About Us

Vegan cheese.co is run by partners in love, life & work, Rachel & Martin.

Rachel she/her

Rachel went vegetarian at an early age and spent twenty years vegetarian before going vegan in 2015. From volunteering for Animal Aid and fundraising for Animal Free UK, promoting a better world for animals and more people seeing how how veganism is all about compassion is important for Rachel.

Martin he/him

Martin started his vegan journey giving up eating fish many years ago seeing the effects of overfishing. Initially looking at catching fish himself before the realisation of sentience and destruction not only fishing but animal agriculture was doing continued into him being vegetarian in 2013 and then vegan in 2015.

VeganCheese.Co

Going vegan together in 2015 was the best decision we ever made. Being both cheese lovers, we started creating our own vegan cheese database (OK we are nerds!) to learn about and find the vegan cheese available to try, only really believing there were a few options to choose from.

However we soon realised there is actually an incredible world of plant based cheese making, from chease to cheeze, from using cashews, to coconut, oat to even carrots. In 2019 we turned our vegan cheese database into a website to share the amazing vegan cheese available as many cheese makers and companies were going unnoticed. The number of cheeses and the fantastic response from the general public across the website enabled us to start The Vegan Cheese Awards.

Since then the website has grown and there are over a 1500 vegan cheeses from around the world on the website. We have also learnt a lot about vegan cheese over the last 6 years and we are still learning and discovering and our platform helps give vegan cheese community a voice.

If you're curious about veganism and not vegan yet but the only thing stopping you in cheese, have a mooch around our website and you'll soon find one you love. If your a vegan cheese maker, get in touch to add your cheese on the website. If there is anything you'd like to see more of in terms of vegan cheese let us know. We are all for sharing the vegan love!