Ms Taylor co-founded the company with her sister Amy Taylor and Paul Humpherson, all of whom had come from careers in the criminal justice system. <\/p>\n
With annual revenues exceeding \u00a32.5m, their business has delivered 105,000 hours of paid employment to prisoners and ex-offenders.<\/p>\n
“One person joined us after a very long prison sentence, hadn’t really had any work experience,” Ms Taylor said.<\/p>\n
“[He] worked his way through the bakery, moved to front of house, found that he had a real knack for customer service and is now in a management role in our caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n
“It’s really exciting to see things like that and we’re just really proud of everybody who comes through.”<\/p>\n
She said it was now at a point where it was looking to “really turbocharge our growth”.<\/p>\n
“It’s come at a time that we think we could use some external investment and we would love to get more people involved as well,” she added.<\/p>\n
“We were hoping to raise around \u00a3500,000 and we have we’ve passed that, so we’re into extra funding at the moment.<\/p>\n
“It’s just been really nice to see so many people want to be part of what we’re doing and get involved and become a shareholder as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Taylor co-founded the company with her sister Amy Taylor and Paul Humpherson, all of whom had come…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[45,49,48,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-46524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entrepreneurship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}