Blog — Inspiration

Calling all festival goers - coffee bags; a simple necessity to keep you going this festival season So, it’s festival season and we are all too familiar with the buzzing excitement this brings, whether this involves a small camping trip to a local festival or the biggest music festival in the country, many of us find ourselves pining for a coffee to keep us powering through. However, in 2019, with over 200,000 people attending festivals such as Glastonbury, food and drink stalls are constantly overcrowded with hundreds of people- desperate to cure that morning hangover. Who wants that when your...

What do guests need when they get to their hotel room? A trip away is a time for relaxation, refreshment, indulgence and ease – so why should customers compromise when it comes to their coffee? We’re all used to seeing luxurious bedding, lighting, and flat screen TV’s in hotel rooms, but when it comes to coffee it’s often just a couple of sachets of instant coffee and some UHT milk; somehow, this doesn’t seem to fit with the fluffy slippers and silk dressing gown which it’s likely to be displayed beside. Us Brits are becoming more coffee conscious, and are...

I’m a member of Enterprise Nation, a fantastic organisation that helps tens of thousands of people start and grow their businesses. Over the last year, I’ve attended many of their monthly meetups and weekly online masterclasses, listened to their member podcast series, attended several of their meet the buyer/expert events, and even travelled to Paris with them on an export trade mission. Plus they’ve become one of my customers, buying my coffee for one of their own events. So when I received an email from them inviting me to Number 10 (Downing Street, that is), I was genuinely thrilled at...

(12 things I’ve learnt about starting a startup - part 2) In part 1 of the twelve things I’ve learnt since leaving corporate life and starting my own business, I wrote about the excitement, the flexibility and the amazing people I’ve met since venturing out on my own. In this second part, I continue my observations about the differences between corporate life and startup life, with another six ups and downs on this rollercoaster ride. Hold on tight… 1.     You have to make all the decisionsSome more irony for me here as when I used to manage a relatively large...