The Community Café offers a safe and comfortable warm space for folk to come and socialise with others and access wider support and help with social isolation and loneliness. The café operates on a pay as you feel basis offering exceptionally good coffee and homemade cake and is the hub for all of our main activities. The Café is open from 10am to 3pm Tuesday to Thursday during term time and is also advertised as a ‘warm space’ open to the community.

Community Cafe

The pressure on families struggling to put food on the table due to the rising cost of living and higher food prices is unrelenting and is extremely worrying and concerning to us all as the number of people supported is constantly rising. Our food parcel service is provided every week with no breaks, even over the Christmas period and our volunteers continue to provide an amazing level of support, standing up to the stressful conditions that go along with working in a time of much difficulty in the community that we serve.

Food Parcels

Our Make Lunch sessions support families that struggle providing meals for their children when they do not have free meals at school. Each weekly session included games, craft, story time and a hot nutritional meal. Response has been very good with parents saying how fantastically good are the meals, and in particular the homemade cottage pie. The atmosphere is brilliant and the children love the sessions.

Make Lunch

This group is an extension of Crafty Needles and meets throughout the year with monthly sessions on Fridays, teaching sewing machine skills. It has a small but committed number of attendees.

Sew Crafty

In response to the pressing need for parents of young people receiving counselling for self-harming, anxiety and depression, this support group for parents runs on Friday mornings. The group gives parents an opportunity to converse freely and confidentially with others in a similar situation for support. Please contact Jo if you are interested in this.

Family Matters

Poppy Café meets on Wednesday mornings and is a support group for those with challenging life issues, particularly mental and physical, to offer a wider range of support activities to improve self- confidence, self- esteem and encourage individuals to safely socialise.  The group offers a safe refuge, offering socializing through chat, board games, cooking, gardening, craft and singing.

Poppy Cafe

The community garden provides a place of quiet relaxation for our clients and offers an opportunity for some of our less able clients to find joy in the gardening and planting seeds. There are further developments in mind to make access to all parts of the ground and to introduce more seating.

Community Garden

Chatterbox is our parent and toddlers group that meet each Tuesday afternoon during term time in a friendly and warm atmosphere warm. The group has been in existence for 20 plus years and remains an important and consistent part of our family support. During the sessions, the children do craft and enjoy refreshments in the community café.

Chatterbox Parent & Toddler Group

Snip N’ Trim: The monthly visit of Halle, our professional hairdresser, offering clients on low income, the opportunity for a free haircut. It has proved an extremely welcomed opportunity and giving clients a bit of pampering.

Snip N’ Trim

If you need one-to-one support, our Community Family Project Worker, Jo Brown is able to offer support over the phone or in person. If you would like to talk or need support please contact us

One-to-One Support

Crafty Needles is our crochet and knitting group that started over 9 years ago to encourage like-minded people to come together and share their craft talents while also making new friends. The group meets on Tuesday’s at the church and has developed extremely well.

The group has become much more than the wonderful crafting, it is very much a support group too and close friendships have developed and has become a vital lifeline for many, particularly some very lonely people who live alone or have very difficult home lives. Just knowing that they have each other to talk to and share their problems makes a real difference. Here is a video introducing crafty needles ….

Crafty Needles