Free welcome cafe opens in Highworth to help community connect

A free cafe has been arrange in a city to assist forestall loneliness by encouraging individuals to attach with others.The month-to-month Heat and Welcome Wednesday Cafe in Highworth, Wiltshire, has been arrange by the volunteers behind Highworth Neighborhood Larder, which redistributes meals that might in any other case have been thrown away.The cafe is out there on the third Wednesday of the month on the Council Rooms on Gilberts Lane, providing firm and a free drink and cake between 09:30 – 11:00 BST. Highworth City Council is offering the room without cost.Alison Durrant, one of many volunteers concerned, defined that the cafe can be capable of provide assets and recommendation to assist with points akin to funds. The group larder was launched a number of years in the past when volunteers discovered there was loads of surplus produce from native allotments that could possibly be donated to these in want.The group signed as much as the nationwide networks for comparable tasks, such because the Neighborhood Fridge Community, and the native major college supplied house for the meals from allotments and native supermarkets.Ms Durrant stated they began with about 30 guests and now have near 100 each week.