Fourth KIK Coffee shop opens in Salisbury
LOUISE Nobes has a mission to end youth unemployment – and is kicking goals towards that aim by opening her Salisbury coffee shop – the fourth under the KIK brand.
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LOUISE Nobes has a mission to end youth unemployment – and is kicking goals towards that aim by opening her Salisbury coffee shop.
KIK Coffee, located at 2 Church St, was created to empower disadvantaged youth by providing jobs and training programs under the influence of InspiredBUY, a not-for-profit organisation founded by Mrs Nobes.
She was motivated to promote change by her experiences as a social worker for 15 years – when she encountered the effects of long-term unemployment.
“I made a clear decision on how we are going to help people not end up permanently
disadvantaged,” she says.
With help from the Department of State Development, the DreamBIG program – from Mrs Nobes’s InspiredBUY organisation – offers trainees the chance to design their own business ideas.
The Salisbury store is her third such venture.
She runs others at Modbury and at the former Royal Adelaide Hospital site, which currently employs 32 young people – most of them from the northern suburbs.
Michael Evans, an innovative 24-year-old, is a classic success story from the Kik Coffee program.
He now oversees the operation of the Royal Adelaide Cafe, alongside the management of chocolate production for all three outlets.
KIK Coffee is situated in the Goodwill Store on Church Street, Salisbury and has been designed to prepare workers for the hustle and bustle of takeaway service along with seating for up to 12 customers.
Mrs Nobes’s goals for next year include growing the cafe’s social and economic sucess, boosting the chocolate output and continuing to help disadvantaged youth “build their skills and knowledge to transform their lives”.
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