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Peoples Coffee

Peoples Coffee Lukes Lane

After spending 12 years based in Newtown, just out of Wellington City, roaster Peoples Coffee has opened its second flagship café in the heart of Wellington’s CBD. “We really wanted to take what was so beautiful about [the Newtown café], an inclusive space serving great coffee with a simple complementary menu, and transplant it into the city,” Peoples Coffee Marketing Manager Jesse Finn says. “[Newtown started as] a little hole in the wall and over the years the space has really grown. Now it’s this fantastic café that attracts a real cross section of the community. This time, we can take everything that we’ve learnt and really hit the ground running with the new space.”
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Trade School Kitchen

Trade School Kitchen

On 20 August, Trade School Industries launched a project two years in the making: Trade School Kitchen, a café that employs former inmates. “We began by running barista courses out of a women’s prison,” says Lauren Tennent, Training and Employment Manager at Trade School Industries. “It got to a point where the training program was running really well, and the women were getting great skills out of it, but the employment pathways just weren’t there. So, we came up with the idea of opening a café to employ the women we train once released.”
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