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In 2018 both myself and sister in law had a great idea to start a restaurant that would work to help young people in our local community stay out of trouble by offering work opportunity, support and advice.
We started as a pop up restaurant in May 2018 and we ran a total of 5 day pop ups and 3 takeaway evenings from a local church community centre and we have been quite successful even though we are still quite small, we made roughly £4500 across those events and have a small social media following and are now becoming quite popular within our community.
Although on the surface our aim is to serve great quality food, the underlying vision is to help young people within our communities get into the world of employment where they would not necessarily have been able to before due to multiple reasons. We work with young adults who may be involved in knife crime, drugs, have a lack of education, cannot work full time due to childcare costs etc to get them in a position where they can apply for careers and jobs. We want to be a professional positive reference for them, provide work experience, offer employment advice and support (e.g. formal training, cv support, interview support etc). So therefore the money that we raise will be reinvested to make that happen. We currently have around 6 young people volunteering for us and we have successfully helped one young lad get his first real job at the age of 19 in a sports shop.
Eventually we would like to offer training to young people in Chef'ing, Front of House, Bar work, accounting, management etc.
We used our own funds to fund this project and rent the space that we use as a limited company. Both myself and sister in law work full time and used our own money to initially fund the project and we have now practically broken even. Unfortunately for us, the premises we currently use are being a little funny with us as they see us as using their premises to make money even though the money raised is being reinvested in these young people.
As highlighted above we are currently a Limited company but after a brief conversation with a friend she recommended we could qualify to become charity based. In all honesty I would love to quit my job and do this full time but then the question of funding comes into play. As we are currently running as a pop up restaurant once a month we would need a permanent premises to run as a restaurant daily instead of once a month.
Question 1) Does any know of any funding options out there that offer enough money to leasing a premises for this type of business? And also, how soon after registering a charity can you apply for funding? (We cant fund it too much longer out of our own wages)
Question 2) Can anyone offer any advice on the type of charity we would need to register in order to pay myself a salary? (I know this is not the point of a charity but I have a family of 3 to support while doing this).
Question 3) Can anyone point us in the direction of any companies that offer advice and help on how to set up a charity step by step?
(I could talk you to death on a ltd company, but the information on starting a charity on the .gov site fries my brain) All help appreciated.
We started as a pop up restaurant in May 2018 and we ran a total of 5 day pop ups and 3 takeaway evenings from a local church community centre and we have been quite successful even though we are still quite small, we made roughly £4500 across those events and have a small social media following and are now becoming quite popular within our community.
Although on the surface our aim is to serve great quality food, the underlying vision is to help young people within our communities get into the world of employment where they would not necessarily have been able to before due to multiple reasons. We work with young adults who may be involved in knife crime, drugs, have a lack of education, cannot work full time due to childcare costs etc to get them in a position where they can apply for careers and jobs. We want to be a professional positive reference for them, provide work experience, offer employment advice and support (e.g. formal training, cv support, interview support etc). So therefore the money that we raise will be reinvested to make that happen. We currently have around 6 young people volunteering for us and we have successfully helped one young lad get his first real job at the age of 19 in a sports shop.
Eventually we would like to offer training to young people in Chef'ing, Front of House, Bar work, accounting, management etc.
We used our own funds to fund this project and rent the space that we use as a limited company. Both myself and sister in law work full time and used our own money to initially fund the project and we have now practically broken even. Unfortunately for us, the premises we currently use are being a little funny with us as they see us as using their premises to make money even though the money raised is being reinvested in these young people.
As highlighted above we are currently a Limited company but after a brief conversation with a friend she recommended we could qualify to become charity based. In all honesty I would love to quit my job and do this full time but then the question of funding comes into play. As we are currently running as a pop up restaurant once a month we would need a permanent premises to run as a restaurant daily instead of once a month.
Question 1) Does any know of any funding options out there that offer enough money to leasing a premises for this type of business? And also, how soon after registering a charity can you apply for funding? (We cant fund it too much longer out of our own wages)
Question 2) Can anyone offer any advice on the type of charity we would need to register in order to pay myself a salary? (I know this is not the point of a charity but I have a family of 3 to support while doing this).
Question 3) Can anyone point us in the direction of any companies that offer advice and help on how to set up a charity step by step?
(I could talk you to death on a ltd company, but the information on starting a charity on the .gov site fries my brain) All help appreciated.
