Through our bakeries and cafes, we create supportive, professional workplaces where women can gain meaningful experience via placements, apprenticeships and paid employment. At Luminary Bakery, women can develop practical skills and qualifications, build confidence, establish a track record, gain references and take their next steps towards sustainable employment.
We believe a job can be about much more than earning a wage. It can provide routine, purpose, community and a sense of what is possible.
By combining exceptional food and hospitality with genuine employment pathways, Luminary Bakery creates opportunities for women to build brighter, more independent futures.
As a social enterprise, our trading business generates income through our cafes, bakeries, products and hospitality services. This commercial activity creates the workplace environment where women serve real customers and work to real deadlines; the income helps us create more opportunities for women while delivering great food and experiences for our customers.
Buy a cake, book a corporate order, or support a placement directly. Each one keeps a real workplace open to a woman building her next step.
Many of the women who join us come to us through our sister charity, Luminary Women, and its two-year programme. Luminary Women runs the programme; at Luminary Bakery we provide the workplace, and the mentoring and support that come with a real job.