INDEPENDENT – ETHICAL – ARTISAN

We have exciting news! Mella Mella’s Pottery, Play, Cafe is a wonderful new studio/cafe that has opened in Chiswick and  have decided to choose our tea to appear on their shelves! We are extremely pleased to be a part of such an exciting community focused cafe. A place where you can create something unique and personal no matter your age. “You don’t have to be an artist to produce something you’ll be proud of.” – beautiful words from the lovely owner herself. So what do they do? Mella Mella’s is a fun, relaxing and creative ceramic, pottery workshop. They provide a warm welcome and unique experience in Chiswick. The shop…

“After a decade of creating notonthehighstreet.com, one of the first small business marketplaces in the world, I’ve now decided to continue my life’s quest, to bring colour to the world of grey. How? By continuing to believe, champion and shine a light on the incredible talent of creative small business owners and Artisans across the world.” – Holly When Holly came to us to discuss her concept for ‘Holly&Co‘ and whether we would like to be a part of it, we were honoured and extremely excited for what was to come. With a highly inspirational and successful business, notonthehighstreet.com Holly fully understands how to work with small businesses and use her…

This week we have arrived at a new destination, on the shelves of the wonderful GG Sparkes Traditional Butchers! The family run business has been established since 1952 and gone through FOUR generations. We love supporting small & family run business’ so when we read about their ethos we became VERY excited to be a part of it! GG Sparkes supplies Traditional Farmed meats specialising in Rare-breeds, Free-range & Organic. Guy Sparkes, The Master Butcher, has a great wealth of experience and knowledge within his field, and every aspect of his business. He has a passion for his profession making sure that GG Sparkes sells the best Produce, sourced from trusted…

#WEGIVEACUP is a huge part of The Kettle Shed‘s ethos, from the first box of tea we sold back in 2014 we have donated tea to homeless shelters across the UK. We want to share this blog with you for our lovely customers to see where your donations are going through the #WeGivaCup process. This month we took a batch of breakfast tea over to TSPH, (The Shelter Project Hounslow) to donate to their wonderful programme who provide 14 male guests’ hot food and accommodation from January to March inclusive.  These will mainly be individuals with no recourse to public funds, but a small percentage who have temporary housing needs will also be welcomed…

So Shedders, if you have been following us on Twitter and Facebook then you may have already seen that The Kettle Shed got picked as Dragon Den’s, Theo Paphetis‘ #SBS! In December, Zoe AKA. The Tea Lady, owner of The Kettle Shed, tweeted Theo about her business during ‘Small Business Sunday’ and was hand picked as a winner and the lovely Theo Paphitis retweeted this to his 500,000 Twitter followers.  The weekly initiative, set up by Theo in 2010, now has 1700 #SBS winners and supports small businesses in the UK. Small Business Sunday, shortened to the hashtag #SBS on Twitter. Theo is best known for appearing on Dragons Den on BBC Two. He is Chairman of Ryman Stationery plus Boux Avenue lingerie, Robert Dyas and…