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This project successfully funded on 12th April 2024, you can still support them with a donation.
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This project successfully funded on 12th April 2024, you can still support them with a donation.
Aim: To continue the work of 'Roots Coffee & Community' in serving the people of Kingsholm
Roots Coffee and Community has done amazing work serving the people of Kingsholm and the wider community for the last 10 years. It was set up by a small group of friends who felt compelled by their Christian faith to live out that faith in action by providing a community hub - a safe place for the people of Kingsholm to enjoy affordable coffee and cake, to gather and to share their common life.
During Covid lockdown, Roots became the centre for feeding people throughout Gloucester and coordinating various community programmes. Last year, a Refill shop was launched to provide affordable food without all the plastic packaging.
However, since lockdown, things have been hard - the cost of living, rising energy prices and the loss of key staff have all contributed towards a financial position that was unsustainable.
Here's what some local people said:
Unfortunately, the problems that Roots encountered meant that by the end of 2023 it faced permanent closure.
But there is HOPE. Once the closure of Roots was announced, there was an incredible response from the local community. Ordinary people came together because they valued the role Roots played in building community and serving a variety of practical needs. As a result, it was felt important that some kind of RESCUE PLAN should be launched to continue the work of Roots but with renewed energy and purpose. All this requires effort - skills and experience needed to form a new management structure, new ideas about how to improve Roots and of course, money. We need money to secure the assets of the former business, to build up reserves and to establish a fighting fund for new equipment and to make changes that will help to Roots become more sustainable in the future.
We are just ordinary people, who love Roots and don't want to see it close down permanently. Whatever you are able to give will be used to continue the work of Roots in serving the people of Kingsholm and ensuring that work continues and grows in the future.