Firs Farm Inclusive Community Cafe

Some exciting news. This project was at a stalemate with the council and now it has been agreed that we are building this ourselves! We do however need to raise further funds, as due to Brexit and Covid buildings costs have gone up. We are now in a position to start building with professional help of course. We have the council’s full permission for this. We are working through the heads of terms for the lease of the land with the council and our legal representatives. It has been agreed that the lease will now run for a period of 7 years minus one day by which time we hope to have the permanent solution to this much needed community space. We have just gone through a tender process and selected our Hub Operators to run the space and we are in the process of selecting from the many tenders our preferred building contractor. We aim to have the hub on site ready to use by the end of December 2022. But we are currently raising further funding to support this. It may mean that we don’t have the green walls and cladding and some of the fittings internally but we will get there in 2022. Watch this space 

Such great NEWS... 89% pledged to far - not far to go. To celebrate we will plan to get together this Saturday morning with volunteers and families. So don your warm outdoor clothes and get outside with the Friends thi Saturday from 10am unitl 12 noon to plant spring bulbs followed by a warming cup of your favourite brew or a mulled wine and a mince pie. Why not pop along to Firs Farm and take part even if its only to encourage us to keep digging we would love to see you :) Thank you all for your pledges - Keep 'em coming .... only 11% to go..

GREAT news! We have been granted a stay of execution. But its not for long, so we must all get out there and encourage more people to get on board on our crowdfunding on spacehive for this much needed fantastic project. YOU cn help today by sending the link to 3 people you know asking them to pledge £2 then aske them to send it to three more and so on and so on unitl we reach the target. Together WE CAN do it. Thank you

To make our community cafe even more inclusive and accessible, we want to install a Changing Places Toilet. This will be a bonus feature, added on top of our crowdfunding campaign. We are hoping that the Aviva Community Fund will allow us to install the Changing Places Toilet, but in order to receive this funding, WE NEED YOUR VOTES! Follow this link and submit your vote for Firs Firm Inclusive Community Hub: community-fund.aviva.co.uk/voting/project/view/17-3020

DONT MISS THIS FUN EVENT ...... BRING A TORCH WITH YOU ..ITS VERY DARK IN THE WOODS AND SPOOOOOOKY ...