Cielo is all about great coffee, in lovely cafe spaces, and generating profits to give away to local community… Help us open in York Place
Cielo is all about providing great coffee and food, in lovely cafe spaces, and generating profits to give away to local community projects. As a social enterprise we re-invest 100% of our profits back into the community.
The Project
We are looking to open a new Cielo coffee house in York Place, which is within the business district of Leeds city centre. To do this we are partnering with the Diocease of Leeds and Ripon who are generously subsidising our rent and fit out costs of the unit which sits on the ground floor of their new office building.
York Place:
Draft Plan:
The Why
We have a passion to use business to make a difference in our communities, not just through creating a home away from home, but also providing work placements and volunteer opportunities for people from different walks of life – with learning difficulties, recovering addicts, getting out of homelessness, young people, people who are out of work, people with mental health problems and people who just have spare time and want to give some time. And the icing on the cake is when we make profits which we can give away to local projects building community. You can see some of the projects we’ve given to from our other outlets atwww.lovetolive.org
Quality menu
Love isn’t cheap. To support these local community projects we need to make this entity sustainable. Coffee alone won’t do this and so we want to provide quality menu choices to compliment our fab coffee. First and foremost we want to provide a top quality light food and drink menu for the thousands of people who work within walking distance of York Place. We will serve speciality coffee which we have roasted ourselves in East Leeds, alongside some sourdough sandwiches and artisan salads, not to mention some tasty sweet treats and pastries.
How much we are raising
To be able to open in York Place we need your help. We need to raise £20,000 to cover our own set up costs and hit the ground running.
This money will pay for:
Rewards
As a thank you we’ve come up with some lovely little (and big) rewards from lunch at any Cielo, through to a full Cielo membership card that will entitle you to lifelong 20% off our online shop and 10% off all purchases in any Cielo outlet for the rest of your life! Take a look at the all the rewards on offer at the side of this page.
Thanks for journeying with us – we can’t do it without you.
PLEASE NOTE: we are unable to ship any rewards internationally. All rewards are for people within the UK only – but you’re very welcome to give to us from anywhere in the world!
Cielo Coffee is the trading name of Baraka Foundation Ltd a company limited by guarantee no. 6503049 Registered address 41 Main St, Garforth, Leeds LS25 2DS. VAT no. 981098881 Registered in the UK and trading since 2008. during our previous cafe startups we have previously received funding from Awards for All (Lottery), LCCT, Seedbed, Cinnamon Network, & UnLtd