{"id":15940,"date":"2025-11-01T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/shrewsbury-telford\/?p=15940"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:48:05","slug":"sunflower-brookside-community-cafe-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/shrewsbury-telford\/2025\/11\/01\/sunflower-brookside-community-cafe-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunflower Brookside Community Caf\u00e9 Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15940\" class=\"elementor elementor-15940\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d1e4ec1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d1e4ec1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10c182f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"10c182f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Madeley Wellbeing Community Caf\u00e9 has a new name and location: welcome to the Sunflower Brookside Community Caf\u00e9!<\/p>\n<p>Join the team for their grand opening on 3rd November at the Brookside Community Centre. This family-friendly venue is focused on community, serving up delicious, locally sourced food while actively tackling food waste.<\/p>\n<p>The community caf\u00e9 offers both preventative and responsive support to individuals, enabling them and their families to live well and safely in their community. Individuals are able to develop their independence skills and receive information, advice, and support about daily living.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The community caf\u00e9 provides:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A bespoke training and employability programme, providing people furthest away from the job market opportunity to enhance their skills, including young people with an additional need, adults with disabilities, unpaid family carers, people without a permanent address and those in need of support with their mental health and wellbeing.<\/li>\n<li>An environment to provide bespoke training programmes for cooking on a budget, cooking for independent living, carer cooking courses, dementia awareness, safeguarding, food hygiene and any others based upon local need. A safe environment to decrease social isolation.<\/li>\n<li>A safe environment to access free meals to those who need one<\/li>\n<li>Inter-generational work (opportunities for older and young people to mix)<\/li>\n<li>Children\u2019s birthday parties for low-income families.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br><\/p><p>We are also pleased to confirm that the after-school club and the autistic cookery course will both be resuming. Please note that the cookery course is only available to clients registered with the Telford Autism Hub and pre booking is essential.<\/p>\n<p>The caf\u00e9 is supported by local businesses and volunteers, collaborating together and delivered by Telford and Wrekin CVS and associated wellbeing partners.<\/p>\n<p>Telford and Wrekin CVS&#8217;s vision for the caf\u00e9 is for it to be sustainable moving forwards towards the future. The model of delivery is one where we want to empower communities to care for each other, to build community provisions across the borough and ensure people are well and healthy.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dc37b77 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"dc37b77\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c34685 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0c34685\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1087\" src=\"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/shrewsbury-telford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/10\/Cafe-menu-768x1087.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-15943\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/shrewsbury-telford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/10\/Cafe-menu-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/shrewsbury-telford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/10\/Cafe-menu-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/shrewsbury-telford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/10\/Cafe-menu-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/shrewsbury-telford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/10\/Cafe-menu.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Menu for the new caf\u00e9<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madeley Wellbeing Community Caf\u00e9 has a new name and location: welcome to the Sunflower Brookside Community Caf\u00e9! 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