Trust company supports café with a conscience

Friday 20 December 2019

A local trust company has committed to supporting a café that offers opportunities to islanders with disabilities over the next two years by funding a wage for one of its trainees.

Alex Picot Trust’s contribution will enable one individual to train across a number of areas of the operation both in Beresford Street Kitchen's St. Helier hub and potentially at its new La Hougue Bie site.

“We are firm believers in growing our own and have historically trained individuals from school through to senior roles through providing opportunities to train with us while gaining real hands-on work experience," Andrew Le Cheminant, Director of Alex Picot Trust, said. 

Pictured: Beresford Street Kitchen employees outside the town premises.

"A number of our team today, including me, joined Alex Picot Trust early in their careers and trained here. So, to us it made a lot of sense to lend our support to an initiative which offers fellow Islanders real employment progression opportunities.

“We are thrilled to partner with Beresford Street Kitchen to enable them to pay a trainee for two years as they embark upon a meaningful training programme within the hospitality, catering, retail and printing areas of this important social enterprise. We wish them well in their plans for 2020 and beyond.”

Georgina Dodd, Fundraising Manager for Beresford Street Kitchen, said the social entreprise was very grateful to the company for its support.

"We still have 45 people on our waiting list that we could not offer training and employment to without the support of the community and companies like Alex Picot Trust," she explained. "Thank you from all the crew at BSK!"

Pictured top - from left: Georgina Dodd, Alex Picot Trust Director Andrew Le Cheminant, three of the Beresford Street Kitchen crew, and Trust Directors Chris Cotillard and Derek Rhodes.