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New Half the Story bakery to create even more life-changing jobs
Half the Story is a social enterprise run by Grace Enterprises, changing the lives of people experiencing major barriers to work, including homelessness. Since its launch in 2023, Half the Story has already generated over 10,000 hours of real Living Wage work, and sold over a million biscuits to corporate and retail partners around the UK. And now, Half the Story is celebrating the opening of its new bakery! Based at Half the Story’s site in Wilford, Nottingham, this state-o
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Life-Changing Partnerships: The Randal Charitable Foundation
We wanted to spotlight one of our funders - the Randal Charitable Foundation, who have supported Half the Story in its mission to create life-changing jobs through great-tasting biscuits! Founded by Dr Nik and Moni Kotecha, the Randal Foundation has saved or significantly improved 1 million lives globally, supporting various charities and enterprises in their missions. Half the Story are privileged to be one of the Randal Charitable Foundation's beneficiaries. Their support h
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Read our Impact Report
Our latest Impact Report is out now! We’re excited to share testimonials, key information and progress across 2024; it’s well worth the wait! A picture of our team, including wider team members from Radiant Cleaners, Jubilee Events & Half the Story The greatest win for us is hearing feedback from our employees about how Jubilee Events have benefitted them. Heather shared her experience: "My mental wellbeing is much relaxed. It (the job) gives me that stability for myself." So
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Practically building the kingdom
Suzannah O’Brien, chair of the Christian Funders Forum, and Matthew Parfitt, founder of Grace Enterprises, chat to Esther Higham about...
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Life-changing Biscuits
Half the Story & Grace Enterprises founder Matt, and our wonderful team member Anthony took biscuits and the story of life-changing jobs...
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We are finalists!
We are absolutely delighted to announce that we are double finalists in the NatWest Social Enterprise 100 awards! The awards, created and...
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What is the real Living Wage?
The real Living Wage is a voluntary minimum hourly rate designed to cover the average person’s living costs. Over 14,000 organisations...
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This Is My Story with Matt Parfitt on UCB Radio
Ruth O'Reilly-Smith talks to Matt about how he got from teaching to biscuits, via Kenya! Listen to his inspiring story of transforming...
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Faith Driven Entrepreneur podcast
One of the core marks of Faith Driven Entrepreneurs is to be active in the local church. But many entrepreneurs struggle to know what...
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Inspiring Stories: Grace Enterprises
Matt launches Half the Story, the third business in the Grace Enterprises family and the National Social Value Conference.
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TBN UK: All In
Are you all in? Matt Parfitt ventures across the UK to explore various Christian businesses and hear testimonies of Christians who went...
Oct 4, 20231 min read
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