WE ARE CHANGE PLEASE
Founded in 2015, Change Please is an award-winning social enterprise which aims to end homelessness through selling great tasting coffee.
We use 100% of our profits and donations to train people experiencing homelessness to become baristas, supporting them with everything they need to turn their lives around.
Our business model puts employment first - our goal is to empower people to get back into the working world. The trainees learn everything they need to find work in the hospitality industry - from roasting and latte art, through to customer service, time keeping and social skills.
At the end of their training, graduates are either employed at a Change Please coffee shop or introduced to a potential employer. We also support in other fields of interests - our programme restores self-esteem and confidence allowing trainees to pursue their previous professions or explore new ones.
"If we can just get a small proportion of coffee drinkers to simply change where they buy their coffee, we could really change the world.” Cemal Ezel, CEO and Founder of Change Please.
Thank you for your support!
Change Please Annual Report 2021-2022
We are thrilled to announce the release of our 2021-2022 impact report!!!
The report highlights some of the amazing work YOU have helped us achieve between 2021 and 2022.
The report including a time line of the Change Please journey, stories from our graduates, our mission, a break down of our barista training programme and our biggest achievements of the year.
8
NUMBER OF COUNTRIES
WE ARE NOW IN
100%
OF CHANGE PLEASE PROFITS
FIGHT HOMELESSNESS
0VER 85%
OF OUR TRAINEES HAVE SUCCESSFULLY
FOUND ONGOING EMPLOYMENT
500
TRAINEES WHO HAVE BECOME BARISTAS
THROUGH OUR TRAINING
1,000
TRAINEES TARGETED
FOR 2022 ALONE
5,000
NIGHTS OF ACCOMMODATION
PROVIDED BY US
£75,000
IN HOUSE SUPPORT FOR
PEOPLE BATTLING HOMELESSNESS
£2.5M+
GRANTS AND DONATIONS RAISED TO
HELP FIGHT HOMELESSNESS
WE ALSO WORK WITH GREAT CHARITIES & FOUNDATIONS TO COLLABORATIVELY FIGHT HOMELESSNESS
DELIVERING IMPACT
We work with people experiencing homelessness from different backgrounds.
Our training programmes last between 1 week and 6 months depending on how near to the jobs market a Trainee is.
While people are with us, we support with mental wellbeing, housing, therapy, additional training, employability, interview and presentation skills.
All of this is to ensure that people are ready to work and have the resources to maintain employment and tenancies, lifting themselves into better lives.
