Community Innovation Hub
One place where learning, work and enterprise meet
The Hub brings our programmes under one roof — a practical, welcoming space where people train, collaborate, test ideas and start businesses.
Inside the Hub
Three centres, one shared platform
Women's Economic Empowerment Centre
A dedicated space for women to build enterprise skills, access finance literacy and leadership training, and bring products to market through shared production and selling space.
Hospitality, Culinary & Care Economy Academy
Practical training in the sectors that are hiring across Northern Thailand — kitchen and service skills, front-of-house, housekeeping, elder and child care — taught in real working environments.
Future Skills & Innovation Lab
Digital literacy, AI tools, design, content and online business skills, with mentoring and incubation support for people starting something of their own.
What happens here
A working space, not a showroom
On any given week the Hub hosts classes and practical training, mentoring sessions, women's enterprise production, employer meet-ups, community events and start-up coaching.
Facilities
- Training rooms and practical workshops
- Co-working and quiet learning spaces
- Demonstration kitchen and service area
- Digital lab with equipment access
- Meeting and community event space
- Small production and market space
Who can use it?
- Programme participants and alumni
- Women's enterprise groups
- Youth and adolescent learners
- Local entrepreneurs and start-ups
- Partner organisations and trainers
- Employers running recruitment sessions
Enterprise opportunities
Space to start something
The Hub is also a launchpad. Participants can pilot a product, run a pop-up, take a first catering order or test a service with real customers — with coaching and shared facilities behind them, and a route into our social enterprise platform when they are ready to scale.
Our unique value proposition
What makes this model different
We earn, not only fundraise
Traditional grant cycles are short and unpredictable. Trading income gives our programmes a base that does not disappear when a funding round closes.
The business is the classroom
Trainees learn in operating businesses with real customers, real standards and real deadlines — the fastest route to employability.
Surplus goes back in
We are not distributing profit. Surplus is reinvested into training places, equipment, stipends and enterprise support for participants.
Employers are partners, not an afterthought
Because we operate commercially, we speak the same language as the businesses that ultimately hire our graduates.
Social Enterprise Platform
Eight services, one mission
Each line of business creates income for the mission and a training or employment opportunity for someone in our programmes.
Café & Bistro
A public café that doubles as a barista and service training floor.
Catering
Event and corporate catering delivered by culinary trainees and graduates.
Community Marketplace
A retail channel for women-led enterprises and local producers.
Training Academy
Fee-based and sponsored courses in hospitality, care and digital skills.
Venue & Events
Meeting, workshop and event space hire for partners and businesses.
Consultancy
Advisory on inclusive hiring, migrant workforce and community programmes.
Job Matching
Connecting trained, work-ready talent with employers who are hiring.
Corporate Partnerships
Sponsorship, CSR programmes and shared-value collaborations.
The reinvestment loop
Every baht earned comes back to the community
- 01
Business Revenue
- 02
Reinvestment
- 03
Community Programmes
- 04
Skills & Employment
- 05
Greater Impact
Greater impact grows the enterprise, which funds more programmes — a loop, not a line.