Anna’s Community Cafe

Thank you to BBC TV for visiting Anna’s community cafe with me in our attempt to highlight importance of partnership working to resolve dilemmas faced by us in society.

 

This visit followed by my last mind-blowing’ visit to Anna’s Community Cafe, a place where people often written off by society are being given the opportunity to gain practical skills and experience in a real-life working kitchen and restaurant that serves the local community.

 

The multi-purpose project, which is located at St Herbert’s Court retirement living scheme, predominantly supports volunteers recovering from addiction alongside people with learning disabilities and the unemployed.

 

During their time here, volunteers not only learn how to freshly prepare, cook and serve healthy and affordable meals, they gain a variety of other useful skills including things like how to use a barista machine.

 

They also obtain valuable experience in stock management and customer service, with the project paying for volunteers to obtain food hygiene certificates and safeguarding training too, to ensure they’re ready for full-time work in hospitality.