Join us in celebrating our incredible volunteers that make Breadwinners possible and find out how you can get involved!
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Our Mentor Jessica recently put on a fantastic “Speak Up, Speak Out” session for our Market Stall Managers, teaching them how to improve their public speaking skills as well as their confidence. You can read all about this inspiring event from Jessica herself in our latest blog.
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This weekend, we took on the Hackney Moves Community 5K as a team of 16 current & former mentors, programme participants, staff, and supporters - one for the books!!
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On June 24th, we are tackling the Seven Sisters Trek!22km, 7 hills, 300 mts of altitude gain, in aprox. 6hrs, to support young refugees and show compassion! Join us for a fun day trip to the coast trekking the beautiful Seven Sisters cliffs and fundraising for Breadwinners so we can continue to put our compassion into practice!
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Recently, Caitlin Otway from the Camberwell Clarion, a local newspaper for SE5 in South East London, chatted with Mohammad, one of our Market Stall Managers. Mo has been managing our stall at Camberwell Green Market since joining our Breadwinners Programme in September and has been making a very positive impression with his beautiful smile in the local community ever since.
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In honour of today, Thevajan, our Market Stall Manager at Greenwich Peninsula Market, is celebrating his creative skills with us through his photography!
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Happy #WorldArtDay! In our latest blog post, we finally reveal who has been behind our beautiful illustrations featured across our platforms for the last two or three years! Watch our video to learn about Lydia’s motivations for wanting to create artwork for Breadwinners, as well as how she used art to bond with her mentee Adis in our latest Risers Programmes!
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In this blog post, our passionate Risers Graduate Abdoul shares with us “four reasons why you should have a mentor”. If you’ve ever wondered what impact our mentors have on our young people, here are four examples!
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Our wonderful mentor Blaise has just completed her mentoring journey with her mentee Surafiel after supporting him on his journey both on our Risers and Breadwinners Programmes since 2021. Read all about her mentoring experience!
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We recently attended the opening of the “We Are Here” exhibition, a collection of artwork and photography by the global refugee community curated by Anahita and the team at Community Arts Box in Brixton. Our London Risers Programme Manager Josie worked on a photography project with several of our young people - check it out!
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Last Sunday, we had the pleasure of participating, for the fourth year, in a friendly football competition at Eton College with 28 young people and volunteers from Breadwinners, GMAX Trackstars Athletics Academy, Hope for the Young, and Argentina FC London.
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Our experienced Sales Representative Abdullah recently paid a visit to Change Please Site Manager Selena Radia at their newest location, Good Company in Regent’s Place. Read up on Abdullah and Selena’s conversation about Breadwinners’ wholesale service!
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We have just released our 2022 Impact Report featuring our first ever Participatory Action Research led by our Risers Graduate Abdoul and we wanted to share what we learned so other charities can replicate our methodology. To do so, we summarised our approach in a 10-step video tutorial! Check it out!
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We sat down with Abdoul, the Research Lead of our 2022 Participatory Action Research, to hear about his experience leading this project for the first time at Breadwinners. He also shared tips and advice for fellow researchers who are looking to try out this methodology. Check it out!
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Our 2022 Impact Report is live! This year, we took our reporting to the next level by using a Participatory Action Research methodology conducted by 13 of our programme participants. We also wanted to share our learnings from this process to help other charities and social enterprises replicate our approach, so we filmed some exciting videos to accompany our report!
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The Pioneers Post had us over on their podcast “Fit for the Future,” co-hosted by Tim West and Eddie Finch, to discuss the importance of impact measurement for social enterprises and charities with our Managing Director Martin and our Business Development Trustee Harry. Grab a cup of tea and learn about our latest research at Breadwinners!
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In this blog article, our Managing Director Martin uses this opportunity to take a look back at the period from April 2021 to March 2022, giving you a quick update on our accounts but also looking ahead at the exciting year to come!
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Our Managing Director Martin recently reflected on how his experience with On Purpose before joining Breadwinners shaped his vision when designing our employability programmes using three key ingredients: work experience, training, and mentoring.
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Meet Abdulla, a graduate of our most recent Risers Programme which concluded in December. During his time with us, he volunteered at the Chelsea Partridges Market at Duke of York Square and fell in love with the Chelsea area. Get to know Abdulla in our new #meetouryoungpeople video series below!
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In November, we celebrated our one year anniversary in Brighton - already! So much has happened since our last update in May, so we thought it would be a good time to sit down with Antonia, our Brighton Operations Manager, and get a proper update on developments south of London.
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