Sandwell Webwell - Community Cafes

Community Cafes

The cafés are linked to a multifaceted approach to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents of Sandwell.

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YMCA Café - YMCA Healty Living Centre 38 Carters Green, West Bromwich, B70 9LG Monday: 8.30 - 3.00 Tuesday: 8.30 - 3.00 Wednesday: 8.30 - 3.00 Thursday: 8.30 - 3.00 Friday: 8.30 - 3.00


Take Five Café - Dorothy Parkes Centre Church Road, Smethwick, B67 6EH Monday: 9.00 - 3.00 Tuesday: 9.00 - 3.00 Wednesday: 9.00 - 3.00 Thursday: 9.00 - 3.00 Friday: 9.00 - 3 .00 Sat/Sun: N/A


The Sanctuary - St James Church Lion Farm Estate, Shelsley Avenue, B69 1BG Friday: 9.30 - 2.30


Food Garden Café - Neptune Café Murray Hall Community Trust, Neptune Health Park, Sedgley Road West, Tipton, DY4 8LU Monday: 9.00 - 3.00 Tuesday: 9.00 - 3.00 Wednesday: 9.00 - 3.00 Thursday: 9.00 - 3.00 Friday: 9.00 - 3.00 Sat/Sun: N/A


Oak Green Café - Options for Life Oak Green Lodge, Oak Green Way, Oldbury, B68 8LR Monday: 8.00 - 3.00 Tuesday: 8.00 - 3.00 Wednesday: 8.00 - 3.00 Thursday: 8.00 - 3.00 Friday: 8.00 - 3.00 Saturday/Sunday: N/A

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Purpose

To create an awareness of healthy eating and provide cheap healthy meals in a pleasant environment. To create more social interaction within the communities and increase social support for people who are isolated by providing opportunities to meet and eat together. Cafes also provide healthy living information to local community groups

Developing a Standard Menu

To ensure menus are in line with healthy eating guidelines we are working with catering consultants to develop a standard menu which will be rolled out to other catering establishments in the future.

Food interest groups

All cafes run food tasting and food interest groups to find out what their customers want . Nearly 400 people tasted samples from the Standard menu at the Sandwell community show in August 2009. There was a positive response for the food and many registered for the Eatwell activities

Mystery Shopping

Working with Time 2 Trade our local Time bank to recruit mystery shoppers to assess quality of food, healthy options service and cafe environment provided in the cafes. Are you interested in joining the Time Bank or becoming a mystery shopper?

National Community Cafe Network

To keep in touch with other community cafes nationally a café steering group has been set up. We share ideas and experiences from Sandwell’s community cafes and bring back new learning e.g business planning, job descriptions.

Training

Cafe staff are being trained to facilitate Eatwell activities, for example Slimwell and Cookwell and are working with a catering consultant to develop their standard menu. This provides an opportunity for training e.g community food advisor training

Eatwell activities

Each cafe is setting up Eatwell activities that suit their community and cafes needs.

e.g Slimwell & Cookwell

Café worker -community cafes (5 CAFES in Sandwell)

SANDWELL FOOD POLICY TEAM

The cafes are looking for volunteers to spare a few hours a week to help in the kitchen, café and various projects that may be held in the café e.g cooking clubs, slimming clubs, food tasting sessions and community events
The aim of the café is to promote and provide freshly prepared hot and cold meals snacks and drinks that show, how healthy food can be tasty too.

The cafes also encourage healthy eating by offering dishes from the menu, which people may never have tried. The recipes for the dishes are available to customers to take away and try themselves.,
Projects in the café may include

1) Help with practical food preparation, cooking and food tasting sessions. (food hygiene certificate can be funded)

2) Help with promotion of the café menu, recipes activities( community food advisor training can be provided to enable you to deliver Eatwell activities for the café

3) Supporting the café to promote its menu/ services at local community events

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