Left to right - Eve our Founder with a panel of graduates, Gabriel, Louise, Rasha & Aashifa at London Coffee Festival Building a Coffee Community A few weeks ago we launched our three-part series which addressed how we use coffee as a tool to empower individuals, benefit the coffee industry and create a
Mental Health in the workplace This week saw World Mental Health Day 2018. According to the mental health charity Mind, one in four people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year. This blog addresses the relationship between mental health and working in hospitality, and identifies strategies to support mental health in
The Power of Coffee As you might have guessed, we’re pretty keen on coffee here at Well Grounded. On #InternationalCoffeeDay we’re celebrating the power of coffee to transform lives. Coffee is diverse and means something different to all of us. For some it’s taken milky with sugar, for others it’s straight up black. Regardless
Empowering women through social enterprise On International Women’s Day we are reflecting on the role social enterprise can have on female empowerment. In this article, we look at diversity, social enterprise and showcase the women we have supported through Well Grounded. I (Eve) started Well Grounded in 2016, with my sole objective being to make
Dale Harris winning World Barista Championship 2017 in Seoul. Image credit Coffee Business World. Catapult your career in coffee with competitions The current World Barista Champion is the UK’s Dale Harris, wholesale director at Has Bean, a coffee roastery in Stafford. World champ. 1st place out of 7 billion! Or, more accurately, out
Is social enterprise the future? In 2015 I quit my job in charity management to start something I wasn’t sure would actually work, all I knew was that there must be a way I could connect my love of coffee with my commitment to social change. It was at that point that I started my
To celebrate a very successful 8-week Specialty Barista Traineeship in partnership with Gather & Gather, our graduates ran a pop-up cafe inside La Marzocco HQ in London. We were pleasantly surprised by the overwhelming support from all our friends and partners who came along, not to mention all our previous graduates. It was truly
Sarah Robinson! Thanks to our good friends Blue Tiger, we offered all our graduates a chance to WIN a trip to Berlin. To enter, they had to answer the following questions in any form they wished: How do you think you have progressed since you first met Well Grounded? What could be done to improve
2017 has been a massive year so far for us at Well Grounded. The team has grown with the addition of a new Head of Coffee and a Project & Marketing Manager. To add to the excitement was the launch of our new training academy in Tower Hamlets! In August, the whole Well Grounded team packed
There is a breadth and depth to Tokyo’s coffee scene that’s very distinctive. From traditional coffee shops embracing old Japan to a new wave of highly specialist cafés embodying the country’s attention to detail and unique approach to hospitality. Most strikingly, during our time in Tokyo, every coffee encounter was driven by a desire to educate and
