Opening 1 September 2026 · Beach Road

Learn coffee.
Build character.
Find hope.

A new kind of academy in the heart of Singapore — where specialty-coffee craft, life-changing soft skills, and a community of faith come together to help people write a brand-new chapter.

Be first through the doors. No spam — one email when we open.

ACF-certified coffee 3C Mastery Faith & formation
Hands cradling a cup of latte art
NVPC Company of Good 2025–2027 raiSE member — Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise
94% find a job after release.
We help them keep it.
Since 2017
One academy · three pillars

Skill, character & calling —
woven into one

Most training gets people a job. Keeping it takes more. Our tripartite curriculum builds all three at once.

01 Pillar C · Wednesdays

Specialty Coffee

Industry-certified barista training on the ASEAN Coffee Federation pathway — espresso, milk craft, latte art, brewing and sensory. Real, professional-grade skills.

02 Pillar B · Tuesdays

3C Mastery

Consistency, Communication, Commitment — the soft-skills series engineered to close the gap between getting a job and keeping it for the long run.

03 Pillar A · Mon & Thu

Faith & Formation

A Christ-centred track of discipleship, mentoring and community — because lasting change is rooted in a new identity, a steady hope, and people who walk with you.

Christ at the centre
Why we exist

The job isn't
the hard part.
Keeping it is.

94%
find a job pre-release
60%
still employed at 6 months
<15%
our recidivism target

In Singapore, 94% of referred ex-offenders find a job before release. But only about 60% are still employed six months later.

That drop-off isn't about skill — it's about consistency, relationships, and hope. The very things a barista course alone can't teach.

The TCE Academy is built to close that gap.

Statements of action

From where you've been
to who you're becoming

MessMinistry ChainsChange PrisonPassion GuiltyGrace FearFreedom AddictionAspiration

“The TCE Academy is, at heart, an entity of God — and we are simply stewards, walking with every willing person from one chapter into the next.”

Built on a track record

Not a start-up idea —
a proven mission, growing up

The Academy is the evening training arm of The Caffeine Experience, a Singapore social enterprise quietly changing lives since 2017.

2017
brewing 2nd chances since
120+
people walked with
$1.71M
paid in wages & CPF
~90%
of our team restarting life
The opening runway

From fit-out
to first cohort

Where we are on the road to opening.

Now · August 2026

Fit-out & pilot

Classroom, training bar and café build-out at The Gateway East, with a pilot cohort running alongside partner halfway houses.

1 September 2026

Doors open

The first evening intake begins. Café trades by day, classroom by night, five nights a week on Beach Road.

Today's devotion The Daily Grind · No. 214 Tuesday, 25 August 2026

The stone the
builders rejected

“The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” — Psalm 118:22

Every barista learns to sort beans. What we forget is that a bean rejected by one pair of hands is not a bean without worth — it was simply judged by the wrong standard, at the wrong moment, by someone who never asked where it came from…

Read the full devotion

A new devotion
every day

Short readings from the Academy's faith & formation team — written a week ahead, posted fresh each morning.

213 devotions in the archive
The countdown is on

The doors open
September 2026

Be first to hear about open days, enrolment, and how you can be part of the story.

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