Co-op Warm Spaces Funding Boost has provided £520 of match funding
St Richards Church Deal, Warm Space & Cafe
Deal, Kent, United Kingdom
Aim
We aim to provide a welcoming warm space with hot food and drinks available free to everyone in our community.
Who are we?
Hello we are the Parish of Upper Deal and Great Mongeham.
We are made up of the four churches of St Leonards; St Martins; St Nicholas and St Richards which serve Deal, in Kent and the surrounding villages.
Community impact
As a group of churches we strive to support all people in our local community in whatever ways we can - whether they are members of our congregation or not.
With the hardship of rising inflation, especially heating costs, this winter, we have joined with other churches and organisations in Deal and across the country to provide places where anyone who wishes to, can come together in a warm and welcoming space.
We have chosen to do this at St Richards, our church in Mill Hill, We will be open on Mondays between 09:30am and 3pm. starting from the 2nd January 2023
Our church will be open to everyone - old and young families or individuals - to come along and enjoy each others company for as much or as little of the time we are open as they wish, and to enjoy a cuppa and hot food, free of charge, while with us.
Why are we crowdfunding?
We want to to raise enough money to enable us to provide hot food, light meals and drinks free to everyone who comes along. We hope to be able to continue to do this throughout the winter and would love to be able to extend our opening times to other days of the week if possible.
How we’ll spend the money raised
Your donations will be used to help provide the food and drinks which will be free to all, to make free Wi Fi available, to offer various activities to join in with if people wish to and to help toward extra heating costs.
This project successfully funded on 5th March 2023