Supporting the arts through industry was a founding principle of Hundred House Coffee. Weaving in the non-profit to our day-to-day activities is something that came instinctively and to which we are committed. As the business grows, we are able to support more projects, and we have some exciting new ventures on the horizon for 2024.
Bringing our Art + Industry mandate to life is Gather – a cowork, creative and multi-use space in Ludlow, the heart of the Welsh Marches. We offer workshops, events, collaborations, contemporary culture.
To keep up to date with our activities, read our journals - ranging from city coffee guides through to origin focused interviews with artists.
We commission and lead on community-led projects. Most recently, Cwtch - a non-profit resource offering a window into makers and contemporary culture along the Welsh borders. Visit cwtchcwtch.org
Safina Radio Projects are itinerant online broadcasting platforms, each edition acting as a roving stage for conversation and performance, working with underrepresented artists and/or alongside contemporary art events.
Hundred House supported the third edition of the project at the Kochi Muziris Biennale.
The Beat Hotel, originally a Glastonbury tent, moved and expanded its programme to Marrakech. The festival features an incredible lineup of live music and DJs, one-off culinary collaborations, and a talks programme with some of todays great minds and voices. Hundred House Coffee supported the first edition in 2019, sending over a team and bringing over a sand heater for a much loved Turkish coffee bar.
We work with a few inner-city schools to highlight ethical business practices, food and drink sourcing, to the classroom. The programmes run for several months of the year, working closely with teachers to highlight the coffee story – from the farm to the cup.
The students are commissioned to work on creative products - whether packaging or 3D work such as drippers - that challenge and draw out everything they have learnt about the speciality coffee industry. We then use the best products to package coffee for teachers, for example. This year with our partner schools in the West Midlands, students will be designing and creating coffee drippers.
Over the course of 18 months we ran the Kulhar Project, bringing a ceramics wheel to major public events and offering visitors the opportunity to engage with the links between sustainability and creativity first hand.
We worked with Hopefully Made and Toucan Tango on 4 projects bringing screen printing to the wider community at major events or town centres. After lockdown, Tether represented an opportunity to create together, with one print visibly linked to the next.
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