08/08/2001
Special Cookie company commended
The Chief Executive of the Special EU Programmes Body has commended a Conlig Bakery on its “remarkable sales” record.
‘Challenge Cookie Company’, which is funded by the EU Peace Programme, employs and train’s people with learning disabilities and who may also have additional mental health and behavioural needs.
Set-up in 1997 by the Northern Ireland Charity Challenge, the Conlig bakery recently announced a 100 per cent sales increase in the past six months.
Jon McKinney, Chief Executive of the Special EU programmes Body said: “The EU Peace Programme is built around five priority theme, Challenge Cookie Company exemplifies three of these; the first by boosting economic growth and employment, the second in encouraging social inclusion and the third for promoting productive investment and industrial development.
The company is currently in the process of opening a coffee shop that will sell its own produce and be run by trainees. (MB)
‘Challenge Cookie Company’, which is funded by the EU Peace Programme, employs and train’s people with learning disabilities and who may also have additional mental health and behavioural needs.
Set-up in 1997 by the Northern Ireland Charity Challenge, the Conlig bakery recently announced a 100 per cent sales increase in the past six months.
Jon McKinney, Chief Executive of the Special EU programmes Body said: “The EU Peace Programme is built around five priority theme, Challenge Cookie Company exemplifies three of these; the first by boosting economic growth and employment, the second in encouraging social inclusion and the third for promoting productive investment and industrial development.
The company is currently in the process of opening a coffee shop that will sell its own produce and be run by trainees. (MB)
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