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Beacon Prize for Foundation Resident

10 January 2009
The Foundation is delighted to announce that Stoll Mansions resident Robert Barrett has been highly commended by The Beacon Fellowship Charitable Trust in the category of Beacon Prize for Community Builder.

Bob was highly commended in recognition of his work in setting up The Beef Kitchen. The mobile catering business was co-founded by Bob and other residents at the Foundation to provide fulfilling employment to former homeless ex-Servicemen and women who live at the Foundation.

Since July 2005 The Beef Kitchen has provided Sunday lunch to the Foundation's vulnerable residents to enhance a sense of community, and has provided food for special events that the charity holds. It also operates a superior mobile catering business for football fans from a licensed pitch on the ground of the Foundation, adjacent to Stamford Bridge, the home of Chelsea FC.

The success of The Beef Kitchen led Bob to encourage the Foundation to set up Pryors Bank Café, a vibrant commercial café in Bishops Park, Fulham, which also provides apprenticeships for former homeless ex-Servicemen and women. The café has now been open since July 2008, and the café's first apprentices are nearing the end of their placements, after which they will go into secure employment established by the Foundation.

Bob was nominated for the Beacon Fellowship Charitable Trust award by Foundation supporter Harry Wynne-Williams and senior representatives from the Foundation, who recognised the outstanding contribution Bob has made in recent years to the Beef Kitchen and more recently Pryors Bank Café.