The cafe at Roehampton University has won a national organic award.

Your Local Guardian:

The Hive Cafe has been announced as a winner of a national 2014 Soil Association Organic Award after a month-long public vote.

The accolade comes less than six months after the café launched. It is run by Roehampton Students’ Union’s Growhampton team and is open to the public as well as students and staff.

Siobhan Kelly, president of Roehampton Students’ Union, said: “Our Growhampton team has done brilliantly to literally build The Hive from unwanted shipping containers, set it up as a social enterprise and establish a regular customer base so quickly.

"We’re so grateful to everyone who voted for us, especially people in Roehampton who have come on to campus and seen the good work we’re doing.”