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"The Cage", the area behind the
cafe, is open on Thursday evenings for
local
young people to meet, chat, buy low-priced food
and drinks.
There
hasn't been much activity there during the
winter, so if you don't
find
anyone there, come around to the cafe, which is
open on Thursday
evenings
for the young people's Netcafe, between 5pm and
8pm -
Netcafe
Whenever
the Cafe is open, the computers are available to
anyone over 16.
For
the under 16s we have a special opening time of
5pm until 9pm on
Thursday
evenings. The charge is £1 per hour.
One
thing we would like to see happening with the
Netcafe, is that people
who
know computers, help out people who would like
to learn. It would be
great
to see young people, for example, helping older
people set up an email
address
to contact their children or relatives who live
far away. Netcafe would
give
free use-time to anyone who would help in that
way.
We
are also hoping for volunteers to teach basic
computer use or Internet use -
no
qualifications required, just that you know how
to do it and can show
someone
else!
If
you'd like to help, call 07974 423246 or come
into the Cafe when it is open -
Tue,
Wed and Thur, 11am - 6pm.
Cafe Church TIME SWAP
For
a while, we were operating a Time Bank (Cottage
Beck Time Swap, a member
of
Time Banks UK). A Time Bank is a facility that
allows you to give your time in exchange for
someone
else's
- doing something you enjoy, to help someone
else, and "banking" those hours
until
you need help with something, and someone else
in the Time Bank helps you. Anything
from
dog-walking, plumbing, furniture moving,
telephoning, decorating, talking - there
are
as many possibilities as there are
people!
However,
the Time Swap needs a manager, willing to
volunteer about one hour per day; Sue Woodrow,
who
previously managed and set up the Time Bank, has
had to step back from it, and until
we
have another manager the Cottage Beck Time Swap
is "on hold", with apologies to anyone
who
was enjoying what it did.
If
you know of anyone who might be interested in
getting it going again, let us know!
Legal advice at Café Church
With the support of local solicitors firm Pepperell,
Cottage Beck Cafe Church
host surgery hours when you can have twenty minutes to
talk to a solicitor for FREE.
Long enough to a lay a worry to rest, or find out if it is worth your while to make a longer appointment
with a solicitor at his or her office, or just ask questions about some point of law that you are unsure of.
www.pepperells.co.uk
Perhaps you are not sure of your rights as a tenant or house owner, perhaps you are worried about your children's future,
or about something someone else is doing, there are all sorts of things that could be helped by just a few minutes
with a solicitor.
If you would like an appointment, in confidence, drop into the café
when it is open or telephone 07976 360844
and you will be slotted into the diary at the next available space that suits you. The Solicitors Surgeries will probably
be held on
Tuesday or Wednesday evenings, or some Friday mornings.
surgeries@cafechurch.com
Poetry Evenings
There has been interest shown in the Cafe opening from time to time for poetry evenings times when local
amateur poets get together to read their
poetry to each other and to anyone else who wants to be there.
A chance to discuss ideas, brainstorm new poetry styles, and enjoy a shared passion for poetry.
How much interest would there be in this idea?
Or in any other idea to do with reading - how
about
a
book club?
Phone Café Church on Wednesdays or Thursdays or drop in when it is open and let us know.
poetry@cafechurch.com
Cafe Church opening Hours:
Tuesday
- Thursday, 11am to 6pm
VOLUNTEERS WANTED!!!
All Cafe Church
team are volunteers and we want to be open as
many hours as possible so that there are
lots of
opportunities for people to come into the cafe,
either to relax, eat or have a chat about the
local
community and ways Cafe Church could be
helping. If you have a few hours to spare each
week
we would love to hear from you. Call 07974
423 246 or
click here to email us
International Volunteers:
It's
one of those nice stories... Eija Koivuranta is
from Helsinki, Finland. She heard about
the Cafe Church,
and
volunteered to come and help out for a while.
Nearly two years later, she's still
here....
because...
Andrew
Wright, from Melbourne, Australia, was already
here. He wanted to spend a year in Europe,
so looked
for
work and eventually ended up in the IT
department at North Lincs College, Scunthorpe.
He found
this
web site and volunteered to help us set up the
Netcafe...
-
six months later Eija arrived...
Andrew
is still here, although his one year is now
two-and-a-half....
They
got married, at the Cafe, in May 2004! Isn't that a nice story!
We don't know how long they will
stay with us, but we
are enjoying the "international connection"
while we have it!
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