What is your morning coffee could change lives?
A new ground breaking scheme is soon to be launched in Manchester which will empower homeless people with the skills, equipment and speciality beans they need to become fully-fledged baristas.
Change please, supported by the Big Issue, is the brainchild of Cemal Ezel, co-founder of the Old Spike Roastery, a café and coffee roastery run as a social enterprise in Peckham Rye, south London.
The scheme has already launched in the capital city with its coffee selling for £2.50 a cup with all the profits going back into the programme to buy more vans and train the next wave of baristas.
Every barista who enters the programme is provided with housing, training, and support throughout the course and will be paid the living wage.
