The Sandy Park Café is a not-for profit CIO run by Student Futures, a Charitable Trust registered with the charity commission, charity number 1180845.
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Tuesday to Friday - 10:00am - 2:00pm
Please note that from Tuesday 8th June the Café will fully re-open for our customers. We presently have 5 students who are still gaining work experience whilst working in the Café. |
Sandy Park Café
154 Derby Lane Liverpool L13 6QQ Telephone: 0151 345 8787 |
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Overview
The Sandy Park Café is part of our whole school employability strategy at Sandfield Park School – supporting pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) to gain relevant work based skills and to give them improved opportunities of getting paid employment once students have left school.
Nationally only 5% of students with SEND gain any form of paid employment once they have left school.
Student Futures with 4 non-paid directors will ensure that The Sandy Park Café follow The object of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). This is:
Nationally only 5% of students with SEND gain any form of paid employment once they have left school.
Student Futures with 4 non-paid directors will ensure that The Sandy Park Café follow The object of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). This is:
- a) For the public benefit to promote the education (including social and physical training) of people under the age of 25 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) by providing meaningful work experience and supportive internships for these young people that could lead to employment opportunities and improve on the current 5% nationally of SEND young people who only achieve this.
Where are we up to?
Since the opening of the café in January 2019, twenty three students have been provided with work experience there. Some of these have been short – term placements (less than 4 weeks) with most longer (6 months plus). Four of the students who worked at the café last academic year have now moved on to Supported Internships either at the Marriot Hotel or The Liverpool Museum. This is the next step in helping students gain paid employment. In all cases work experience at the café helped them gain specific work related learning skills that they are now using in their new roles. Their general increase in confidence by meeting and dealing with the general public has been the biggest positive result.
We have also used the café as a way to motivate individual students to improve their school attendance as well as develop work related learning skills. One student who started work in the café this term has seen his attendance rise from 63% last year to 98% last term.
In addition to training in the café, new students have now also had the opportunity to undertake food hygiene training.
We have also used the café as a way to motivate individual students to improve their school attendance as well as develop work related learning skills. One student who started work in the café this term has seen his attendance rise from 63% last year to 98% last term.
In addition to training in the café, new students have now also had the opportunity to undertake food hygiene training.
Sandy Park Café team up with Two Michelin Star Restaurant, Moor Hall, Aughton
It is with great pleasure that I can announce Sandy Park Café are collaborating with Moor Hall Restaurant with Rooms and its Chef Patron Mark Birchall.
Moor Hall, which holds two Michelin Stars and five AA rosettes, will host students from Sandfield Park School on educational visits throughout the year, to give them first-hand experience in their kitchen, and will make regular contributions to Sandy Park Café. Celebrated chef Mark will also create regular dishes that we will serve at the café - a fantastic accolade from the UK’s number one restaurant, a title given to Moor Hall at Restaurant Magazine’s Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards last year. We are very grateful to Mark and all the staff and customers at Moor Hall.
Moor Hall, which holds two Michelin Stars and five AA rosettes, will host students from Sandfield Park School on educational visits throughout the year, to give them first-hand experience in their kitchen, and will make regular contributions to Sandy Park Café. Celebrated chef Mark will also create regular dishes that we will serve at the café - a fantastic accolade from the UK’s number one restaurant, a title given to Moor Hall at Restaurant Magazine’s Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards last year. We are very grateful to Mark and all the staff and customers at Moor Hall.
Support, Donations and Grants
We would like to thank the many people who have supported and made donations to Sandy Park Café. Initially the Café was set up by the A.J. Bell Trust with the support from Food for Thought, Quinn Barrow Solicitors, Liverpool City Council and the National Lottery Community Fund. The A.J. Bell Trust have allowed Student Futures to use the building for no cost and contributed the rental income from the two-bedroom flat above the Cafe. To help the Café remain sustainable we have received various donations in particular from James Crombie (Parent) and his friend Craig McAdam, Liverpool Scooter Club (see presentation picture below), Sean Munro from CCC Waste and the customers from Moor Hall Restaurant with Rooms, Aughton.
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