Inspire Café & Youth Project
The Inspire Café and Young People’s Project will act as a ‘gateway’ to the Inspire Centre with three three main functions:
- To serve inexpensive, good quality and healthy food and drink to local residents, centre users and passers by in a community café atmosphere that promotes interaction and mutual support.
- To operate as a social enterprise, focused on healthy, local food, with wider revenue streams coming from grocery retailing, outside catering services, catering facilities hire and a local veggie box scheme.
- To provide a range of activities and services for young people, particularly those with mental health problems, including volunteering opportunities and pathways into work and enterprise.
The café will have the following features:
- A compact and busy café seating space, with capacity for up to 60 seating spaces.
- An internet access area intended as a community resource, for younger people and the general public.
- A retail/deli counter selling healthy groceries and snacks including local produced fruit and vegetables.
- A front covered patio for sitting out on the street during warmer months.
Manchester Metropolitan University students have recently been involved in a project to develop inspiring interior designs for the café – to find out more click here.
The café will be run by the local Young Adults Support Project (YASP) under the auspices of HARP – a city-wide social enterprise working with people with mental health problems.
Inspiration Space
Inspiration Incubation & Training
Inspire Café & Youth Project
ALLFM @ Inspire
Inspire Church
Inspire Forum
Living @ Inspire
To find out more about our partners please click here.
