Social enterprise calls for customer support

Social enterprise calls for customer support

Beresford Street Kitchen, which employs and trains Islanders with special needs and autism, said it had seen a ‘drastic’ drop in café income over the past week and the cancellation of all corporate orders and event catering for at least the next six weeks.

Such a sudden, unprecedented loss of trade had left the charity in what it described as a ‘perilous position’.

As a result, it has come up with four suggestions for how people can help to support the organisaion:

  • Order home deliveries of home-cooked meals (£5 for mains, £2 for cake and £3 for soup, with a £20 minimum order) by emailing orders@aspirejersey.je, or calling 509644.
  • Put in an order with its printing workshop (which prints T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and more) by emailing printing@aspirejersey.je.
  • Buy vouchers for yourself or others, which can be used at any time in the future at Beresford Street Kitchen, Beresford Street Print Works, La Hougue Bie Tea Rooms or for in-house or outside events catering.
  • Make a donation online at beresfordstreetkitchen.je, or by posting in the secure post box by the side door of the café, or by post to Beresford Street Kitchen, 17 Beresford Street, St Helier, JE2 4WN.

In a statement, the charity said: ‘Keeping our crew, customers, volunteers and staff safe and well is the most important thing. Over the past two-and-a-half years we have come to know many of you by name, by face, by coffee order and you are as much a part of Beresford Street Kitchen as are the crew. We are immensely grateful for your constant custom, support and goodwill. We will miss you all! Thank you again for your support and we hope to see you back with us when we reopen.’

A ‘pay-it-forward’ scheme is also in place and Standard Bank has asked the charity to deliver 200 meals to vulnerable Islanders, with the finance firm picking up the tab. BSK is now working with the government and other local charities to decide where those meals are most needed.

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