Pop-up Hospitality Training School

Redchurch Street Welcomes Saira Hospitality

Launched on 16 May 2022, Saira Hospitality took up an empty space on Redchurch Street and became the Street’s first pop-up hospitality training school.

Saira partners with hospitality brands to educate and empower local communities. The organisation creates community-focussed hospitality schools. onRedchurch worked with Saira to use the Street’s location as a base for its UK debut. Across the six-week residency, Saira trained over 60 candidates for hospitality jobs who had been sourced from organisations local to Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Islington, including Job Centres and youth, homeless and migrant charities. Nine employer partners included The Hoxton, Nobu, Town Hall and Pan Pacific Hotel Group. By early July, 22 candidates had been placed in work.

Facilitated by the High Streets for All programme, the space in Derwent’s iconic Tea Building was provided by architects Buckley Gray Yeoman.