Café Wednesday
Café Wednesday World Food Feast
Let us take you on a delicious journey around the world!
DATE: The 1st Wednesday of every Month
TIME: 12- 1pm
PRICE: £5 for Main Course and Dessert (vegetarian, meat & Halal options)
Make a date to eat with us on Wednesday the.....
5th October
2nd November
7th December
For more information e-mail cafewednesdaycatering@yahoo.co.uk or phone 01422 342719
Exciting News: Café Wednesday Catering Price List Now Available. Listed Below:
Fiingerfood Buffet - £5.00 (per head)
Soup & sandwich Buffet - £5.00 (per head)
Sandwich Buffet - £3.50 (per head)
Hot Food Feast - £5.00 (per head)
Tea and Coffee can be served
Eco- friendly, biodegradbale plates and cutlery can be provided for an additional charge of 50p per head.
Let us know if you would like to add any additional items to your Menu and we can calculate the cost for you.
To book or for more info call 01422 342719 or email cafewednesdaycatering@yahoo.co.uk
What Is Café Wednesday?
Café Wednesday started as a cookery and English class in 2005 teaching people catering skills, developing their spoken and written English and looking at serving healthy meals to the community.
Over the last four years, the café has catered for many community and private events inlcuding- Voluntary Action Calderdale, Calderdale College, Street Angels and the Upper Valley Stroke Club. It has more recently catered for a Business in the Community Leadership hosted by the Marshalls.
Café Wednesday members and Marshalls PLC Executive, Graham Holden & Neil Davidson Group CSR Manager, who came to say a 'Thank You' for the food they provided at the Leadership Meeting.
Over the next three years, café plans to develop itself as a social enteprise providing healthy, affordable catering for local individuals, groups and organisations, including projects at the St. Augustine's Centre like the social lunch and children's activities.
To build on its present success, Café Wednesday will extend and include the outdoor space to add gardening to its current activities and develop a new initiative based on a 'garden to plate' project where food is grown on site and around local authority area on allotments. We will work with local growers an convert our local garden to a growing space. Even though set within a rural area, this area of Halifax is woefully short of fresh food grown locally and cheaply. We know we can change this by growing large quantities- starting small and growing with our market and experience- of fruit and vegetables. The local growers can donate or exchange their produce, in small or large quantities. This is a differentto a farmers marker in that we will not be a forum for large scale production. Rather we will encourage family growers to sell/exchange their excess in as small quantities as necessary (by the single apple if appropriate!). We will then sell in a market-like situation to the local community or use it in our social enterprise café and catering project.
We believe that the Café Wednesday Food Project is a good example of sustainable innovative practice at a grass roots level that could make a real change in people's attitudes and enjoyment of food.
We intend to start small and grow with our experience and market, always listening to the participants and the local community to improve and adapt. We are all passionate about food- both eating it and the need to grow it and we believe that this could be an example of a project that could prove to have a lasting impact on the lives of those involved.