BREWING SKILLS, BUILDING FUTURE.
Real Hope Leeds is a social enterprise based in Leeds, dedicated to empowering refugees and asylum seekers. We offer specialised training programmes in barista skills and hospitality, helping individuals build valuable expertise. Through our partnerships, we create opportunities for job placements, providing a path to a brighter future.
Together we bring Real Hope
Enjoy our Food
Savour delicious meals through our catering and pop-up dining experiences.
Senait, Real Hope Graduate
“I highly recommend this programme! I’ve learned how to be a barista and serve customers. During the training, I met many wonderful people and really enjoyed making coffee!”
Arash Kourjani
Co-founder of Real Hope Leeds
Meet Arash
I came to the UK as an asylum seeker. During that time I saw how easily asylum seekers and refugees could be taken advantage of the black market. They are not given their proper rights.
I decided that one day I would use my passion for food, and desire to help others, to equip refugees for work in the main economy.
This is why Real Hope Leeds was founded, to help people not get caught up in the slave lifestyle of working in the black market, but to have self respect, dignity and a future. A real hope.
"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."