Community Cafe @ Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre

Hub London & South East

Number of people in group:

65

Active participants in last year:

20000

These numbers include people coming through the riverhouse arts centre for various activities and are very rough.

Group started:

2019 for this iteration of the cafe - the arts centre was founded in 1989 and has been run mainly by volunteers for most of this time.

Paid roles?

Yes

Legal Structure:

Company

How active is your group?

Very Active

Live Projects:

• Community Growing
• Other food projects
• Community hub or activities
• Festivals, fairs or events
• Art / creativity
• Community visioning / imagination work
• Building local networks
• Wellbeing or Inner Transition
• Youth or education projects
• Share, Repair or reuse

This Community Cafe in our Arts Centre in Walton uses surplus food  to create specials and daily soups and cakes.

This not for profit venture partly provides funds to keep our community arts centre afloat, but also offers free meals to those in need, a meeting place for local groups and charities, chatter and natter tables and free coffees and cakes to help people get out and about and also offers work placement to youngsters with special needs.

We opened in March 2019 and are feeling our way into new ventures, some more successful than others.

The arts centre has declared a climate emergency and is hoping that 2020 will be the start of a decade of change and delivery when it comes to tackling the multiple and complicated issues surrounding climate change.