HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED OF OPENING YOUR OWN CAFE? HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HELP US TO DO JUST THAT.
Fremantle is famous for, is literally dripping in, coffee. It’s what we love about Freo. Yet, what it lacks is a café focused on social impact.
Help us open the HUMBLE PANTRY, Freo's first social enterprise cafe, employing people with disability.
Hi, my name is David Doyle, I'm the Executive Director of DADAA.
OUR VISION is a welcoming, social enterprise café with great coffee and delicious food in the heart of Freo that also provides training and job opportunities for people with disability. A place where people want to come simply for the wonderful experience.
If you have ever dreamed of owning your own café, this is your way of starting one, with a small 'investment' and without the risk of losing your shirt!
Or, if you just love a good coffee, good food and would like to 'start some good' for people with disability...
… then join our Humble coffee club by making a contribution now towards our stretch goal of $55,000.
We were over the moon when last week we reached our first goal of $30,000 with the help of over 100 donors. Your support is still very much needed to help us achieve our stretch goal of $55,000. These extra funds will help to create an artisanal bakery within the cafe kitchen which will not only produce delicious breads, cakes and (Humble) pies, but will also provide more opportunities for skills development, training and job opportunities for people with disabilities.
You can make your pledge by simply clicking one of the options in the right and know that you are changing lives by providing training and jobs for those who most need it. With the end of the financial year only weeks away and DADAA offering tax deductibility, NOW IS A GREAT TIME TO GIVE!
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
One in five people in Australia live with a disability. Equal Opportunity Commissioner, Yvonne Henderson, spoke about the lack of employment for the disabled as “disgraceful” and a blight on the State. In 2012, the Australian Human Rights Commission published a labour force participation rate of 52% for people with disability compared with 82% for people without disability. This figure has changed very little over the past 20 years. By supporting this campaign, you can help do something tangible, right now, to address this imbalance and help transition people with disabilities into work.
HOW DO WE PLAN TO DO IT?
- by raising $30,000 to fit out a café in one of Fremantle's most beautiful heritage buildings
- by pursuing a sustainable financial model that is not reliant on government funding in order to meet our goal of providing employment for people with disability.
- by starting slowly - Humble beginnings - and enabling the Fremantle community to discover the café for themselves and, based on its performance and good reputation, build up a regular clientele
- by re-investing proceeds into the provision of training and employment opportunities as well as cooking classes for people with and without disabilities.
THE NAME
Our new social venture will be known as the HUMBLE PANTRY FREMANTLE, named after George Humble, the respected first headmaster of the Fremantle Boys’ School, the site of our community café.
Mr George Humble
THE LOCATION
We already have the space. It is within the bustling community hub of the new DADAA headquarters in the splendidly refurbished old Boys School in Adelaide Street Fremantle (the former FTI headquarters, next to Clancy’s Fish Pub) - in the up and coming trendy East End of Fremantle.
At the heart of this landmark location sits a 1901 kitchen.
It is this old kitchen that we are planning – with your help – to transform into a warm and welcoming café hub serving Freo’s most delicious breakfasts, lunches, coffee and pastry.
THE CUSTOMERS
Each week 700 people access the site, like the many people taking part in DADAA’s arts and health programs, local arts workers, support workers. Then there are the hundreds of adult students, parents, carers and grandparents of the children participating in the PianoEasy music development program and CircusWA. Not to mention the staff and visitors of the Fremantle Foundation and Arts Access Australia. In short, the cafe has a ready-made clientele, just from the people currently using the building. And, of course we want the entire community to discover the HUMBLE PANTRY, especially the many new residents of the up-and-coming East End.
THE SUPPORTERS
We are delighted to have a founding donor in Brayco Stainless Steel Australia who have generously provided $15,000 in-kind with benches, sinks and shelves for the café kitchen.
Harry Bray from Bracyo
Hi, my name is Harry Bray. We at Brayco are delighted to support the HUMBLE PANTRY FREMANTLE. It is a great project that will provide meaningful employment to many and joy to more. Now, we need YOUR help to raise $30,000 for the remainder of the works to get the HUMBLE PANTRY to the stage where it can open its doors. Please join us and contribute whatever you can afford to this amazing project.
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?
By selecting one of the pledge options on the right-hand side of this page, you can make a contribution, a social investment to help create this community café with a mission. A place to eat, enjoy coffee, take time out, meet, greet and come together around the unique community that is the Old Fremantle Boys School.
This can be a straight forward pledge for cash donation towards the project or select from the rewards a specific item that you would like to 'buy' for the cafe.
Working together with YOU and our café partners, Clare and Kieran Cranny, along with all our Boys School co-tenants and the community who use the building, our plan is to develop the HUMBLE PANTRY as the central coffee meeting point for all in Freo's East End and the wider community.
Your gift counts, no matter how large or small.
HOW WILL THE HUMBLE PANTRY HAVE A SOCIAL IMPACT?
With disability empowerment at DADAA’s core, we plan for the HUMBLE PANTRY to become Freo’s first truly inclusive café, where baristas, foodies, bakers and people with a disability come together to feed our community, learn to cook and celebrate daily what a truly inclusive community means.
Café operators, Clare and Kieran, are a formidable mother and son team with food in their genes. They will commit to training and providing employment opportunities to up to 5 people with disabilities each year. Clare’s sister, Jane is an artist with disability, which is how Clare became involved with DADAA.
Jane Ryan
“Jane has blossomed. We have seen a transformation in her - she is now a confident and prolific artist.” says Clare.
A professional caterer and passionate foodie, Clare will also provide regular cooking classes in the café kitchen for people with disability and for the wider community.
The social purpose of the café is what particularly interests Kieran. A former lawyer who gave up the trappings of St George’s Terrace for a more rewarding life in the not-for-profit sector, Kieran Cranny is in charge of the business-end of the café operations and is keen to make the HUMBLE PANTRY a thriving success, especially through its provision of training and job opportunities.
Clare and Kieran Cranny
WHO ARE DADAA?
DADAA is a not-for-profit community arts and cultural development organisation. We focus on creating positive social change and opportunities for people with a disability or a mental illness. Based in Fremantle, DADAA offers targeted arts and cultural programs that include a broad range of traditional and new media projects in almost 50 West Australian communities. DADAA is a registered charity and therefore all donations to the campaign are tax-deductible.
OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP
Kenny Pannell from AWB
If you are an experienced tradie and can offer plumbing, electrical or
tiling services at no cost, we'd love to hear from you on [email protected]. You will be acknowledged for your in-kind contribution on the donor wall in the HUMBLE PANTRY as a major supporter and (depending on contribution) your business
logo will be featured on all the printed material for the café.
THE CHALLENGE
$55,000 is a big goal. We have an intense program of promotions planned to help get the word out about our campaign, but really, it is only going to happen if you help us get there and you are willing to spread the word to your friends, NOW!
HOW DO WE LOVE YOU?
All donors, large and small, will (if desired) see their name acknowledged on the giving wall of the café, created by DADAA artists. You will also be our guest of honour at a special opening celebration in the café in the week prior to the formal opening. You will be thanked as our heroes and meet the community of people with whom YOU have helped make this great concept a reality, the true founders of the HUMBLE PANTRY FREMANTLE.
A range of other rewards from T-shirts to printed aprons to stunning original art prints are also available depending on your contribution.
Thank you!
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