Braw Tea Social Enterprise Cafe

Braw Tea is a social enterprise. Our purpose is to help support women from all walks of life through training, live experience of working in a cafe, friendship and confidence building.

About

Meet some of the wonderful
women who run the cafe

Interested in volunteering?

We provide on-the-job training and personal development for women who have additional challenges in their lives. They can put the skills and confidence gained to use as a stepping stone to further education or paid employment.

Volunteer

Our food is professional standard using the best quality ingredients; made from scratch making best use of seasonal and local suppliers and priced fairly. It's not fancy food, it's homely and made with care.

Local suppliers

Our coffee comes from Modern Standard in Fife who source it directly from producers, paying a fair price.

Family-run business, The Cheesery, based in Dundee and Broughty Ferry, supplies our cheese.

The award-winning bakery Wildhearth in Comrie provides our sourdough bread.

Our suppliers are the best quality Scottish producers rather than big corporate brands.

No waste

We have also joined Too Good To Go to make sure we don't waste any food at the end of our service by selling the left over fresh food at a fraction of the cost.

Sustainability

We try our best to do what's right whether it's with our suppliers, packaging or food recycling. Everything is recycled. Any unsold food is given to our volunteers, or is recycled.

With thanks to our collaborators

Braw Tea wouldn’t exist without the tremendous support of our community- from corporate partners, philanthropic Trusts, community groups and individuals. A massive thank you! The people and partners listed here have donated professional expertise, time and hard-earned cash. Our suppliers are local wherever possible, and our women volunteers are just the best!

PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT

About Planning, Broughty Ferry
Broughty Ferry Men's Shed
Diane Selbie, Artist

Good Call, Dundee
Henderson Loggie CA, Dundee

Get involved

Drop us a line if you would like to work with us in some way: as a supporter, a referral partner for women volunteers or to volunteer yourself.

Contact

FUNDING SUPPORT

Andi and Sheila Lothian Charitable Trust
CJ Lang and Son Ltd
Dundee Rotary Club
Dundee Partnership Community Regeneration
Firstport
The Hammerman Incorporation of Dundee
Joe Nisbet and his Triathlon GoFundMe
Loadsaweemin Singing
The Lord Provost's Fund
The Mathew Trust

McLaughlin & Harvey Ltd
NHS Tayside Charitable Foundation
The Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee
The Northwood Charitable Trust
The Rank Foundation
Robertson Construction Tayside
Scotmid Co-op
Sustran’s Artroots Fund
WM Sword Charitable Trust

PARTNERS

Dundee and Angus College
Scottish Refugee Council
Robertson Construction
Dundee International Women's Centre
The Bella Centre

Dundee City Council Employability Team
Project Scotland
Enable
Developing the Young Workforce
The Interconnected Coach

SUPPLIERS

Modern Standard Coffee
Wild Hearth Bakery
Goodfellow and Steven

The Cheesery Broughty Ferry
FareShare

OUR AMAZING VOLUNTEERS

Elizabeth
Saphia
Aileen
Katherine
Joyce
Becca
Anne
Anna
Julie

Kayla
Olha
Eve
Piumi
Ritu
Nazzah
Nadeesha
Kendall
Laiba

Dominika
Irene
Tracy
Helen
Stacy
Shimi
Olya
Melody
Pas

Zara
Sara
Francesca
Irene
Lucia
Sharon
Charmaine

Without our volunteers we could not function! They are an amazing bunch of bakers, soup makers, front of house servers, coffee makers and lovely women.

OUR PROFESSIONAL STAFF

Chefs

Debbie
Eileen
Julia (mat leave)

Assistant Chefs

Teresa
Anna

Modern Apprentice Baker

Katherine

Front of House

Isabella

Alishba
Kayla
Kendall

Barista

Sian
Anna

Events, Community and Volunteer Engagement

Iona

Director

Jackie

OUR ADVISORY BOARD

Lorna Edwards
Moya Fox
Norma McGregor
Veronica Lynch
Carolyn Boland

Gail Thomson
Hannan Najar
Jeni Iannetta
Lisa Cathro

Our Advisory Board of professional women generously support this project with their time and expertise.

Braw Tea CIC is a not-for-profit community interest company

The objectives of the company are to benefit women in Dundee and the Tayside region who have suffered disadvantage.

We support our women by offering training, mentoring, experience of working in a live and busy cafe as well as employment support, professional counselling and coaching. We offer friendship and a safe community to build self-esteem and confidence.

Support us

Your support will help us to work with more women, building confidence, self-esteem and a route to employment, sometimes even fuelling second chances.

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