Anam Coffee

13/08/2026

Thanks for everything Holly & Jon
Now it’s your time to focus on your precious family and yourselves. Be very proud of everything you achieved in Holly's Cafe. We were so proud to be a part of your story.

After much thought, and with incredibly heavy hearts, we’ve made the difficult decision to close the doors of Holly’s Café.

Our final day of trading will be Sunday, 13th September.

When we opened on 5th March 2021, in the middle of COVID-19 restrictions, we could never have imagined the journey ahead. What started as a dream became so much more than a coffee shop. Holly’s Café became a place for conversations, celebrations, friendships, laughter, comfort, and community. It became a special part of our lives, and we hope it became part of yours too.

This has been one of the hardest decisions we’ve ever had to make. We’re ready for a new chapter as we step away from hospitality to focus on our family and the future. While it’s incredibly difficult to say goodbye, we know it’s the right decision for our family.

To our incredible staff – thank you. Your hard work, loyalty, kindness, and dedication meant everything to us. You helped make Holly’s Café the warm and welcoming place it became.

To our families, loved ones, neighbours, and fellow local businesses – thank you for your endless support, encouragement, and friendship throughout this journey.

And to every customer who walked through our doors, whether once or every day – thank you. Thank you for choosing us, celebrating life’s moments with us, making us part of your routines, and supporting a small independent business. You gave Holly’s Café its heart, and we’ll treasure those memories forever.

We’re incredibly proud of everything Holly’s Café has been over the past five and a half years, and we’ll always be grateful for the memories, friendships, and support we’ve received along the way.

We’d love to see as many of you as possible before we close, so please call in for one last coffee, one last chat, and one last goodbye.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for everything.

With love,

Holly & Jon ❤️

15/05/2026

Today I visited a few Agri Evolve farms, where we got to see their shade tree initiatives. Agri Evolve cultivates over 130,000 native tree seedlings in their nurseries each year, providing them to farmers to create healthier growing conditions for coffee plants while also helping combat deforestation.

To support the long-term sustainability of coffee farming, Agri Evolve also provides SL14 and SL28 coffee seedlings to farmers, encouraging the replacement of older, lower-yielding trees with more productive and disease-resistant varieties, by building communal coffee nurseries.

One of the highlights was getting to meet a women’s cooperative as they collect their shade trees from the nursery. The women were beautifully dressed, and the energy was one of excitement and gratitude. They welcomed us with local song and dance to thank us for coming and buying their coffee. I had a serious lump in my throat the whole time, witnessing first hand how lives are being transformed with proper leadership and initiative.

It was the highlight of my time in Uganda 🇺🇬 and an event I will never forget. I have fallen deeply in love with this remote Mountain community, with their coffee, and with their hospitality and spirit. Against all the odds they are determined to move forward. To make lives better for their children and their community. Collectively. There is so so much we could learn from them.

I will have coffee for sale from Uganda 🇺🇬 and the communities in the Rwenzori mountains from September. It’s one I am super proud to feature.

14/05/2026

Origin Trip Day 3 - travels to Uganda 🇺🇬 We climbed the Rwenzori Mountains 🏔️ today, up to a peak of between 1900 and 2000masl. Somewhere between losing my breath for the fifth time and staring at endless rows of coffee trees hanging onto the mountainside, something inside me shifted.

I kept thinking about how I was struggling to climb a mountain, while little children passed me carrying their siblings on their backs, huge scarves full of things balanced with a strength that felt almost unreal. Everything is carried up and down the mountain. Water, supplies, firewood, building materials. It humbled me in ways I can’t explain. The way they giggled at my out-of-breath and sweaty face made me feel happy though, catch my breath and carry on.

And then there was Collins, our guide, who turned every step into a lesson. Soil, coffee, survival, resilience, the quiet determination of farmers trying to build better futures for themselves and their communities from steep land and unpredictable weather. I learned more in those hours than I ever expected to.

At the top, the rain found us before we could make our way back down. We hid in a tiny hen house with fried bread and juice, surrounded by laughing children and the sound of rain hitting the roof while the Rwenzoris disappeared into the mist.
The mountains taught me that beauty and hardship can exist in the exact same place.
And somehow, that makes the beauty even greater. And people from Rwenzoris are resilient, welcoming, beautiful inside and out despite their daily struggles.

13/05/2026

Uganda 🇺🇬 origin trip - Day 2 (Part one) Here is some context about Uganda to give you some context. Uganda 🇺🇬 is located on the equator, in East Africa with a growing population that of 50 million, and one of the poorest countries in the world. 50% of its young population are under the age 14. Statisticians have calculated the living wage for an Ugandan household to be approx 3.3m schillings for families to afford healthcare, school fees and daily food provisions. Unfortunately less the 3% actually achieve this. The scale of need is overwhelming as the economy fails to keep up with the growing population. Museveni, the current head of State has been in power since 1986 🫣 It is against this backdrop, that Agri Evolve operate. Opened in 2015, they are essentially a family business with a full time team of 140, and the largest employer in the Rwenzori Mountains. They are one of the only B Corp certified businesses in Uganda working directly with more then 20,000 farming families improving income and raising the quality of life for remote mountain communities. The average size of a coffee farm here is between 1-2 acres.

12/05/2026

Origin trip Day 1 - travels to Uganda 🇺🇬.

Arrived early morning after travelling for 24hrs to what feels like another world 🌍 The air is heavy, the light is golden grey, like morning and evening exist at the same time. Fruit 🍈 that actually tastes like something - intense, real, delicious and overwhelming. And apparently…24 types of banana exist. 24 🤷‍♂️! I didn’t even know that was a thing. It makes you realise how small your version of “normal” really is.

Almost hurts to see the reality of life here. Women carry heavy loads, kids who should be in school selling fruit at the side of the road, whilst others carry their younger sibling on their back, playing outside in the dust. No mobile screens, no distractions. Life for them happens exclusively outside.

Uganda 🇺🇬 feels unlike anything I’ve known before. Raw, layered, hard and beautiful at the same time. It’s a lot to take in - the contrasts, the energy, the unfamiliarity of it all. But maybe that’s the point. To feel it fully, even when it’s overwhelming.

27/04/2026