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Community garden open from May 3rd

Monday: 9am - 4pm
Tuesday: 9am - 4pm
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: Closed
Friday: 9am - 4pm
Saturday: 9am - 4pm
Sunday: Closed

Walk-ins and booking available: e-mail talk@theumbrellacafe.co.uk to book a garden table

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The Umbrella Cafe CIC.
Find us inside Whitstable Umbrella Centre!
Enter via the yellow side doors.
Oxford Street, Whitstable Kent CT5 1DD - find us.

Phone: 07518 065801

Welcome to The Umbrella Café CIC, Whitstable

Our community cafe, social kitchen and project spaces all exist for the same purpose; to reduce social isolation, food poverty and food waste in our local area. We run not for profit and are accountable to our community. Four days a week we throw open our doors to welcome all in for lunches, home-made cakes and drinks. We have a gorgeous community garden, a cosy Cafe space and both are fully accessible. We welcome friendly dogs on leads. Behind the scenes we are funded to help us deliver our social impact by The National Lottery and Kent Community Foundation. We’re looking forward to seeing you soon. Come and grab a coffee and see what we have to offer.

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May 7

Come get yer @this_girl_can_bake Friday treat 👉

We are open 9 to 4 and these geeeeorgeous long boys are filled ready for yous.

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May 6

A fresh delivery of local meat from @jimsbutchers for the Social Pantry today. Thank you Jim's!

Thanks also of course for the generous donations from their customers.

Jim's Butchers is one of three current Pay It Forwards in town. Customers shopping in Jim's, @stainesfarmshop or @vitastoreswhitstable can put an additional donation onto their order. This is added up by the stores and we can use this amount to order in stock for the Pantry shop.

This in turn provides more varied and abundant choice for our members in our social supermarket shop. Members pay £4 for 20 items and are empowered to make their own sustainable shopping choices weekly.

The Social Pantry is a joint project with support from @whitstableumbrellacentre and we are really grateful for local business support. Thank you for the pay it forward donations all 💛

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May 5

talk@theumbrellacafe.co.uk FAO Charlotte and feel free to send any questions our way. We will ask you to come in for a further chat and take it from there 🙂 <br> <br> .<br> .<br> .<br> .<br> <br> #volunteers #volunteerledproject #fundedproject #socialproject #socialshop #charitableprojects #whitstable #theumbrellacafe #communitycentre #communityhub #surplusproduce #surplus" data-video="" data-carousel="{"data":[{"type":"image","media":"https:\/\/scontent.cdninstagram.com\/v\/t51.29350-15\/181553693_885334858690109_8849591324398097008_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=aYfPSQaWL6sAX-G1s1J&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=5514d1fed37715b18d3ebe1a343d1aec&oe=60BCA237"},{"type":"image","media":"https:\/\/scontent.cdninstagram.com\/v\/t51.29350-15\/182856253_471727050747933_5694283964981740505_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=002Xyv4AVh8AX9axtfG&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=82c66dfe5e67e892ba11cdae9088e6d4&oe=60BA4D9D"}],"vid_first":false}" data-id="sbi_17918840989634506" data-user="theumbrellacafe" data-url="https://www.instagram.com/p/COfAK3Tlo1s/" data-avatar="https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t51.2885-15/123384972_694349577889156_7994454404900507961_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=2&_nc_sid=86c713&_nc_ohc=ePVNWlytUscAX8oSd6K&_nc_ht=scontent.xx&oh=62a6935b80f95cb3010840866a3fcfdb&oe=5FE3AB63" data-account-type="business"> Open

On the search; for a few friendly volunteers 👇

Everything is opening up safely; which is really positive. People who have been isolated can now be encouraged and supported to access community activities once again.

As well as opening up the Cafe to the public at the start and end of the week, we are also opening up our mid-week projects to more members.

The Social Pantry shop will open on both Wednesdays and Thursdays later this month. Thursdays will remain an appointment only day for the moment and Wednesdays will be a drop in day.

We are looking for the following volunteers for our drop in Wednesday project :

- someone who would like to make teas & coffees and chat to members and volunteers in the Cafe (using an urn and filter coffee - nothing complicated 🙂 )

- a couple of volunteers to support members with their shopping in the Pantry

- a volunteer who is confident with cooking for simple family friendly meals.

We are able to provide safeguarding training, DBS checks and any further relevant training.

If you're interested please email <a href=

talk@theumbrellacafe.co.uk FAO Charlotte and feel free to send any questions our way. We will ask you to come in for a further chat and take it from there 🙂 . . . . #volunteers #volunteerledproject #fundedproject #socialproject #socialshop #charitableprojects #whitstable #theumbrellacafe #communitycentre #communityhub #surplusproduce #surplus">

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May 4

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May 3

We did it. The first full service in over a year (59 weeks to be exact). We were slow and we will be ironing out creases all week. But my is it glorious to welcome old friends back into the garden again.

No other way to end this rather monumentous day than with a takeaway 2 pinter from our down the road neighbours @thetwelvetaps of course.

Thank you so much everyone for today, the support was immense and we are so glad to be back 🙌

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May 3

Come on in, from 9 this morning 👉

☀️ tables are made of up to 6 in the garden and we will have the gazebos up. There's sunny or shady spots to sit.

☀️ come in via the double yellow doors on the side via Whitstable Umbrella Community Centre to check in and then through the cafe to the garden. We will give you all the ordering info at the desk.

☀️ if all the tables are taken outside you are still welcome to order a takeaway. Everything on our menu is suitable for takeaway and delicious eaten on the beach.

☀️ our entire menu is pay what you can and the prices are guides, not fixed. If you can pay a little more your donation will support another person to access us; if you are paying less or none we can do this very discretly.

See you soon folks 💛

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May 1

It turns out, if you haven't really opened to the public for the past year, a bit of friendly practice comes in handy.

Today we invited our nearest and dearest to come and be our guinea pigs for the day. We welcomed in our neighbours Hive Co-Working members, our families of course and Whitstable Umbrella Community Centre trustees and Centre manager David.

The sun shone and we served coffee again 🙌 it was wonderful. We are so grateful to everyone for coming. We ironed our a couple of clangers, but there's no guarantee we won't continue to make minor stuff ups in the coming weeks. Please go gently on us whilst we reconfigure ourselves again. But it's so good to be back 💛.

See you Monday!

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May 1

She's done it again. If you're in need of some words written beautifully, @zowords is the one to call.

Hello gorgeous new board ! Spot the new item.

Open Monday 3rd... two days to go 🙌

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Apr 30

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Apr 29

Yesterday we said goodbye to this absolute beauty of a person and member of our staff team.

We are opening next week and we are really excited of course but this moment deserves recognition 💛

@groves6121 has been with us for five years. Saying goodbye to a staff member who is part of the fabric of who we are are and what we do is bloody hard but we are so pleased for Andrea and her new beginnings.

It's not goodbye forever; Andrea plans to be back volunteering with us after a Summer off 🙌

We saw her off with a huge box of freddos and some champers on the beach of course 🍾

Have a wonderful Summer and we'll see you soon!

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Apr 29

The incredible & much needed Community Clothes Bank has just launched a crowdfund to become a more sustainable fixture within our community.

In the short time they've been operating their stats & values show it all :.

- they've developed collaborative partnerships with other community organisations.

- they've worked tirelessly to develop a secure framework to support all sorts of different ages of people with clean clothing.

- they've got a clear mission: they want to stop clothing waste in our town, create a circular economy and work with professional agencies and self referrals to provide clothing to those in need.

How can you help?

Follow this link and have a read. Consider donating to their crowdfunder or if you're unable to please share with friends and family 💛 👇

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/magdalen-deakins-1

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Apr 28

The Cafe & Centre work in partnership to ensure that we think about food waste everyday.

We value partners such @fareshareuk & @nbrly who redistribute food waste for charitable & community projects. Without their help unimaginable amounts of supermarket food would go to waste. We also really appreciate other local supermarkets such as @coopuk & @sainsburys who run their own food share schemes. More locally @stainesfarmshop redistribute surplus to us and have continued to do so throughout the pandemic.

In turn the surplus helps us to engage & empower members of our community with food provision support and more. Food is a wonderful community engagement tool and even better if we can use good quality surplus that would otherwise have been earmarked for landfill 💛

We also love cooking with surplus in the Cafe. Our hot lunch special is often made with surplus produce and anything else we turn into jams, chutneys, sauces and more. I for one am very excited for a huge dollop of banana ketchup with my cheese on toast next week 🙌

For ideas on how you can cook with surplus produce follow #lovefoodhatewaste 👉

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Apr 27

talk@theumbrellacafe.co.uk: subject line BOOKING, with the date you want, a named lead person, total number of persons and a contact number. These can both be booked in one hour slots ie 10am - 11am or 10am to 12pm. <br> <br> The remaining tables are all available for walk ins - our one way system is back so please enter via the double yellow doors and we will show you through to the garden.<br> <br> See you Monday 3rd folks - keep your everything crossed for sunshine 🤞☀️<br> <br> .<br> .<br> .<br> .<br> <br> #countdowntoopen #hospitality #communitygarden #gardenspace #whitstable #towngarden #bookus #bookatable #whitstablecafe #paywhatyoucanmenu #communitycafe #buysocial #buylocal #buywhitstable #shopbythesea" data-video="" data-carousel="" data-id="sbi_17924477359586695" data-user="theumbrellacafe" data-url="https://www.instagram.com/p/COKd8MGFCSU/" data-avatar="https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t51.2885-15/123384972_694349577889156_7994454404900507961_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=2&_nc_sid=86c713&_nc_ohc=ePVNWlytUscAX8oSd6K&_nc_ht=scontent.xx&oh=62a6935b80f95cb3010840866a3fcfdb&oe=5FE3AB63" data-account-type="business"> Open

We are immensely lucky to share a gorgeous community garden with the Centre.

With lots of space available, we have sunny tables, shady tables, tables for 2 to 6 and corner benches to relax in. What a choice 🙌

We have two four person tables (we are able to make these into one big table for groups of 6) available to book. To book one of these tables please email <a href=

talk@theumbrellacafe.co.uk: subject line BOOKING, with the date you want, a named lead person, total number of persons and a contact number. These can both be booked in one hour slots ie 10am - 11am or 10am to 12pm. The remaining tables are all available for walk ins - our one way system is back so please enter via the double yellow doors and we will show you through to the garden. See you Monday 3rd folks - keep your everything crossed for sunshine 🤞☀️ . . . . #countdowntoopen #hospitality #communitygarden #gardenspace #whitstable #towngarden #bookus #bookatable #whitstablecafe #paywhatyoucanmenu #communitycafe #buysocial #buylocal #buywhitstable #shopbythesea">

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Apr 26

Are we excited?

Yes we are excited 🙌

It's been joyous watching the outpour of support for Whitstable's businesses over the last couple of weeks.

It is our turn exactly one week today. That garden will be open, the coffee machine is back and the cakes will be baked.

This week is all about cleaning, painting & tidying after a further 6 months of being closed whilst delivering project work and an online service.

We'll be updating our social all week, dip in for posts on what's new and how the Cafe is looking 👀

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Apr 24

It's another super Saturday for Staines Farm Shop, with our favourite display in Whitstable 💛🥝🫐🍓

As well as supplying our kitchen with fruit & vegetables, Staines also support us with surplus produce, and more recently have started a Pay It Forward for the Social Pantry shop. We've been bowled over by the support so far, thank you so much to Staines and your wonderful customers.

The idea behind other businesses starting pay it forwards in partnership with us, is that as town we can come together to support and empower.

By adding a small amount onto a Staines', Jim's Family Butchers or Vita Stores bill, customers are helping us to purchase fresh & sustainable stock from local suppliers. By accessing the Social Pantry shop our members are empowered to choose & pay for their shopping; not only accessing more and better quality food but also engaging with Whitstable Umbrella Community Centre. In turn, the Centre and Cafe are (when we open!) full of workshops, drop in support, events and general community activities.

By listening to our members and measuring outcomes of our projects we can ascertain what is needed and if we are providing the correct support. Our impact goal is to decrease food insecurity and social isolation in Whitstable and we really could not work towards it without support such as this. Thank you 💛

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Apr 23

Big belated thank you to @vcjoneswhitstable and their wonderful customers for helping us to offer our Social Pantry members 100 fish & chip meals over the Easter holidays.

VC Jones' support means we are able to offer families additional meals during school holidays and fish & chips always feels like such a treat.

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Apr 22

Carrots galore this week 🥕🥕🥕

We had tonnes of surplus carrots from @faresharekent so all Pantry members today were offered a carrot themed recipe newsletter with four ideas to creatively use them at home.

With funding help from Kent Community Foundation we have been able to put together some recipe kit bags. Today members took home kits for a carrot cake smoothie and cheesy carrot flapjacks.

We are really looking forward to hearing how our members enjoyed the recipes next week 😀

Our Social Pantry shop is currently open one day a week ran by our team of dedicated volunteers who support our members with food provision and support. Members pay £4 each week for 20 items and just like a general store there is a huge variety of produce available for them to choose from; meat, dairy, fresh fruit & veggies, ambient goods and treats. It is a funded project in collaboration with @whitstableumbrellacentre

Our produce is mostly supermarket surplus from @faresharekent & @nbrly but is also supported by @foodari_ and pay it forwards in partnership with @jimsbutchers & @stainesfarmshop 💛

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Apr 20

Cake boxes - it's the last week!

We will be back online when we open but you'll be able to enjoy our cake in our garden, or takeaway as normal by then 🙌

In the meantime mix n match cake boxes are a whopping 50% off this week. That's a huge box of our homemade cake for 4 people to enjoy for just £5 👇

https://yourlocal.delivery/the-umbrella-cafe/

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Apr 20

Our Melon Pan isn't just for the kids. How cute are these?!

Bake Boxes are back 🙌

Sign up during April at our special subscription price and you'll receive an email to collect the following three kits on the last Friday of the month:

April (note early collection 23rd) : Melon Pan buns 🐻

May : chocolate éclairs 🍫

June : no churn strawberry ice-cream & shortbread 🍓

Each kit contains everything you need to recreate the bake at home, with step by step instructions and a bonus bake along video.

*each kit can also be bought separately each month*

https://yourlocal.delivery/the-umbrella-cafe/

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Apr 19

We've got our own Star Baker here; she goes by the name of @this_girl_can_bake 🙌

Charlotte is ready to take you through all the steps of making a whole batch of super cute but super simple melon pan buns with our BakeBox kits.

Melon pan are a Japanese enriched bun. A thin layer of crisp cookie dough traditionally covers the top, giving it a cracked and melon like appearance.

For our April baking kit, the biscuit element instead transforms the simple bun shape into a bear, bunny, monkey or whatever animal you would like to create.

Check out on our website shop AAAND you'll find details of the Spring Bake Box subscription which has landed.

Purchase all three now and you'll save yourself dosh and time. They'll be ready for you to collect at the end of each month. Each kit is also always available to purchase as a single in limited numbers each month.

https://yourlocal.delivery/the-umbrella-cafe/

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