Ethical sourcing and subscription models are a natural fit. When a roaster has committed, recurring buyers, they can make longer term commitments to the farmers and cooperatives they buy from. That means better prices, more stable relationships, and higher quality coffee for everyone involved.
Over 120 UK roasters combine some form of ethical credential with a subscription service. That includes direct trade, organic, Fairtrade, and B Corp certified roasters. The range of approaches varies widely, from roasters who visit every farm personally to those who work through verified importers with transparent pricing.
The simplest way to drink more ethically is to buy from a roaster who tells you exactly where your coffee comes from and what they paid for it. Many on this list publish their green buying prices. Others share detailed sourcing reports on their websites. Transparency is the common thread.
92 Degrees began in Liverpool and has expanded across the UK at a pace that is hard to ignore. The brand now operates lo...
Anne and Joe O'Hara came back from a backpacking trip around Central America in 2000 and spotted a gap: nobody was doing...
Ancoats Coffee Co. is a Manchester speciality roaster founded in 2013 by Jamie Boland, based in the historic Royal Mills...
Apostle Coffee was founded in 2016 by Jon and Charlotte, who run an off grid roastery in the heart of the Shropshire Hil...
Artisan Roast has been roasting specialty coffee in Edinburgh since 2007, one of Scotland's longest standing independent...
Assembly Coffee was founded in 2015 in Brixton, south London, growing directly out of a six-month consultation process w...
Atkinsons Coffee Roasters and Tea Merchants traces its roots to 1837, when it opened in Lancaster as The Grasshopper Tea...
Barista Cats is a family run roastery based in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, hand roasting small batches to order and s...
Baytown Coffee Company roasts daily in a converted cowshed on a family farm just outside Whitby, on the North Yorkshire ...
Beanberry Coffee Company is a small batch roaster based in Woking, Surrey, focused on speciality grade Arabica with a st...
Bella Barista has been trading since 1998 from its base in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, operating as both one of th...
Bird & Wild was founded in 2017 around a single certification that most roasters ignore: Bird Friendly, issued by the Sm...
Little Birdie Coffee is a small batch roaster based in Alyth, rural Perthshire, founded after the owner first encountere...
Blossom Coffee Roasters launched in Manchester in 2020 with sourcing transparency at the heart of the business. Since th...
Blue Goose Coffee is a UK speciality roaster built around a simple promise: barista-quality coffee with as little enviro...
Boona Boona started in a garden shed in Totterdown, Bristol, before moving to a 10kg Roastmax roaster in an industrial u...
Brazier Coffee Roasters was founded in 2015 by Tom and Claire Brazier, who developed the idea while in Australia and tra...
Cafedirect is one of the most structurally distinctive businesses in UK coffee. Founded in 1991 by Oxfam, Traidcraft, Eq...
Cairngorm Coffee was founded by Robi Lambie in 2014 around a kitchen table in Newtonmore, and now roasts from a dedicate...
Campbell & Syme was founded in 2012 by Joe Syme after a trip to Portland, Oregon, where the city's coffee scene, and Stu...
Caravan Coffee Roasters opened on Exmouth Market in early 2010, founded by Laura Harper-Hinton, Miles Kirby and Chris Am...
Caribe Coffee Co. is a family business based at Fairmoor in Morpeth, Northumberland, founded in 2018 by Wilmer Carcamo, ...
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...
Cast Iron Coffee Roasters is a family-run speciality roastery and coffee shop based at Units 11 and 12 The Mill, Stane S...
Chimney Fire Coffee is based at Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey, the UK's first net-zero certified wine estate, w...
Chipp Coffee Co. is a Leeds speciality roaster founded in 2016 by Zach Chipp, who returned to his hometown after three y...
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 ...
CLO Coffee was founded in 2008 by Nick and Linda Castle, who set out to swap career dissatisfaction for a social busines...
Clumsy Goat Coffee is a speciality coffee roaster and equipment retailer based at Chesterfield House, Lloyd Street, Whit...
Coaltown Coffee Roasters is a speciality roaster based in Ammanford, a former anthracite mining town in Carmarthenshire,...
Coffee Bean Shop was founded in 2008 by Lizzie Powell and is based in Ashford, Kent. The business began as a personal re...
Founded in early 2008, Coffee Real roasts speciality coffee in Horsham, West Sussex, working directly with farming famil...
Coffeelink is an Ipswich family business founded by Azzouz and Rebecca on 25 August 2005, with the first cafe opening on...
Colco Coffee is a family-run roaster based at Manor Farm in Eton Wick, Berkshire, with roots on a working coffee farm in...
Colombia Coffee Roasters is a family-run, Oxford-based roastery focused exclusively on 100% Colombian arabica, working d...
Colonna Coffee is a Bath-based roastery founded by Maxwell and Lesley Colonna-Dashwood. The story began in Australia in ...
Cooper & Co is one of Jersey's oldest surviving locally owned businesses, founded in 1834 by Thomas Cooper, Richard Coop...
Copper Coffee Roasters is a speciality coffee roastery and cafe based at Bramley Hedge Farm in Cobham, Surrey. The roast...
Craft House Coffee is an independent West Sussex roastery that sources 100 percent high-grade Arabica with an 80-plus SC...
Crankhouse Coffee launched in 2014 in Exeter, beginning in a single car garage before moving through a converted barn ne...
Creation Coffee is a small Cheshire roastery run by Jon Cook from a log cabin at the bottom of his garden in Weaverham, ...
Cricklewood Coffee Roasters is a small-batch specialty roaster and cafe in north-west London, founded in 2018 by James. ...
Crosby Coffee was founded in Liverpool in 2014 by Jack Foster, who started roasting at home and selling at local markets...
Cult Coffee Roasters opened in 2014 as a cafe on Buccleuch Street in Edinburgh's Newington neighbourhood, growing from t...
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...
Darkhouse Coffee Roasters was formed in 2019 by Jiri Buchtela, a Cumbria based barista who learned his trade as a coffee...
Dear Green Coffee Roasters was founded in Glasgow in 2011 by one woman with a single roaster. The name comes from Dear G...
Django Coffee Co. is a Manchester-based specialty roaster founded after its founder returned from five years of travel, ...
Double Trouble Coffee is a small Welsh roastery founded by two sisters and their families, named for the duo at the hear...
Easy Jose Coffee is a Bath-based roastery built around partnerships with indigenous coffee-producing communities. The fl...
Electric Coffee Co. is a London roastery with a cafe at 40 Haven Green in Ealing and additional sites at Goldhawk Road, ...
Elsewhere Coffee is a South East London roastery and brew bar based at Unit 3 Titan Business Estate, Ffinch Street, Dept...
Established Coffee is a Belfast specialty coffee roaster and cafe based at 54 Hill Street in the city's Cathedral Quarte...
Extract Coffee Roasters is a Bristol speciality roastery founded in 2007, with its origins famously in a chicken shed be...
Ferrari's Coffee traces back to 1927, when Vittorio Ferrari settled in South Wales from Italy and built a following for ...
Figment Coffee roasts in Aberdeen and runs two cafes in the city, at 70 Countesswells Road and 33 to 35 Fountainhall Roa...
Flaming Bean Coffee Roastery is a small Cheshire micro-roaster run by Steve and Karen, founded in 2012. Steve trained wi...
Fountain Rock Coffee Roasters is a speciality roastery in Weymouth, Dorset, founded by Andrew, a scientist by background...
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...
Gillards of Bath is a family-owned tea and coffee merchant trading from Guildhall Market in Bath, with roots going back ...
Girls Who Grind Coffee is an independent, female-founded speciality coffee roastery founded in 2017 by Casey LaLonde, wh...
Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters was founded in 2011 by Fiona Grant, who started out with a five-kilo roaster in a bothy next t...
Glesga Roasters is a Glasgow coffee roastery and shop run as an initiative of Bishopbriggs Community Church (Scottish Ch...
Grain and Grind started roasting in 2018 after installing a roaster inside one of their existing Scottish coffee shops, ...
Grey Seal Coffee is a North Norfolk roaster founded in 2012, bringing third wave coffee to the region from a working far...
Grind is a London coffee company that grew from a single Shoreditch cafe, opened in 2011, into a B Corp certified roaste...
Grumpy Mule is an independent coffee roaster based in Meltham, Yorkshire, roasting since 2006 and now part of the Cafédi...
Hayman Coffee is a specialty coffee roaster founded in 2014 by Antonio, who left a corporate career after a visit to a B...
Heartland Coffee Roasters started in 2005 when Mal and Tara began roasting commercially in London after moving from New ...
Hermanos Coffee Roasters was founded in 2018 by brothers Victor and Santiago Gamboa with Adnan Millwala, starting as a W...
Horsham Coffee Roaster started in 2012 in a garage in West Sussex with a 1kg roaster, selling at Horsham food market bef...
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 ...
Imperial Jade Coffee is a Kent-based roaster sourcing exclusively from Yunnan province in China, a coffee-growing region...
J. Atkinson and Co., trading as Atkinsons Coffee Roasters and Tea Merchants, is a Lancaster based coffee roaster and tea...
Jackalope Joe Coffee Co is a one-person micro-roastery in Spalding, Lincolnshire, run by founder Hannah from home around...
James Gourmet Coffee is a family roastery in the market town of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, roasting since 1999. The ran...
Kiss the Hippo is a London specialty roaster that opened its roastery in 2018 and has built a strong sustainability posi...
Kokebi Coffee is a Hertfordshire roaster based at Unit 6, The Maltings Business Centre in Stanstead Abbotts, SG12 8HG. T...
Lalico Coffee is a UK specialty roaster founded by Glenn, offering green beans, roasted whole beans and freshly ground c...
Leicester Coffee House Company is a small roastery and coffee shop at 110 Granby Street, Leicester, named after the orig...
Lindfield Coffee Works was founded in 2015 in Lindfield, West Sussex and has grown into a multi-site operation with a fl...
Lost Sheep Coffee was founded in 2012 by Stuart and Sarah, who picked up a love of specialty coffee in Melbourne and bro...
Lucid Coffee Roasters is based at Unit 5, Kennedy Way, Belfast, and was founded in 2021 by Stephen Houston, a coffee pro...
Machina Coffee is an Edinburgh roaster founded by Steve Glencross, who moved from the music industry and spent around tw...
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...
Monkey Board Coffee is a roastery based at Compass Industrial Park in south Liverpool, working across single-origin coff...
Monmouth Coffee is a long-standing London independent that has been roasting and retailing from its Covent Garden shop s...
Mont58 Coffee is a certified B Corporation based in South-East London, founded by husband-and-wife team Shai and Maya. T...
Mr Tinto is a Croydon roastery founded in 2017 by Francisco, a Colombian who started by selling coffee from a bicycle ou...
Nairobi Coffee is a long-established wholesale and foodservice roaster operating from an industrial unit in Watford, Her...
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...
Northern Tea Merchants is a Chesterfield tea and coffee specialist with three generations of the Pogson family at its co...
Northside Coffee is a Northumberland-based roastery that imports green coffee directly from farms and co-operatives arou...
Notes is a London coffee business co-founded in 2010, with co-founder Fabio building close ties with producers who pract...
Obadiah is a specialty roastery based in Edinburgh, founded in 2017. The business is built around a defined roasting phi...
OddKin Coffee is a small batch specialty roaster based at Unit 18 Kenn Court on Roman Farm Road in Hengrove, Bristol. Fo...
Old Spike Roastery was founded in Peckham in 2015 by two childhood friends, with a mission to roast specialty coffee whi...
Olfactory Coffee Roasters was founded in 2013 in Cornwall by a couple who started drinking specialty coffee during unive...
Origin Coffee is a Cornwall-based specialty roaster with the roastery in Porthleven and coffee shops in Bristol, London ...
Outpost Coffee is a small, independent specialty coffee roastery based at 32 Salisbury Square in Nottingham (NG7 2AB), w...
Owens Coffee roasts at The Roastery in Endsleigh, Ivybridge, Devon. Every coffee is certified organic and Fairtrade, and...
Ozone Coffee UK roasts daily at its Stafford site on the Ladfordfields Industrial Estate, supplying a small group of Lon...
Pact Coffee was founded in 2012 by Stephen Rapoport and started life trading as Your Grind before becoming Pact. The bus...
Paddy & Scott's is a Suffolk coffee roaster founded in 2007, when Paddy and Scott started out on a two kilo roaster nick...
Perky Blenders is an East London specialty coffee roaster based at Unit 10, Acacia Business Centre in Leytonstone. The r...
Pharmacie Coffee Roasters was founded in 2015 by Rick, who had previously run coffee shops in Brighton, Hove and Kemp To...
Pink Lane Coffee opened on Pink Lane in Newcastle in 2012, just across from Central Station, and the roastery grew from ...
PLOT Roasting is a London specialty coffee roaster, founded in 2019 and built around a stated mission to source and roas...
Podda & Wren is a specialty coffee roaster based at 4 Elephant Yard in Kendal, Cumbria, on the edge of the Lake District...
Pure Roast Coffee is a third-generation family business based in Northern Ireland, founded in 2006 by Martin Symington a...
Quarter Horse Coffee is an independent roaster based in the West Midlands. The business was founded in 2012 in Oxford an...
Real Deal Roasters has been hand-roasting coffee on the outskirts of Deal in Kent since 2013. The roastery uses two beau...
Red Bank Coffee Roasters is an online roastery built around close producer relationships rather than broker catalogues. ...
Redber Coffee has roasted in Guildford, Surrey since 2011 and operates from an industrial unit at Merrow Depot Industria...
Rise & Grind Roastery is a Scottish speciality roaster operating from 104 Abercorn Street, Glasgow G53 7EE, with coffee ...
Roasting Plant is an American-born coffee concept with five London cafes, in Gracechurch Street, London Bridge, The Stra...
Rocket Monkey Coffee is a roastery and coffee house at 33 Burns Statue Square in Ayr town centre, run by a small team th...
Rockhopper Roaster is a micro-roastery founded by Kate, a one-person operation that started in Bognor Regis and has sinc...
Root and Branch is a Belfast specialty roaster founded by Simon Johnston and Ben Craig, now marking ten years in coffee....
Round Hill Roastery has been roasting in Somerset since 2012, working from Unit 14 at Midsomer Enterprise Park near Bath...
Rounton Coffee roasts from a converted granary in East Rounton, North Yorkshire, where a small team grew the business ou...
Routes Coffee is an Oxford roaster, based in an industrial unit at Fenchurch Court, and the UK's first and only Certifie...
Sea Island Coffee was founded in 2007, in the wake of the Third Wave coffee movement, and grew out of a sister business ...
Seamoor Coffee is a Peak District roastery based at Riders Point on Bridge Street in Bradwell, sourcing from independent...
Seven Districts Coffee is a Lincolnshire roastery built around storytelling. Each coffee is named after a local fable ti...
Smith's Coffee has been roasting since 1936, making it one of the oldest coffee businesses in the UK. It started as a sm...
Source Climate Change Coffee is a Yorkshire-based roaster founded by Cristina Talens, who built a career in ethical trad...
Spiller and Tait is a UK coffee roaster founded by Simon Spiller and David Tait, selling whole bean, ground and decaffei...
Square Mile Coffee Roasters was founded in 2008 in East London by James Hoffmann and Anette Moldvaer, both former World ...
Stokes Tea and Coffee has been roasting in Lincoln since 1902, now in its fourth generation under managing director Nick...
Sustain Coffee is a Hertfordshire roastery and cafe based at York House on Salisbury Square in Hatfield, trading as Sust...
Swan Song Coffee is a solo-operated speciality micro-roastery in Salford, Manchester, founded in 2018 by Josh Wilson and...
Symva Coffee Roasters is a family-run roastery and coffee shop on Church Road in Hove, with the roastery operating downs...
Tank Coffee is a Greater Manchester roastery based in Leigh, with a long-standing focus on African origins alongside Lat...
The Roastery at Tate is a specialty coffee operation based within the grounds of Tate Britain in London. Started in 2011...
The Bean Shop was founded in 2003 by John and Lorna Bruce on George Street in Perth, Scotland, and has been roasting and...
The Coffee Officina was founded in 2013 by Marcella Fiori and Rory Lloyd, roasting from a unit at Housham Hall in Matchi...
The Ethiopian Coffee Company is a London business focused exclusively on Ethiopian coffee, run from a cafe at 61 Amwell ...
The House of Coffee is a small Bedfordshire roaster operating from two sites in Leighton Buzzard. The retail shop sits a...
Missing Bean opened in Oxford in 2009 as the city centre's first independently owned coffee shop. Roasting began in 2014...
The Roastery at Bella Barista is the in-house roasting arm of Bella Barista, a Wellingborough-based espresso machine ret...
Thomsons is Scotland's oldest coffee roaster, founded in Edinburgh in 1841 by David Thomson before relocating to Glasgow...
Trading Post Coffee Roasters opened its first coffee house on Ship Street in Brighton in January 2017, combining a coffe...
Triple Co Roast is an open-access specialty coffee roastery in Bristol. The site invites anyone to visit, watch the team...
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...
Uplands Roast is a specialty roastery focused entirely on Vietnamese coffee, roasting daily in Edinburgh. The founders s...
Vagabond Coffee Roasters has been roasting in north London since autumn 2014, working from a 5kg Giesen and supplying th...
VeliK Coffee is a small family-run roastery based in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, run by two adults with three young helper...
Volcano Coffee Works was founded in West Dulwich by New Zealand-born chef Kurt Stewart, who started by serving espresso ...
Weanie Beans has been sourcing and roasting coffee since 2007. The roaster works on a direct trade model, paying above w...
White Rose Coffee Roasters operates from Halifax in West Yorkshire and carries the Made in Yorkshire mark. Head roaster ...
Wild Pen Coffee Roasters is based in Pendle, Lancashire, taking its name and outlook from Pendle Hill. The roastery focu...
Workshop Coffee is a London specialty roaster running an integrated model across sourcing, roasting, cafe operations, wh...
Yallah Coffee is a single origin specialty roaster based in Cornwall with a stated mission to put honesty and social res...