Empowerment People, The Active Communities Fund Project (360G-macc:ACF-3)

To recruit, train and assign 30 volunteers over the next 12 months in the community café project at the LGBT Centre. Many of the volunteers that TEP has previously supported have been able to access new skills, qualifications, work experience and peer support through their involvement in a community café and the project seeks to extend this further to help to remove peoples, and especially LGBT peoples access to training, education and employment. For some LGBT people the workplace can be a toxic environment where fear of LGBTphobia is common. This project will develop people’s self-esteem and confidence, helping them to understand their rights and how they can use workplace policies to protect them. Volunteers will receive training and be taken through food hygiene qualifications and be assigned to the community cafe where they will gain work experience in buying and supply, food preparation, customer service and accounting.