The winter menu starts on Monday
Three new soups, a lentil pie and a bigger breakfast (sample).
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.
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.
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
Brickfield Canteen
Of every $10 spent here (sample)
Where it goes
Wages4.60
Food and drink2.80
Rent and power1.40
Traineeship fund1.20
Bike workshop
Repairs while you work, full services, refurbished bikes and Saturday fix-it sessions.
Tue–Sat 8:30–17:30
Bike workshop
Of every $10 spent here (sample)
Where it goes
Wages5.70
Parts2.10
Rent and power1.10
Traineeship fund1.10
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 room
Of every $10 spent here (sample)
Where it goes
Wages4.90
Ink and paper2.60
Rent and power1.30
Traineeship fund1.20
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).
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
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).
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.
Notices
Clean your chain in five minutes
A rag, a brush and a drop of oil: the job our mechanics wish everyone did (sample).
Print room open evening for community groups
See the screen-printing bench and the risograph, and print a test poster (sample).
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
