Project: Patchwork People
Purpose: To tackle youth unemployment by giving young people work experience and training
Funding: The shop has two full-time staff and costs about £70,000 to £80,000 a year to run. It generates about £90,000 income a year from placements alone
Background: When former head teacher and assistant director of children's services Gill Walker was made redundant, she decided to set up a social enterprise. The idea was to set up a profitable high street shop selling fashion and accessories that would give young people genuine experience of running a business and working with customers, something she felt vocational training often lacked. "I was concerned that young people were going into training centres to learn about customer service and enterprise but there wasn't a customer in sight," she says.
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