Kimel Café is a little bit different!

Kimel café was set up with the aim to provide supported employment for the neurodivergent community, and to provide a stepping stone training experience, to give younger people an opportunity to transition into mainstream employment.

Here are the objectives of Kimel Café:

To work in conjunction with the Kimel Foundation Personal development and employability team and to find awesome staff to come and work at the café.

To develop a café to provide supported skills training for the neurodivergent community.

Our ‘Pay it Forward’ programme will help local charities in their quest to alleviate food poverty in Wokingham.

To provide tailored and appropriate stepping stone training for our young neurodivergent team members.

Pay our team members a proper salary.

To identify potential employers. Advocate the skills of our young people and provide transitional support to employment.

To engage people in fundraising activities to support the financial requirements of the Kimel Café project.

To empower our young people to help themselves and to raise awareness of the challenges they face.

Oh – and serve GREAT coffee.