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At our social enterprises, students enjoy activities like

Cooking food

Growing plants

Serving customers

Using a till

Handling money

Our Vineyard Garden Centre and Vineyard Café are real businesses that help raise money to support everything we do at The Fifth Trust. They are also places where you can gain valuable work experience in a friendly and supportive environment.

At the Vineyard Garden Centre, students get involved in:

  • Growing and looking after plants
  • Serving customers and answering questions
  • Stocking shelves and helping keep the shop tidy

At the Vineyard Café, students help to:

  • Cook and prepare food using local and homegrown ingredients
  • Serve meals to customers
  • Use the till and handle payments
  • Work as a team with staff

These opportunities help you build real-world skills, confidence, and independence. Everything we make or grow is also sold to the public.

Our café and garden centre are based at the peaceful Elham Valley Vineyard. We also offer experience in other social enterprises like The Wood Shack, log deliveries, and garden maintenance, where you can work alongside skilled instructors on practical jobs for local people.
Fifth Trust horticulture students maintain a church garden and graveyard; a male student in a high-vis jacket pushes a red mower.
Two Fifth Trust students in café uniforms smile and point at an apple pie; woman on left wears a Christmas jumper, man on right wears maroon uniform.
Three Fifth Trust students pose in front of colourful indoor plants; white and pink flowers surround two handmade bird boxes.
Fifth Trust student in high-vis vest pushes a mower among green vineyard rows in Elham Valley with café and blue sky in background.
Two female Fifth Trust students in café uniforms hold up a tray of chocolate bark, smiling at the camera in the kitchen.
Male Fifth Trust student with short brown hair, glasses, and an orange high-vis jacket smiles while holding a potted hanging basket in the garden centre.
Female Fifth Trust student with long brown hair in a ponytail wears blue gloves and a garden centre shirt while arranging small black pots in a tray.
Two Fifth Trust café students behind the till; bald man with glasses places a walnut and coffee cake, woman in blue jumper and café hat smiles at the camera, with cupcakes and Victoria sponge in background.
Fifth Trust student in a green high-vis jacket smiles while holding a packet of bird energy balls next to a table stacked with them.
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Fifth Trust student Diana in a maroon café uniform smiles happily while standing outside the café against a wooden background.

“Serving customers makes me feel happy. I like talking to everyone.”

Diana – Student