Farm in Peppard Common, ...
Artisan Roast has been roasting specialty coffee in Edinburgh since 2007, one of Scotland's longest standing independent...
Bailies Coffee Roasters is a Belfast specialty roaster based at 27 Stockmans Way, BT9 7ET, supplying single origins, mic...
Baristocracy was founded in North Shields, Tyne and Wear in 2017 by Alex Forsyth and Kate Hudson, a family business shap...
Bay Coffee Roasters is a Welsh speciality roastery based at Parc Tanygroes in Cardigan, near Tresaith beach on the west ...
Bean 14 is a Fairtrade-certified coffee roaster based on La Rue des Reines in Guernsey, with more than twenty years of e...
Bean Brothers Coffee Company is a small batch specialty roaster set up in 2012 by two brothers from Huddersfield. The ro...
Bean Shot was founded in 2013 by Nick Law and roasts from a unit in Bruton, Somerset. The business operates a community ...
Bella Barista has been trading since 1998 from its base in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, operating as both one of th...
Big Dog Coffee Company is a specialty coffee roastery based in the Caerphilly Borough of South Wales. The team roasts on...
Bohemia Roasts is a micro coffee roastery and shop in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, trading from 9 Cross Keys Mews (PE19 2AR...
Brazier Coffee Roasters was founded in 2015 by Tom and Claire Brazier, who developed the idea while in Australia and tra...
Bridge Coffee Roasters has been roasting in South Wales since 1985, operating from Dyffryn Business Park in Ystrad Mynac...
Cafe Du Monde is a family-run Kent coffee and tea business founded in 1989 by David Latchem, with son Michael joining in...
Cafedirect is one of the most structurally distinctive businesses in UK coffee. Founded in 1991 by Oxfam, Traidcraft, Eq...
Caffe Society is a family-run business based in Sherburn in Elmet, near Leeds, started around 2000 by three brothers wit...
Campbell & Syme was founded in 2012 by Joe Syme after a trip to Portland, Oregon, where the city's coffee scene, and Stu...
Campervan Coffee Co was established in 2015 by a founder who, after travelling Europe and North Africa with his wife in ...
Caravan Coffee Roasters opened on Exmouth Market in early 2010, founded by Laura Harper-Hinton, Miles Kirby and Chris Am...
Carnival Coffee Roasters operates from a workshop in Penge, South East London, roasting speciality coffee and selling it...
Cartwheel Coffee Roasters is one of the longer-running independent roasteries in Nottingham, with a roastery and cafe in...
Carve Coffee Roasters is a Dorset roastery and cafe group based in Swanage, with the roastery on the Prospect Business P...
Carvetii Coffee Roasters roasts speciality coffee from Unit 3c, Threlkeld Business Park in the Lake District. The team b...
Casa Coffee Roasters, trading as Casa Espresso Ltd, is a family run speciality roaster in Shipley, West Yorkshire. Tony ...
Cast Iron Coffee Roasters is a family-run speciality roastery and coffee shop based at Units 11 and 12 The Mill, Stane S...
Chapel Street Coffee Company is a family-run roastery in Llangollen, North Wales, working in the shadow of Castell Dinas...
Chimney Fire Coffee is based at Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey, the UK's first net-zero certified wine estate, w...
Clifton Coffee Roasters was founded in Bristol in 2001 by James Fisher, who started out servicing espresso machines for ...
Climpson & Sons has been part of the Broadway Market scene in Hackney since 2002, when founder Ian Burgess moved from a ...
Coaltown Coffee Roasters is a speciality roaster based in Ammanford, a former anthracite mining town in Carmarthenshire,...
Coffi Dre is a bilingual Welsh and English speciality coffee roaster based in Caernarfon, Gwynedd. Coffees are roasted l...
Colombia Coffee Roasters is a family-run, Oxford-based roastery focused exclusively on 100% Colombian arabica, working d...
Copper Coffee Roasters is a speciality coffee roastery and cafe based at Bramley Hedge Farm in Cobham, Surrey. The roast...
Corban Coffee is an award winning specialty coffee roastery based at Chart Farm in Sevenoaks, Kent, founded in 2017. Nes...
Craft House Coffee is an independent West Sussex roastery that sources 100 percent high-grade Arabica with an 80-plus SC...
Crema the Crop is an independent roastery and coffee shop based on the Axminster Carpets Estate, Woodmead Road, Axminste...
Crosby Coffee was founded in Liverpool in 2014 by Jack Foster, who started roasting at home and selling at local markets...
Curious Roo is a specialty coffee roaster and wholesale supplier based at 11 Power Road, Chiswick, west London. Founders...
Curve Coffee Roasters was founded in 2016 by Tereza and Jon, who relocated from London to the Margate coast with a secon...
Danielle's Coffee was set up in May 2010 by Danielle, who built her career in coffee at Rick Stein's restaurants in Pads...
Horsebox Coffee Co was founded in May 2015 by Emily, who returned to South Oxfordshire after twenty years in London spec...
Dark Woods Coffee was founded in 2014 by three people with deep roots in the coffee industry. Damian, the senior roaster...
Dear Green Coffee Roasters was founded in Glasgow in 2011 by one woman with a single roaster. The name comes from Dear G...
Drury Tea & Coffee was founded in London in 1936 by three Italian brothers, beginning as a tea blender before turning to...
EDGE Tea & Coffee is a third-generation, family-run roastery near Arundel in West Sussex, founded in 1981 by Frank Edgcu...
Established Coffee is a Belfast specialty coffee roaster and cafe based at 54 Hill Street in the city's Cathedral Quarte...
Exchange Coffee Co. is a Lancashire roaster and tea merchant with coffee houses and roasting shops across Blackburn, Cli...
Founded in 1819 in the Cumbrian market town of Kendal, Farrer's is one of the UK's longest-standing tea and coffee merch...
Fire & Flow is a Cotswolds speciality coffee roaster founded by childhood friends Callum and Phil with Phil's wife Char....
Firebird Coffee Company is a small batch speciality roastery based at 71 to 75 Shelton Street in central London, founded...
The Flat Cap Coffee Roasting Company was founded in 2018 by Mark and Alex, a husband and wife team based in rural Wiltsh...
Forge Coffee Roasters is a Sheffield roastery on Don Road, sat on Newhall Road near where the Forge Inn once stood. Esta...
Frazer's Coffee Roasters was founded in Sheffield in 2014, roasting from the Arundel Coach House on Arundel Street in th...
Fuel and Fable is a speciality coffee roastery and shop in Christchurch, Dorset, built around the founder's twin loves o...
Grain and Grind started roasting in 2018 after installing a roaster inside one of their existing Scottish coffee shops, ...
Sleeper Coffee now trades as Groupwork Coffee Roasters, with the original sleepercoffee.com domain redirecting to groupw...
Hard Lines Coffee is a Cardiff-based speciality coffee roaster celebrating its tenth year in 2026. The roastery sits at ...
Hayling Island Coffee Society (HICS) is a small speciality roastery on Hayling Island in Hampshire, founded and run by A...
Heart & Graft started in James Guard's Manchester garage in 2012 as The Coffee Circle, becoming Heart & Graft in 2015 wh...
HEJ Coffee, pronounced 'hey' after the Swedish word for hello, was founded by Jeremy and Mathew after Jeremy's coffee to...
Herbert and Ward is a long-established coffee and tea business based in Rochester, Kent, founded in 1929 by Messrs Herbe...
Hot Numbers Coffee is a Cambridgeshire roastery and cafe business now marking 15 years of trading. The roastery sits at ...
H.R. Higgins is one of the oldest independent coffee roasters in Britain, founded by Harold Rees Higgins on 1 April 1942...
Hundred House Coffee roasts speciality coffee from the Welsh Borders, founded by head roaster Matthew Wade, a Q Arabica ...
Indigo Valley has been roasting since 2005, when it set out to bring together Fairtrade and speciality grade coffee at a...
Iron & Fire was founded in 2012 by Kevin, known as Coffee Kev, who returned from a decade in Melbourne and applied his s...
Island Roasted is the roasting arm of the I.O.W Espresso Co., based in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The business grew o...
The Island Tea & Coffee Co. is a tea and coffee producer based at Pritchetts Way in Rookley on the Isle of Wight, establ...
James Gourmet Coffee is a family roastery in the market town of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, roasting since 1999. The ran...
Jasper's Coffee is a specialty roaster based in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, transforming sustainably sourced beans into ...
Jericho Coffee Traders started in Oxford in 2009 when founders James and Lizzie bought a turquoise Vespa tuk-tuk and dec...
Joe Black Coffee and Tea is a Liverpool roaster with roots going back to 1950, when the business traded as Bellews and C...
Johnsons Coffee is a long-established family business based at 137 Hillsborough Old Road in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. T...
Jute Coffee is a small roastery in Thrapston, Northamptonshire, working with 100% arabica from small cooperatives and ha...
Kaffeehaus Coffee Roasters is a family founded roastery in Sacriston, County Durham, run by Austrian father and daughter...
Kontext Coffee Company is a specialty roastery on the Monmouthshire and Herefordshire border, founded by Katja Klein aft...
Limini Coffee is a specialty roastery based at Luddite Way Business Park in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, founded in 2008...
The Lincoln Tea and Coffee Company operates from Exchange Close in Lincoln as a wholesale supplier to the hospitality tr...
Lindfield Coffee Works was founded in 2015 in Lindfield, West Sussex and has grown into a multi-site operation with a fl...
London Calling Coffee Company roasts and packs daily from a unit at 3 Little Mundells in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshi...
Mac & Me Roasting has been supplying and training the hospitality trade from its base at Reed Farm Estate in Writtle, Es...
Machina Coffee is an Edinburgh roaster founded by Steve Glencross, who moved from the music industry and spent around tw...
Maison Dieu Coffee Roasters is based in the Old Sonoco building on Montrose Street, Brechin, and has been operating Brec...
Matthew Algie has roasted coffee in Glasgow since 1864 and grown into one of the UK and Ireland's largest commercial roa...
Maude Coffee Roasters is a small team roasting specialty coffee from a railway arch on Railway Street in Leeds. The roas...
Meletius is a speciality coffee roastery based at Wembley Commercial Centre in London (HA9 7UR), with a cafe at 37-39 Hi...
Method Roastery works from under the railway arches near Worcester Foregate Street station, where the roastery, café and...
Modern Standard Coffee is a Scottish speciality roaster founded by Lynsey Harley, with a roastery at 38 Cavendish Way, G...
Moonroast Coffee roasts at Chilton Manor Farm in the Candover Valley, Hampshire, supplying delis, farm shops and hospita...
New Ground Coffee is an Oxford-based B Corp roastery built around a social mission: helping people leaving prison find w...
North Star Coffee Roasters was founded in 2013 by Holly and Alex Kragiopoulos, after conversations with small-scale prod...
Northside Coffee is a Northumberland-based roastery that imports green coffee directly from farms and co-operatives arou...
Old Spike Roastery was founded in Peckham in 2015 by two childhood friends, with a mission to roast specialty coffee whi...
Origin Coffee is a Cornwall-based specialty roaster with the roastery in Porthleven and coffee shops in Bristol, London ...
Penningtons is a family run tea and coffee roaster based at Unit 12 Kendal Business Park, on the southern edge of the La...
PLOT Roasting is a London specialty coffee roaster, founded in 2019 and built around a stated mission to source and roas...
Pumphreys Coffee traces its origins to 1750, when Leigh Smith opened a coffee business in the Flesh Market in Newcastle,...
Quarter Horse Coffee is an independent roaster based in the West Midlands. The business was founded in 2012 in Oxford an...
Rainhill Coffee Roasters sits in the historic village of Rainhill near Liverpool, close to the George Stephenson Skew Br...
Redemption Roasters is a London coffee company with a social mission at its core: training people leaving prison with ba...
Relish Coffee is a small roaster based in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear. The team roast their own beans on site and sell th...
Ringtons was established in 1907 by Samuel Smith, who started with a £250 investment and a single horse-drawn cart deliv...
Rise & Grind Roastery is a Scottish speciality roaster operating from 104 Abercorn Street, Glasgow G53 7EE, with coffee ...
Roost Coffee and Roastery operates from two sites in Malton, North Yorkshire. The espresso bar sits in Talbot Yard, a Gr...
Round Hill Roastery has been roasting in Somerset since 2012, working from Unit 14 at Midsomer Enterprise Park near Bath...
Saints of Mokha is a family-run roastery in Leicester, established in 2016 and named after Ali Ben Omar, the Sufi Saint ...
Second City Coffee is a Manchester-rooted roastery and coffee house, with a tight-knit team operating from Quayside in W...
Secret Garden Roasters is a one-person roastery in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, founded in 2020 by Alex, who began working in ...
Skylark is a Brighton-based specialty roaster that operates as a registered charity (no. 1142607), trading under OCB Ini...
Small Batch Coffee Roasters is a Brighton and Hove specialty coffee business with a roastery in Portslade and a flagship...
Smith's Coffee has been roasting since 1936, making it one of the oldest coffee businesses in the UK. It started as a sm...
Square Mile Coffee Roasters was founded in 2008 in East London by James Hoffmann and Anette Moldvaer, both former World ...
St Martins Coffee Roasters is a family owned and operated specialty coffee roastery based at Pennbury Farm in Great Glen...
Stewarts Coffee Roasters is a Nottingham roastery based on the Robin Hood Industrial Estate in Sneinton. The site sells ...
Stokes Tea and Coffee has been roasting in Lincoln since 1902, now in its fourth generation under managing director Nick...
Stow Town Coffee has been roasting in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, since 2010. The site describes the business as ...
The Roastery at Tate is a specialty coffee operation based within the grounds of Tate Britain in London. Started in 2011...
Terra Coffee is an Edinburgh artisan roaster operating from 3 Smith Place in Leith, registered as Sacma Sapan Isler Limi...
Terrone is a speciality coffee roastery based in Tottenham, North London, founded in 2011 with a specific argument to ma...
The Coffee Counter is a Leicester roastery selling single origins and blends through its online shop, with a cafe also o...
The Coffee Officina was founded in 2013 by Marcella Fiori and Rory Lloyd, roasting from a unit at Housham Hall in Matchi...
The Isle of Wight Espresso Company is the wholesale and equipment arm of Island Roasted, a roastery and cafe operation b...
The Milk Shed is a specialty coffee roastery and cafe bar in Brighton, working from a building that was originally a dai...
Missing Bean opened in Oxford in 2009 as the city centre's first independently owned coffee shop. Roasting began in 2014...
The Roasting Shed began with the founders roasting coffee in their garden shed, driven by a love of drinking and sharing...
Thomsons is Scotland's oldest coffee roaster, founded in Edinburgh in 1841 by David Thomson before relocating to Glasgow...
Three Hills Coffee roasts in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, where a dedicated roastery and SCA-accredited barista trai...
Triple Co Roast is an open-access specialty coffee roastery in Bristol. The site invites anyone to visit, watch the team...
Tropic Coffee has been roasting in King's Lynn, Norfolk since 1983, founded by Martin Sanctuary and now joined by his so...
Two Chimps Coffee is a specialty roaster based in Oakham, Rutland, founded in 2016 by Andy and Laura. The business is bu...
Tynemouth Coffee Company was founded in 2009 by Paul Thompson on the North East coast of England, drawing on his 30-plus...
Ue Coffee Roasters was founded in 2009 by Dominic Boyett with the aim of becoming the first speciality coffee roaster in...
Union was founded in 2001 in east London by Steven Macatonia and Jeremy Torz, two scientists who encountered the America...
Viento Coffee Company is a micro-roastery based in Watford, Hertfordshire, with two cafes at 157 St Albans Road, Watford...
Volcano Coffee Works was founded in West Dulwich by New Zealand-born chef Kurt Stewart, who started by serving espresso ...
Wood St Coffee Roasters grew out of a weekly market stall at Wood Street Indoor Market in Walthamstow, where founders Cl...
Workshop Coffee is a London specialty roaster running an integrated model across sourcing, roasting, cafe operations, wh...
Yellow Bourbon Coffee Roasters is a roastery and coffee shop on Angel Street in Northampton's Cultural Quarter. Owner St...