Transparency Report 2024: A Future with Friends

Skylark started with a simple mission: To see how much good it’s possible for a coffee roaster to bring about. We love publishing this report every year and sharing in this journey with all of you; particularly with all the coffee friends who've collaborated to make Skylark a sustainable reality.

Every year we learn a lot, we grow a lot, and we give a lot. Here we are, already a good way into 2025 (a year where we’re doubling in size again), and we’re just now getting round to publishing our 2024 reporting. We gave the writing as long as it took because we think it’s absolutely critical to take the time and do it well; to tell you the good and the bad from the year that was.

As far as we know, we’re still the only non-profit, completely transparent, specialty coffee roaster in the world. What does this mean in practice? We operate like any other coffee roastery, buying and roasting the best coffee we can find and selling it to cafes and consumers. Unlike others, however, we give away all the profits at the end of the year. We're a registered non-profit organisation ... not a B Corp, not a social enterprise, not a CIC.  

We're also completely open source with our business model. We think skepticism about ethical claims is warranted. Instead of asking you to trust us, here are our numbers and inner workings for your scrutiny and feedback: 2024 Annual Transparency Report

We’d love for you to read this report and let us know what you think!