CYP Now - Running community cafés helps jobless young people acquire crucial work skills

Young people out of work or education receive training to set up and run their own community café and to use it as a springboard into paid employment.

Provider UK Youth and Starbucks

Name Youth Action programme

Young people struggling to get a foot on the job ladder are gaining valuable work experience by running their own community cafés as part of a youth-led employment support programme.

Youth Action has been set up by UK Youth, in partnership with coffee retailer Starbucks, to help some of the 800,000 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK who are not in education, employment or training. Of these, it is reported that 42 per cent are actively looking and available for work, suggesting some need more support and encouragement to develop their work-readiness.

Delivered across the North East of England, Bristol and Scotland through UK Youth members, Youth Action targets disadvantaged young people living in deprived areas. It gives them the chance to learn life skills through employability training, which is delivered using the UK Youth employability toolkit.

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