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Weavers Kids Cafe and Community Pizzeria

Funded on Spacehive 8 August 2016

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Weavers Kids Cafe and Community Pizzeria

Errol  Wynter By Errol Wynter

Our not-for-profit cafe will teach kids to cook and sell affordable healthier meals, with costs funded by our Community Pizzeria, which will also help sustain Weavers Adventure Playground.

Tower Hamlets Delivery stage

259
backers
£24,617
raised
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This project was funded on 08 Aug 2016!

Weavers Adventure Playground has been running for over 40 years, and is all about alternative methods of learning, engaging young people (and their families) in cross age group active play, fire building, cooking, creativity, and self-governed peer learning.

We’d like to take this a step further and set up cooking sessions for kids and their families that then generate affordable healthier meals for all those who attend Weavers. This will eventually lead to kids’ establishing their own menus and budgets every Saturday, and being supported to become cooking entrepreneurs for their community through Weavers Kids’ Cafe.

In partnership with this, we’d like to build an outdoor pizza oven and covered area opening out onto Weavers Fields, teaching (and employing) parents and local people to cook and sell pizza to the wider community. All profits from this will go towards the Kids' Café costs and making Weavers Adventure Playground far more self-sustaining for many years to come.

What we'll deliver:

  • Buy cooking equipment, fold up tables, benches, etc. for Kids' Cafe and Pizzeria
  • Initially set up 2 weekly cook and sell sessions for Weavers Kids' Cafe
  • Build an outdoor Pizza Oven and kitchen surfaces, selling counter, etc.
  • Build covered outdoor eating area with seating, and planting beds for herbs/salads
  • Make new entrance for Community Pizzeria onto Weavers Fields, with signage
  • Publicise and set up training sessions for Community Pizza Chefs and Volunteers
  • Employ 2-4 Part-Time Pizza Chefs and a set of Community Volunteers
  • Publicise Weavers Kids' Cafe and Community Pizzeria to local schools, and the wider community
  • Run monthly 'Make you own Pizza' Sessions
  • Print pizza takeaway boxes with info showing other ways you can support Weavers Adventure Playground

Why it's a great idea:

Tower Hamlets has the fifth highest level of child obesity in the country, with 25% of 10-11 year olds classified as obese.

Bethnal Green has the highest national rate of child poverty (49%).
We need grassroots ways of tackling this by providing spaces where affordable healthier food and exercise is readily available for all.
What we plan to do is even more ambitious, we want to empower young people and families to learn to provide healthier alternatives for their whole community, not just themselves. We will set this up in a space which already provides supervised after school care for local young people.
In turn, with the Pizzeria, we will also establish a model where Weavers Adventure Playground is no longer at the mercy of ever increasing cuts to Public Funding.
For a relatively small outlay, a community will support each other to eat healthier, whilst helping an already established and much needed active play space to become more self-sufficient and to therefore flourish.

Steps to get it done:

  • Collaborate with Adventure Playground Engineers (APES) to design our outdoor pizza oven, kitchen, and seating area
  • Talk with the Tower Hamlets Council with regards to opening up an entrance to Weavers Fields
  • Brand Project, Publicise Cooking Sessions, and callout for Part time Pizza Chefs/Volunteers and Build Volunteers
  • Buy Cooking Equipment, etc for Cooking Sessions
  • Build Outdoor Pizzeria (with additional volunteers) and start publicising opening weekend
  • Employ David Latto (Latto's Pizzas) to train up Pizza Chefs and Volunteers
  • Start running twice weekly Cooking sessions, selling affordable meals to those who attend Weavers
  • Employ 2-4 Partime Pizza Chefs and set up rota for Community Pizza Volunteer Assistants
  • Grand opening of Weavers Kid's Cafe and Community Pizzeria
  • Pizzeria initially open Weekends (Profits paying for Sunday staffing of Adventure Playground)
  • Start match fundraising bids for renovating our Community Hall

As much as we'd love you to donate... We'd also love for you to come and be a part of our space... So, everyone who pledges is welcome to share a free slice of pizza at our opening event.

For a £10 donation...We'll happily provide a free whole pizza (to the first 20 pledgers)

For a £25 donation... We'll invite you to our Kids' Cafe Community Feast (For first 50 pledgers)

For £100 donation... You'll become one of our founding Pizza Patrons, and we'll name you on our Pizza Boxes

For £250...You and up to 10 friends/family will get your own Pizza Making-Cook and Eat Session (For first 5 pledgers)

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Location Tower Hamlets

About the space

Council

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

How will the money be spent?Total £25,216

Design and Build of Covered Outdoor Pizzeria with additional seating - £12,500 (50%)
1 Paid Staff (+2 Volunteers) Costs for 6 months of Weekends (at London Living Wage of £9.40) - £3,900 (15%)
1 Paid Staff (+ 2 Volunteers) for 6 months of twice weekly cooking sessions (@£50 per session) - £2,600 (10%)
Buy Kitchen Equipment for Cooking Sessions - £1,500 (6%)
Ingredients costs for Training Sessions and first 2 months of Trading - £1,250 (5%)
10 Training Sessions by David Latto (Latto's Pizza) for Pizza Chefs and Volunteers - £1,000 (4%)
Branding and Publicity Costs, including Signage - £750 (3%)
Additional Cooking Equipment - £500 (2%)
Food Hygiene Training for up to 20 people - £500 (2%)
Other - £716 (3%)

Costs Breakdown

This shows how money raised for the project will be spent. These costs have been confirmed by the project's Delivery Manager and verified.

50%
Design and Build of Covered Outdoor Pizzeria with additional seating
£12,500
15%
1 Paid Staff (+2 Volunteers) Costs for 6 months of Weekends (at London Living Wage of £9.40)
£3,900
10%
1 Paid Staff (+ 2 Volunteers) for 6 months of twice weekly cooking sessions (@£50 per session)
£2,600
6%
Buy Kitchen Equipment for Cooking Sessions
£1,500
5%
Ingredients costs for Training Sessions and first 2 months of Trading
£1,250
4%
10 Training Sessions by David Latto (Latto's Pizza) for Pizza Chefs and Volunteers
£1,000
3%
Branding and Publicity Costs, including Signage
£750
2%
Additional Cooking Equipment
£500
2%
Food Hygiene Training for up to 20 people
£500
3%
Other Read More
£716
  • Spacehive fees
    £550
  • VAT
    £110
  • Transaction Fees
    £56

Total £25,216

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