Hope Enterprises CIC

Hope Enterprises is a social enterprise and community interest company set up by Northampton’s Hope Centre, a charity, with more than 47 years’ experience working with the town’s poorest and most excluded people.

Through giving training and work, at a fair rate of pay, in a supportive environment, we help people to rejoin society and stand on their own two feet

Hope Enterprises has several projects:

• Hope Catering – contract catering and buffets for business meetings, parties and events
• Hope Tools – a recycling and training social enterprise, refurbishing second-hand garden tools
• Hope Foodclub – a social supermarket providing affordable and healthy food to those on benefits, serving people 52 weeks a year
• Hope Gardening – a growing and training project producing healthy veg and fruit for use in our foodclub and also providing training in horticulture and education to the public
• Hope Charity shop and retail training – charity shop discount clothes to people on low incomes, work experience and comprehensive retail training to help people enter the trade

Our service delivery is a ‘hand up’ not a ‘hand out’ provision and we help our clients to move away from a life living on margins of society. We encourage them to improve their lives, so that they can engage in main stream society as active members.

In 2021, Hope adds a new social enterprises to its work – a decorating project training people in painting and decorating and offering this service to the community