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    Welcome to The Kettle Shed, Second Shot Coffee!

    We’re really proud to be supplying Second Shot Coffee with the full range of Kettle Shed teas. Welcome to The Shed, Second Shot Coffee! Second Shot Coffee is an incredible café based in Bethnal Green, London. Working with Café by Crisis and The Connection at St Martins in the Fields, Second Shot Coffee is staffed by formerly homeless individuals. All profits made from the café are used to give those members of staff training and one-to-one support to get them back into secure employment. As well as serving high quality food and drinks, Second Shot Coffee also acts as an after hours hub for the homeless community providing support and…

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    Vote GREEN! (not the party MATCHA of course!)

    Matcha – the revolution. Forget about the politics, vote for Matcha! The Matcha revolution is just around the corner! Gone are the days of coffee jitters! We have all been there right? It gets to mid-morning and you start to hit ‘the wall’, so you have a coffee to try and replenish and kick your energy levels up a bit, straight away you feel that amazing rush of energy that then unfortunately as The Guardian says “it sends you to the moon, jittery and anxious, with your heart skittering?”you then severely crash and burn on average 5-10 minutes after you had that coffee and then are even more drowsy than…

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    Why Give A Cup?

    “We Give A Cup” – It’s on our packets, but what does it actually mean? Helping the Homeless Here’s the short version: every time you buy a box of tea infusers, we donate tea directly to homeless shelters across the UK, so you buy a brew for someone. With the rising concerns (BBC 4 February 2015) about quietly increasing homelessness and poverty in the UK, we tried to find a way to help out. And since people forced to sleep rough or in shelters are probably the most in need of a really good cuppa, we thought we should donate the thing we do best! Tea is full of antioxidants…