OverHerd Oat milk, in powder form North Yorkshire

Over Herd make oat milk powder. You add water in the cafe, and the result is fresh oat milk made the moment it goes into your cup. The reasoning is simple. Shop-bought oat milk is around 90% water, and shipping all that water across the country, often across continents, creates a great deal of packaging, waste, and carbon for something we have plenty of out of the tap. Over Herd took the water out, made the rest in Yorkshire, and left the easy bit for us to add at this end.

For the cafe, that means the oat milk in your coffee or tea was mixed in our kitchen this morning. It also means a fraction of the cartons we used to throw away. The ingredient list is short and readable, which we like.

Impact

580 litres of water saved per litre vs dairy 2.3 kg of CO₂ saved per litre vs dairy 10x less packaging than a milk carton 91% packaging reduction per pouch 100% recyclable LDPE pouch, single material Carbon-neutral printing

Flawsome! Cold-pressed juices made from wonky and surplus fruit | London

Flawsome! make cold-pressed juices, sparkling drinks, and health shots from fruit that would otherwise have been thrown away. Not damaged fruit, not poor-quality fruit, just the wrong shape, the wrong size, the wrong colour, or the wrong batch arriving on the wrong day for a supermarket order. Karina and Maciek built the company around a simple observation: nature does not grow uniform fruit, but our food system pretends it does, and the difference shows up in landfills.

We're trialling their range in the cafe at the moment and the story behind the brand sits very close to how we think about food and waste. They are a certified B Corp and a certified Social Enterprise. They pay farmers fairly for produce that would otherwise be a loss, support over 200 small farms across Europe, and channel profits into biodiversity work and drink donations to charities like The Felix Project and FareShare. We've also applied to become an official stockist.

Impact

77 million pieces of wonky and surplus fruit rescued 4,901 tonnes saved to date 200+ farmers supported 39,000 drinks donated to charities B Corp certified since 2021 Certified Social Enterprise

Who Gives A Crap Recycled and bamboo toilet roll, kitchen roll, and tissues | UK

Who Gives A Crap make the loo roll in our bathrooms. Their paper is made from either 100% recycled fibres or FSC-certified bamboo, never virgin trees, which matters because around a million trees are cut down every day for conventional toilet paper. The packaging is colourful, plastic-free, and recyclable. The product itself is genuinely good, which is the only reason any of the rest of it would matter to us.

What sets them apart is what happens after the sale. Who Gives A Crap donate 50% of their profits to non-profits working to provide clean water and sanitation in places where billions of people still don't have it. Around the world, 1.4 million lives are lost each year to causes that proper toilets and clean water would prevent. Buying loo roll won't fix that on its own. Buying loo roll from a company that gives half its profits to fix it is a small thing that adds up.

Impact

£11+ million donated to clean water and sanitation projects to date 50% of profits donated, every year 575,082 people given access to improved water and sanitation in 2023 B Corp certified FSC certified Zero virgin trees used

If you know a maker, grower, or supplier whose work belongs alongside these, we'd love to hear from you. Send us a note at cafe@jamyang.co.uk