Our story
A simple question.
What if paying something forward locally were as easy as buying something for yourself?
The problem
People want to help.
But they often don't know:
- what is genuinely useful
- where their money goes
- whether someone actually benefits
- how to support local businesses at the same time
The idea
Generosity, meet hospitality.
FreeCoff is a simple infrastructure connecting generosity with real local hospitality. Real items, at real local venues, paid forward by real people — with the venue receiving the full advertised menu value.
Starting small
Begin in Glastonbury.
Learn from real venues and real communities. Improve the model before expanding.
Start local. Learn properly. Grow responsibly.
Bigger ambition
Everyday generosity.
Build technology that helps generosity become part of everyday community life — in towns, workplaces, campuses and events far beyond where we began.
Meet the Founder
Andrew Potter moved from London to Glastonbury in 2020, drawn by a town with an extraordinary sense of independence, creativity and community.
His path to FreeCoff has been an unconventional one. He studied environmental biology, worked professionally in music and sound engineering, and later became an entrepreneur, including founding a business focused on ethical AI and medical education.
Living in Glastonbury, Andrew saw a community with an unusual mix of independent businesses, alternative-living communities, long-standing residents and people who instinctively look out for one another.
But there was an opportunity to make that generosity easier to act on.
FreeCoff began in 2026 with one simple idea: what if someone could buy something real at a local venue for another person they may never meet?
From that idea grew a wider ambition — to create technology that helps generosity become a normal part of everyday community life, while supporting the independent venues that help hold communities together.
“I wanted to build something that made generosity feel normal — not charitable, not awkward, just part of everyday community life.”
FreeCoff is being built as a purpose-led social enterprise, with the intention that its community mission remains central as it grows.
You don't need to know someone to do something kind for them.