16/05/2023
We need your help!
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/london-reclaimed---youth-training-hub-opportunity
We are part of London Reclaimed, a youth employment charity working with 26-25 year olds helping them step up into employment. We do this by training, mentoring and crucially employing them either here at Lumberjack, or at our other charity owned enterprise Goldfinch Furniture.
On Easter Sunday a catastrophic fire ripped through the back unit of Goldfinch's workshop in Bermondsey, completely destroying that half of the unit. Fortunately the fire brigade extinguished the fire before it destroyed the front of the unit, where they make furniture.
After the shock subsided, and a whole lot of mess was cleared up, we were left with a question. “Could we take the plunge and turn the back unit into a youth training hub?” (which we'd previously been renting out successfully)...
We’ve dreamed about using the space for our parent charity (London Reclaimed) to expand its youth work for a long time, but up to now haven’t had the opportunity, finance or infrastructure to make it work. However, our project has grown and developed over the last couple of years and we would love to take this huge step.
Life handed us a lemon… could you help us make lemonade!?
We haven’t publicised it until now, as we firstly wanted to make sure the landlord, and insurers, were going to do the right thing, and secondly that had a clear vision for what we wanted to turn the space into.
This training hub will allow us to train more young people, both at Goldfinch Furniture, as well as creating a separate training space for our young people at Lumberjack Coffee.
Please check out, and donate towards our crowdfunder to read more and watch our 3 min video:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/london-reclaimed---youth-training-hub-opportunity
We'd love you to be part of this journey, if you feel you can contribute!
