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Canteen open today 8:00–15:00 (sample)

(555) 018-4400

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Everything we sell pays someone's wage

Brickfield Works (sample) is a community-owned company on Canal Street. We run a canteen, a bike workshop and a print room, and each of them gives paid work to people finding their way back into a job.

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Owned by 340 members in Springfield. Profits stay here, by law (sample).

Brickfield Canteen

40 Canal Street, Springfield

Tue 14 Oct 12:48, till 2

Served by Dami, trainee, week 6

Soup of the day and bread5.50

Cheese and onion toastie4.80

Flat white3.20

Total$13.50

Where your $13.50 went

Wages, trainees and staff6.20

Food and drink3.80

Rent, power, insurance1.90

Next traineeship1.60

Thank you. Four trainees on shift today.

Example prices. Split from last year’s accounts (sample).

What we run

Three small businesses under one roof. Each one charges a fair local price, pays at least the real living wage and trains people on paid placements.

A barista in an apron serving a customer across a steel café counter

Brickfield Canteen

Breakfast, soup and toasties, a weekly special and office catering for 10 to 120 people.

Mon–Fri 8:00–15:00, Sat 9:00–14:00

Canteen and catering

Brickfield Canteen

Of every $10 spent here (sample)

Where it goes

Wages4.60

Food and drink2.80

Rent and power1.40

Traineeship fund1.20

Two mechanics in blue overalls repairing a bicycle on a workshop stand

Bike workshop

Repairs while you work, full services, refurbished bikes and Saturday fix-it sessions.

Tue–Sat 8:30–17:30

Repairs and bikes

Bike workshop

Of every $10 spent here (sample)

Where it goes

Wages5.70

Parts2.10

Rent and power1.10

Traineeship fund1.10

A printer pulling ink across a silk screen on a workbench

Print room

Posters, leaflets, T-shirts and tote bags, screen-printed and risograph-printed by hand from 25 copies.

Mon–Fri 9:00–17:00

Print prices

Print room

Of every $10 spent here (sample)

Where it goes

Wages4.90

Ink and paper2.60

Rent and power1.30

Traineeship fund1.20

An experienced worker showing a trainee how to handle a part at a workbench

Paid traineeships, twelve weeks at a time

For adults who have been out of work for a while: after prison, after care, after illness or after years of looking after someone. You are paid from the first day, at $16.10 an hour (sample).

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How it works

Weeks 1–2

Start on the floor

Shadow a supervisor in one venture and get your food hygiene or workshop safety certificate.

Weeks 3–8

Your own shifts

Run a till, a repair stand or a print job, 24 hours a week, with a supervisor close by.

Weeks 9–12

The next job

Mock interviews, a reference from us and introductions to local employers who are hiring.

Rooms to hire

The yard has a hall, a meeting room and a teaching kitchen. Community groups pay half.

Main hall, seats 80

Community groups $16 an hour

$32 an hour

Meeting room, seats 12

$18 an hour

Teaching kitchen, six stations

$45 an hour

Canteen catering for your booking

From $6.50 a head

Example prices.

Booking a room

Tell us the date, the time and roughly how many people. We hold the room for three days while you decide.

  • Step-free access to every room
  • Tables, chairs and a projector included
  • Evenings and Saturdays until 22:00
Ask about a date

Owned by the people who use it

Anyone who lives or works in Springfield can buy a $25 share and become a member. Every member has one vote, however many shares they hold. Members elect the board and decide each year how the traineeship fund is spent.

One share

$25

Votes per member

One

Next members’ meeting

Thu 13 Nov, 18:30

Meeting date (sample).

Become a member
People listening to a speaker at a meeting in a brick-walled room

Buy social for your business

Order the office lunch from the canteen, put your company bikes on a service plan, print your event posters with us. Every invoice comes with a short note of the wages your order paid for.

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Catering menu

Notices

All notices

Find the yard

Brickfield Works
40 Canal Street, Springfield (sample)

Canteen

Mon–Fri 8:00–15:00, Sat 9:00–14:00

Bike workshop

Tue–Sat 8:30–17:30

Print room

Mon–Fri 9:00–17:00

Opening hours (sample).

  • Buses 4 and 19 stop at Canal Bridge
  • Step-free entrance from the towpath
  • Bike racks for 30 in the yard
Get directions
Map of the streets around Brickfield Works on Canal Street
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Canteen open today 8:00–15:00 (sample)

(555) 018-4400

[email protected]

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