We believe that good taste starts with good business.
Our delicious, premium tea products create training & employment opportunities for refugees within the hospitality sector to help them shape their own journeys.
EMPOWERING REFUGEES
We believe that everyone in the UK, regardless of whether they are refugees or economic migrants, should get the same chance as all citizens to have a decent quality of life and the opportunity to contribute to our society and its development.
In October 2015, our founder, Pranav Chopra, discovered the difficulties faced by refugees to find employment despite having experience and qualifications in their home countries. Determined to change this, Pranav set up a business to offer refugees work experience and the ability to gain a UK reference by selling freshly brewed Chai at local food markets in London.
Since then, Pranav’s model has grown to become NEMI Teas, an award-winning social enterprise tea company that provides training and employment to refugees to break into the UK hospitality sector whilst supplying teas to the world’s largest organisations.
OUR PARTNERS
In partnership with The Hotel School and Groundwork London, we have developed ‘Changing Journeys’, a 10 week hospitality training programme for refugees, at TRAMPOLINE Cafe, where they learn a variety of customer service skills, improve their English language, and in turn feel a greater sense of community and belonging in London.
TRAMPOLINE CAFE
In February 2022, Pranav opened TRAMPOLINE Cafe on Camden Passage in Angel, London. From the outset, it looks just like a regular cafe, but TRAMPOLINE is also a social enterprise business that is changing the lives of many.
The Cafe solely hires refugees based within the Greater London area, giving them the opportunity to integrate more easily into UK society. Additionally, TRAMPOLINE provides a space from which refugees on our hospitality training programme, in partnership with The Hotel School and Groundwork London, gain training to work within the hospitality sector.
At the Cafe we serve a range of hot and cold drinks, along with freshly made pastries - delivered daily by Seven Seeded Artisan Bakery. We are also proud to support small, independent suppliers who make a positive impact on the planet and its people, including Toast Ale, Karma Cola, Lemon-aid and Belu Water.
Following the completion of their training at TRAMPOLINE, we place refugees into full-time jobs through our employment partner, Thomas Franks, and support them during this transition.
OUR PEOPLE
The following case studies show just some of the amazing people who we have supported into full-time employment:
ASHKAN P.
Ashkan fled Iran in 2013 and came to London in search of a better life. Since completing our training programme, he has been employed at TRAMPOLINE - first as a Barista, and now as our Cafe Manager!
This film was made as part of a social enterprise case study on our work and is shared with the permission of Bayes University to tell Ashkan’s story.
YOGI S.
Yogi left behind his wife and daughter in Sri Lanka in 2009 to seek refuge in London. Upon being referred by The Hotel School, he worked at TRAMPOLINE in February 2022 and developed his passion for food and cooking.
He now works as a Professional Chef at the Park Plaza Hotel in Waterloo, and teaches Sri Lankan cooking at Migrateful!
Watch his journey here!
