Managing Director, Paul Meikle-Janney, started Coffee Community in 1999, after years working in the catering industry and lecturing at Huddersfield University. 

He has been involved in writing both the City & Guilds Barista Qualification and the SCAE Qualification.

He was awarded a “Hotel & Caterer Acorn Award” for his expertise in catering back in 1998, and since then has focused on the coffee industry. He has been heavily involved in the UK and World Barista Championship, was part of the UK barista team that won the SCAE World Team Challenge Cup in 2006, and is currently Director of the World Coffee in Good Spirits Competition.

Coffee Community coordinate a team of barista trainers around the country that represent a “who’s who” of coffee expertise, with many awards between them.