Category: Waterloo Cafe
Dec 8, 2022 | 16Days of Freedom, About Modern Slavery, Blog, Ending Modern Slavery, Ethical Business, Ethical Events, Waterloo Cafe
The Freedom Hub’s vision is to help rebuild the lives of survivors of slavery in Australia and partner in ending modern slavery around the world. Our founder, Sally Irwin, pioneered a model for social change by building influential “hubs” that fund and...
Apr 14, 2022 | Blog, Ethical Events, Social Impact Report, Waterloo Cafe
Purpose has become more important than ever over the last two years. How has consumer spending changed toward purpose, and what is The Freedom Hub doing to leverage this opportunity. Since the day we opened our first cafe in 2015, The Freedom Hub has been...
Oct 26, 2021 | Blog, Child Labour, Ending Modern Slavery, Ethical Business, Forced Labour, Slavery in Cocoa, Waterloo Cafe
From our hometowns to the global scale, injustice happens everywhere, every day. Sadly, this means issues get forgotten about, or overpowered by other problems. However, we rarely stop talking about them because they have been fixed. Those who have a hand in these...
Aug 3, 2021 | Blog, Waterloo Cafe
Cafe and Event Life – our Q2 Update 2021 Our amazing cafe team is doing all they can to keep life exciting by serving locals at the door during the Sydney lockdown. While our sales are 84% down, spirits are high as every day they bake new exciting...
May 17, 2021 | Blog, Ending Modern Slavery, Ethical Business, Waterloo Cafe
Our Ethical Business projects have a number of purposes. we started these with the idea to fund the work we do with our survivors (Covid has set this aim right back!) so we can model to other businesses how to put people over profit and have a low risk of slavery in...
Apr 26, 2021 | Blog, Child Labour, Global Modern Slavery Updates, Slavery in Coffee, Stats and Facts about Modern Slavery, Waterloo Cafe
Is Your Coffee Brewing Slavery? How do you know and what can you do to be sure you aren’t? Every morning, the process of getting a cup of coffee is pretty simple. Because you just put your coffee grounds into your coffee machine and hit start. Even though this...
Nov 8, 2020 | Blog, Ending Modern Slavery, Waterloo Cafe
At last the Waterloo cafe is crawling its way out of the Covid doldrums!!! We have travelled from March figures being 75% behind last year to October 45% behind. It’s a tricky time because we are busy enough to need more staff but not enough revenue to pay for...
Oct 9, 2020 | Blog, Ending Modern Slavery, Ethical Business, Waterloo Cafe
There is so much to update you on with regards to the ‘income’ side of our charity. As you can imagine, COVID hit us hard as we have always set ourselves up with 60% of our revenue coming from our own business enterprises. Our ethical businesses include:...
Sep 14, 2020 | Blog, Ending Modern Slavery, Ethical Business, Waterloo Cafe
Weddings, Babies and Vegan Treats: What do these things have in common? That will be our Waterloo Venue. Our venue is a Cafe by Day & and Event Venue by Night! Find out more in this blog….. August 2020 Café and Events Recap Weddings are Back in our Venue...
Jul 23, 2020 | Blog, Ending Modern Slavery, Ethical Business, Forced Labour, Slavery in Cocoa, Slavery in Hospitality, Waterloo Cafe
Thinking you may have slavery in your dinner or dessert can leave a bad taste in your mouth. Shopping ethically can seem overwhelming. At the Freedom Hub Cafe we have always worked hard to partner with suppliers who audit their supply chain. That way you can be sure...
