Here are some of our key artisan suppliers:
Since 1972, The Original Cake has been proudly baking traditional cakes in the heart of Lincolnshire. For over five decades, we have remained true to the values that have always guided us: quality ingredients, time-honoured recipes, and a genuine passion for great baking.
Wherever possible, we carefully source ingredients locally, supporting trusted suppliers and ensuring every cake is made with the finest produce available. Combining these quality ingredients with traditional baking methods passed down through generations, we create cakes that are full of flavour, character, and homemade goodness.
We are a dedicated team of skilled bakers who take great pride in our craft. From classic Victoria sponges and rich fruit cakes to hearty flapjacks and beloved family favourites, every bake is made with the same care and attention that has been at the heart of our bakery since the very beginning.
As a proud Lincolnshire business, we believe that good service should be as dependable as good baking. That is why we deliver our cakes locally using our own fleet of vans and experienced drivers. By keeping deliveries in our own hands, we can ensure that every order arrives fresh, carefully handled, and ready to be enjoyed.
At The Original Cake Café, tradition is more than our history—it is the foundation of everything we do. From our bakery to your table, we are committed to bringing you the quality, flavour, and craftsmanship that have defined our cakes for more than 50 years.
The Stokes family have been roasting coffee in Lincoln since 1902, so we’ve had a little time to get it right. Our current MD Nick Peel, fourth-generation Stokes, swapped a career in dance for the roastery.
We roast speciality coffee in Lincoln and supply to cafés, restaurants, and businesses across the UK, as well as serving it in our own cafés. Everything we do is built around consistency, quality and making coffee approachable.
We care about doing things responsibly. As a B Corp-certified business, we commit to high standards for people, planet, and the community.
This means we focus on sourcing coffee ethically, reducing waste wherever possible, repurposing and reusing in our cafés and supporting our local community. Just a few of our initiatives include our eco-friendly roaster designed to cut down on energy and reduce CO2 emissions, our reusable coffee bucket scheme for wholesale customers (saving thousands of single-use plastic bags), and Nick’s weekly Dance Fit class which raises money for our annual charity of the year.
Sustainability isn’t an afterthought — it’s part of everything we do, from roasting to serving.
A small business based in Lincoln. Founded by Francesca Gresswell when she was 21 and at university, right in the middle of the pandemic.
All their suppliers are British and they use recyclable packaging. The teas are made in Devon but the business operates from Lincoln and they work closely with other Lincolnshire Businesses.
Crowned best Iced Tea Brand 2026.
8 Sail Brewery is a local brewery, with community at the heart of everything they do. Located in the shadows of the unique eight-sailed windmill in the rural village of Heckington, near Sleaford, this small, independent brewery was established in 2010, when founder Tony Pygott saw the potential in the derelict site as a home for a micro-brewery. They have gone to great lengths to restore the mill building sympathetically and to furnish it in keeping with its heritage site location. From challenging beginnings, Tony’s vision has been rewarded with a multi-award-winning brewery and a thriving community hub.
Craft-brewed in the heart of Lincolnshire, their range of cask and bottle-conditioned ales includes all styles from dark milds, pale, hoppy ales and IPAs to porters, lagers and seasonal specials.
Alexander Thurlow is a small 3rd generation family business which was established in 1949 in London. Stephen Thurlow has reinvented Alexander Thurlow away from mass produced fashion jewellery into the beautiful world of hand finished flower jewellery. Alexander Thurlow is a brand which is inspired by nature and giving back to nature is important to them. They are constantly striving to lessen their carbon footprint and to be environmentally conscious at all times. This includes removing all plastic from their products and packaging, reducing their use of packaging, using recycled materials where possible and reviewing all aspects of the business to ensure they are as sustainable as possible.
Alexander Thurlow are proud members of Ecologi for over three years and have funded the planting of over 1000 trees so far.
The Artisan Honey Company is a small husband-and-wife bee farming enterprise based near Fulbeck in the heart of rural Lincolnshire. Simon and Caroline served a combined service of 60 years in the Royal Air Force before turning their passion for beekeeping into an award-winning business. Since its inception in 2011 the company has received many awards and accolades and is a previous winner of the BBC Good Food Bursary award to upcoming businesses. Members of the Bee Farmers Association, the company has won over 600 awards in honey shows for honey and related products.
They also provide educational activities for beekeepers and informative talks.
Their bees forage on wild and farm crops to produce some of the best honey in the East Midlands.
The Lincoln Distillery, established in 2017, is Lincoln’s first commercial distillery since 1863. Independent and family-owned, The Lincoln Distillery is made up of owner and distiller Matt, his wife Jen and her father John. Working together they have taken the business from its humble beginnings in Matt and Jen’s family kitchen to an established craft distillery.
They produce small batch spirits all finished by hand, ensuring each bottle is of the highest quality and taste. During the COVID-19 pandemic they switched gin production to producing hand sanitiser which they donated, free of charge, to the vulnerable and isolating, and to many front line services such as Lincolnshire Police Lincs Fire & Rescue Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance Lincolnshire Emergency Medical Response St Barnabas Hospice to name but a few.
The Lincolnshire Tea and Coffee Company
The Lincolnshire Tea and Coffee Company is proud to display the Rainforest Alliance green frog seal on its Lincolnshire Tea™ products. Lincolnshire Tea™ is blended from tea which is 100% from Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms.
The Rainforest Alliance Certified™ seal is awarded to farms that follow rigorous environmental and social standards. Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms are required to use methods that help protect the health of farm workers and ensure sustainable livelihoods while also protecting their land and the surrounding waterways. Through training and their certification programme, the Rainforest Alliance are promoting farming techniques designed to protect the land for future generations.
The Lincoln Tea and Coffee Company is an award-winning member of Select Lincolnshire, an organisation that celebrates Food and Drink businesses in Lincolnshire.
Pocklington’s was established in 1924 by Cyril Pocklington of Louth. Cyril’s grandson Christopher and his wife Tina now run the business. Best known for the famous Lincolnshire plumbread, they have won awards for product quality and customer as voted for by the “Tastes of Lincolnshire” judges. They have a modern bakery situated in the small village of Withern, where the family have lived since the mid 1800s and a small shop in Louth.
Pocklington’s maintain traditional baking methods and wherever possible use locally sourced ingredients, locally grown wheat for their flour and local eggs for their cakes. Milk comes from the local dairy. They cook all their own meat for pies, pasties and savouries – all sourced from the local butcher or direct from the abattoir.
Wisdom Art Prints are a family-run creative studio, offering a broad range of stylish art prints and greeting cards, designed and printed in Britain. They care about the environment, so prints are sustainably sourced and carbon-neutral, and the illustration process does not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) at any point, relying instead on authentic human creativity. Wisdom Art Prints have a carbon-neutral studio, where their art prints are planned, illustrated and printed, using a green energy tariff. Every watt of energy that goes into their art prints is 100% renewable. They endeavour to always get their paper from ethical sources, such as Forest Stewardship Council certified paper from responsible sources. Print orders are packaged without any plastics. Prints are fixed to cardboard backing boards using paper masking tape, and covered with tissue paper sheets.
