KERB launches 2025 Impact Report

KERB has published its 2025 Impact Report, showcasing the positive progress made in supporting individuals from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds - including ex-offenders, refugees, youth offenders, and those affected by homelessness - into careers in hospitality and entrepreneurship.

The KERB Impact Report 2025 highlights:

• £116,000 invested into 13 new food businesses via Streets Ahead this year
• 69 individuals referred to the Coaching For Work programme at Seven Dials Market and The National Theatre 
• 26 individuals coached into paid employment  
• 14 new street food businesses graduated from free incubator programme 
• 1166 hours of free business and employment coaching delivered
• £32.7 million in revenue generated for 157 small businesses

KERB CEO Simon Mitchell, said: “In a year where we opened two new food halls - including our first international location in Berlin - the impact of KERB’s social enterprise continues to be our reason for existing. The next step is to find a permanent, game-changing home in the heart of London, dedicated entirely to social impact, where we can realise our mission of becoming the most impactful hospitality business in the world”. 

Founded in 2012 as a pop-up market on a King’s Cross building site, KERB has grown into a global hospitality organisation of over 150+ street food businesses, two flagship food halls (Seven Dials Market and KERB Berlin), events business, and a dedicated social enterprise. With a % of all commercial revenues being reinvested into its not-for-profit social enterprise, KERB is tackling some of the UK’s most pressing issues head-on.

KERB is on a mission to be the most impactful hospitality business in the world and recently expanded its social enterprise to San Francisco, where the business operates a food hall on behalf of INGKA Centres.

Back in the UK, the ambition for the next twelve months is to find a unique physical home where KERB can expand its social programmes and transform London's independent food scene. This space will serve as a hub for food, community, and impact — a place to host fundraisers, expand social programmes, and run supper clubs, industry talks, cooking classes, and much more.

To date, over 500 food businesses have thrived under KERB’s mentorship, including prestigious alumni such as Bleecker Burger, Bao, Pizza Pilgrims, Club Mexicana and more.

You can read the full KERB Impact Report 2025 online.

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