With a limited budget, our journey began in 2013, selling home-made cakes at the Stonehenge Summer Solstice. This was followed by a ‘guerilla cafe’ on the Stone Circle at Glastonbury Festival, where we set-up an outdoor spot for exchanging chai tea with those willing to share a skill or gift of their own – an old item, poem or piece of artwork perhaps!
In subsequent years, we moved into market stalls, gigs, club nights, organising events and then, from 2016, dived head-first into doing festival season after season! It remains a privilege to be part of the UK’s amazing independent events industry, and we’ve now branched into wedding and marquee hire services too.
In 2022, nearly 10 years on from our humble beginnings and with half of the original team having gone their separate ways, two of our dreams were realised as we officially became part of Glastonbury and won the ‘Inspirational Trader’ award at Shambala.
From day one we have collected and ‘tatted’ as we’ve gone by, building up the interior and exterior of the cafe over time from donated or found items, home-made furniture, artwork, instruments, crockery and more!
Our policy has always been that anyone who contributes something to our ever evolving space can eat for free. Therefore we encourage musicians, dancers, poets, artists, teachers and anyone else to get involved with what we offer.
We aim to work with independent businesses and support up & coming creatives wherever possible, building up long lasting relationships. The vast majority of our food & drink suppliers are organic and ethical.
Our Blog shows our colourful history in a bit more detail – check it out.
ONE MAN’S TAT IS ANOTHER MAN’S TREASURE!
Here’s a little video we knocked up in 2018 to celebrate our 5th birthday…
…and here’s a short film about us filmed on location at the first ever festival we did!
