Progreso, Earlham Street, London

Set up by Oxfam, Progreso is the UK’s first high street chain of Fairtrade coffee bars created to benefit coffee growers.

Farmers in Ethiopia, Honduras and Indonesia will have the chance to trade their way out of poverty with Progreso serving their premium Fairtrade organic coffee to consumers in the heart of the capital.

High quality Fairtrade coffee is served in the Thomas Neal Centre, Earlham Street (right) and on Portobello Road.

Online at Progreso, Earlham Street, London.

All Progreso coffees are certified Fairtrade and organic. Foremost, Progreso serves fantastic speciality coffee in an honest and soulful environment. Organic teas and Fairtrade fruit smoothies are available as well as pastries, sandwiches, soup, cold drinks, Fairtrade chocolate and yogurt with Fairtrade honey - and our t-shirts!

Picking coffee cherries for the La Central Co-operative, Honduras, one of Progeso's founder members. Photo: Annie Bungeroth/Oxfam

The Progreso concept originated from talks between Oxfam and La Central from Honduras, one of the co-operatives that own shares in Progreso.

25% of the shares in progreso are allocated for the co-ops who grow the coffee, a further 25% isheld in a trust (called the Progreso Producer's Trust) which invests in development projects in coffee growing communities around the world. Oxfam owns the remaining 50 per cent.