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Fifteen is a restaurant that trains young unemployed people to work in the hospitality industry by turning round the lives of youngsters with few career prospects that are not in education, training or employment. Each year Fifteen recruits 18 people and teaches them to become professional chefs.
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Situation
Fifteen offers a college qualification and on-the-job learning to young people who are in need of a break in life. As an internationally renowned project, Fifteen aims to ‘reengage the disengaged’ by giving unemployed people a new career opportunity; the majority of the recruits have faced challenging obstacles and are in need of a fresh start. They’re integrated into a professional operation and work alongside a team of 25 professional chefs and a dedicated team of five programme supporters.
Solution
Fifteen offers something very special: a trade which Jamie has made cool, a new sense of purpose and positive social networks. Today, in Britain, there are 874,000 young people not in education, training or employment; Fifteen offers a chance for young people to believe in themselves. Although our intake tailored to 18 people per year, we also operate an outreach programme that works with an average of 3,500 people annually.