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This project successfully funded on 16th March 2023, you can still support them with a donation.
The Lounge Alvechurch: Supporting the Community
Birmingham, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Aim
To support the whole community via the warm & welcoming cafe space, our weekly Friendship Matters, senior support sessions & Youth groups.
As a Community café we pride ourselves with the work we do in supporting the local community.
Through our dedicated Friendship Matters senior support sessions on a Monday, we aim to help tackle loneliness and isolation by providing a safe, accessible and friendly space for seniors. Where they can take part in seated exercises, different weekly activities, receive subsidised hot food and drinks and benefit from the company of others. This group has now doubled in size from when it started over 3 years ago.
Our Community café is open to the public from Tues - Sat 9.00 - 3.00 offering a warm, welcoming and relaxed space, with a large selection of hot & cold food, cakes and locally sourced coffee. The aim is to keep prices affordable for all.
The Youth @ The Lounge offer 4 weekly (term time) youth group sessions after school, at a subsidised rate, allowing it to be accessible to all from 9 years upwards. As well as offsite school holiday activities for local youth.
Throughout the year The Lounge runs and supports local community events, which includes community litter picks, an Easter Trail, Picnic in the park stall, supporting the Scarecrow Trail as well as hosting storytelling events on an evening.
The Lounge Community café is in the heart of the village and we want to continue to offer & be the safe, welcoming space for the whole community. As a registered charity ( Alvechurch Communities Together) we rely on funding, as well as customer spending to continue the work we do. We are always looking at how we can further expand our support to the community.
Any additional funding will help us to continue to offer our current community support groups/activities and to help us to keep our café prices affordable for all, when everything else is increasing with the cost of living crisis.
Co-op Warm Spaces Funding Boost has provided £616 of match funding
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made