Coffee by Tate

Started in 2011, our small roastery team focuses on sourcing and roasting the highest quality specialty coffees, grown by inspirational female and male producers, to be enjoyed across all Tate spaces.

Alongside quality, we value and invest in the relationships, sustainability, and equality behind our coffee, ensuring every kilo we buy is sourced equally between female and male producers using a procurement model we have developed to be as intentional as possible. This takes shape as our Gender Equality Project, which attempts to raise the agenda of gender equality by championing women coffee producers and family farmers who equitably share household income, resources and decision-making.

As a part of Tate Eats all profits made by the roastery are donated back to Tate, meaning every coffee or service you purchase from the roastery supports not only the farmers we work with at origin, but the gallery itself.

In the Roastery at Tate we value and invest in the relationships, quality, equality and sustainability of our coffee.

In the short term we aim to empower coffee producers of all genders throughout our supply chain by, where possible, returning to the same producers each year and ensuring that we invest in relationships and projects within all aspects of coffee growing communities.

We believe that creating equality within our supply chain contributes to the wellbeing and happiness of the families and communities we work with, enabling development, sustainability and increased coffee quality for the future.

We have been running this project since 2016, and still source coffee from the producers we worked with in that first year. This project has introduced us to some incredible producers and coffees that may have been missed through standard sourcing procedure.

Our range of coffees is comprised of individual, community and family producers and is designed to reflect the seasonality and diversity of coffee grown by producers across the globe.

Alongside our own production we also host a collective of slot roasters who lease out our roastery space ranging from from small businesses looking to take their first steps in roasting, to established multi-site cafes. We offer clients our advice and support to give an accessible and affordable route into coffee production.

We also offer contract and white label coffee production, where we will assist with sourcing, profiling, and roasting coffee on your behalf.

If you are interested in any of the coffees or services Coffee by Tate can offer, then get in touch with our team at coffee@tate.org.uk.