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We are a community cafe at the heart of the Cotteridge community. We have a fantastic team of volunteers and also employ a cook and an assistant cook. We provide freshly cooked hot meals, snacks and hot drinks. Our regular customers, from the very young to the very elderly, are known by name and find friendship and support. With the cost-of-living crisis our Warm Spaces project is to extend our opening hours, offer free hot drinks and toast and signpost services such as energy saving advice, foodbanks and community workers.

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Our Warm Space Cafe provides a gathering space within the heart of the Cotteridge community. People come in for a meal or hot drink but find so much more. They find friendship or can sit quietly within a safe warm space. There are opportunities to join in community activities such as knit and natter, a stay and play group, coach trips for the older people who often live alone (at Christmas we ran two coach trips as they were so popular taking 60 people altogether for a day out).

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We are crowd funding because we are committed to providing the very best experience in our Warm Space Community Cafe. We are planning to extend the menu to provide healthy choices and to meet the dietary needs of our customers. . We have many families who regularly come to our cafe and we want to make our menus more appealing to children. Our kitchen also provides daily hot meals for our members of our Older Adults Day Care Centre. We need to replace some of our kitchen equipment and crockery. We would like to improve the ambience with new aprons for our volunteers, new tablecloths, newspapers and magazines. We also need to improve our marketing with new signage and a menus board. Our ongoing staffing and energy costs are prohibitive but nevertheless we have a vision to gorw and expand what we offer in the way of a warm welcome space.

Many of our regular customers have wide-ranging needs and vulnerabilities. The cost-of-living crisis has hit many in our community very hard. Whoever comes into our Warm Space deserves the best we can provide. We aim to improve the quality of every individual's life as well as helping to create a healthy community

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The money raised through crowd funder will go towards our ongoing expenditure. We have staffing costs - a cook and assistant cook, our energy bills are enormous although we have an active eco group helping us to conserve energy, and then there are the food and drinks bills. Any financial support through Crowd funder will help us to pay our way as we seek to provide the best we can in our Warm Space in Cotteridge.

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Warm Spaces, The Cotteridge Church - a Community crowdfunding ... - Crowdfunder UK