The Social Teahouse

The Social Teahouse is a social enterprise based in Varna, Bulgaria working on children & youth, employment & skills, education +2 more.

The Social Teahouse is a tea house and events venue in Varna, Bulgaria, that also serves as a workplace for young people who have grown up in residential care. Its tea lounge, workshops and events space generate activity that supports the organisation's work with young people from troubled social or family backgrounds. The organisation offers a mentoring programme that helps young people build independent living skills, healthy habits, job skills and financial literacy, and provides vocational and driving course support, school completion assistance and occasional health insurance for young mothers. It runs volunteer-led workshops in family-type housing centres, and through its Ukraine-related project it trains family consultants and peer support facilitators to support early childhood development for families with children with disabilities displaced by the war. It hosts events, and its partners include UNICEF, EASPD, Robert Bosch EOOD and the Bulgarian Center for Non-Profit Law.