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The Treehouse Community Cafe.
Holt, England, United Kingdom
Aim
We are creating a space for our community. Through a community café, community vegetable garden and by running skill based workshops.
Allow us to introduce ourselves...
We are Lorna and Rachel and we are The Treehouse, we are a community interest company looking to give something back to our community.
The building you can see behind us has been standing since 2008 and has served a great number of people as a phase 2 Children's Centre. Unfortunately it is unable to continue running in it's current format and The Treehouse will be taking over the lease to keep the building open to the community.
Why are we asking for your help?
We are currently having building works done internally ready for our exciting opening!! We would love to raise some funds to help with our startup costs to ensure we can welcome everyone with open arms.
We have big plans:
The Treehouse is becoming a community café. But there is more.
This café
- Will have it's own community vegetable garden.
- Will be operating a zero-waste shop.
- Will be running workshops under the theme of Nurtured by Nature.
- Will be running regular specialist cafes.
- Will be working with the local health team.
- Will house a Community Fridge.
- The list goes on.......
Why?
We are in an area with a 28% rate of of childhood poverty hidden within a wealth/poverty divide which we have seen the evidence of through the running of our early year’s music groups as Music for Families ; we have been fundraising to continue allowing free access to these after government funding cuts meant they were at threat of closure. It has become clear over time that the people within our community require more than we can offer in a one-hour session per week.
News article outlining the issues facing the children in our community.
Why a community fridge would be a valuable asset to our town.
We will be keeping the building open that has been at the heart of our community for the last 11 years. It has supported many families through good times and bad times and that is what we want to continue doing.
You can read more about us on our website The Treehouse
This is our story. This is our dream.
All funding raised via this platform will help us to provide our community with unique opportunities.
Community Business Crowdmatch has provided £240 of match funding
This project successfully funded on 13th November 2019