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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.

Google Map of The Umbrella Cafe, Whitstable

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Jul 28

Heading out this weekend? Got friends visiting? Planning a day at the beach? 🌊

Let us give you one less job to do with our picnic baskets. They taste good and do good every time you buy one 👉

Head to our online shop and choose your size - for one, two or four. Add on a kid's picnic and you're sorted. We also do whole tarts and traybake cakes; perfect for entertaining.

Order by 8pm this evening to collect from us, either Friday or Saturday this weekend.

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

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Jul 27

Whitstable Cares is here for the Summer as a user friendly and accessible information service. Available to anyone who needs support with food, clothing or finance advice over the school holidays.

Posters have been distributed throughout Whitstable and all schools have the information available, and sent this out to parents before term ended.

This mini project is the product of a year of good collaborative working between Whitstable based support and referral services, plus local authority Councillor support.

It's hard to stress enough how valuable this is and also how unusual this set up can be if you compare to other areas across the UK. We are really lucky in our area that the willingness to work together is so high and that local Councillors actively want to get involved and help facilitate grassroots projects.

Collaborative working increases service support and connectivity and lessens the potential for service duplication. Love where you work ✌

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Jul 26

Hospitality is a little bit tough at the moment. We can't thank our amazing team and you lot for the continued support enough.

We're also thinking of others who aren't even able to ride it out at the moment. Lots of lovely local or businesses we love are closed at the moment due to self isolation.

Here's some vegan bakewell to brighten up Monday and here's to keep on keeping eating cake ✌ 💛

Open 9 - 4 today and tomorrow at @whitstableumbrellacentre

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Jul 25

We hope you're enjoying our fresh menu feels on Fridays and Saturdays.

The picnic box and in house menus are mirroring one another over the Summer weekends. What you'll find in the Cafe, you'll also see on our online shop.

Whether you fancy a big dose of vibrant salads & homemade tarts in our garden with friends or in your garden with friends, we're on it 🙌

Picnic boxes are now ready for ordering to collect from us Friday 30th or Saturday 31st. Including one of our favourite salads, fennel & orange. Plus an array of our waste not pickles. Full details and order here 👉

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

See you back tomorrow 9am for some hopeful sunshine, lots of @garageroasted coffee and homemade cakes.

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Jul 23

Would you like to join our crew?

We have an opening for a front of house team member to join us from September.

Details are :

☕ 15 hours / week minimum

☕ Fixed hours will be Tuesday & Friday

☕ Does include a couple of weekend shifts and events.

☕ Previous hospitality and specifically barista experience is essential for this role

☕ Our cafe is very busy so we are looking for someone calm, organised and friendly for this position. You'll be supporting junior team members, supervising volunteers occasionally and liaising with kitchen as well as communicating with customers and Centre users.

☕ Please apply over the next week or so either via Indeed or send us an email but please include a cover letter and a CV

☕ We're a small team, extremely friendly and our organisation is all about people and inclusion so we are looking for the right fit.

Please share with your friends 👉 thank you all!

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Jul 23

A classic made vegan; coffee & walnut on the counter this morning 👉

We do cake with community bite in our gaff. Buy cake and make yourself feel good.

We're a social enterprise and reinvest our profits back into collaborative community projects that benefit our local area.

Open 9 - 4 today & tomorrow in @whitstableumbrellacentre

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Jul 21

Really chuffed to announce that with the support of Whitstable Umbrella Community Centre we will be able to facilitate a pilot plus four further sessions of family based cookery classes over the next year.

We were so pleased to find out we had been successful with the Reconnect Fund last week, thank you Kent County Council.

We are starting with a small pilot over the Summer with our Social Pantry families. If you attend the Pantry, have children, haven't received a message from us this week and would like to attend a cookery class in August please let us know as we would love you to take part.

After the Summer, we will re-evaluate and take it from there. Let's get cooking!

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Jul 20

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Jul 20

You've less than half a month a grab a peek at July's very special art wall exhibition.

Over the month we've been honoured to hang the work of four students practising with @sandra_art4all

Sandra works with talented adults and young people with SEN conditions to bring out the best in their art works. We've got a gorgeous array adorning our walls with a mixture of landscapes, seascapes and abstract.

It was a pleasure to show around some of the students yesterday; thanks for stopping by for cake!

All pieces are available to purchase. We don't take any commission but ask hanging artists to pass us or the Centre a donation of their choice from any work sold.

We hope you enjoy our art wall shows. We're back open today 9 - 4 serving all the coffee and stuff 🙌

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Jul 18

Click and eat cake, or quiche, or a whole picnic 🙌

Our online shop is awash with Summery goods, including our picnic boxes for 1, 2 or 4, kids' picnic lunches, whole tarts and cakes. As a social enterprise, you're helping us do good with every purchase ✌

Lots on there to make entertaining visiting friends or family a breeze next weekend or pick up something for yourself to take to the beach.

If you're looking for a simple but gorgeously finished celebration cake we can also help you out.

Have a look see here 👉 https://yourlocal.delivery/the-umbrella-cafe/

** for all orders other than celebration cakes please pop them into us by end of play Wednesday and you can collect from us anytime Friday or Saturday **

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Jul 18

Carrying on much as we were, but everyone gets fed, watered and has fun, as do we so...

We will keep it all under review of course.

See you back at it Monday from 9 ✌

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Jul 17

What's this about then...👉

It's a holiday special pay it forward with the wonderful Helen of Toys N Trends 🙌

Helen is able to accept donations over the next couple of weeks at the till and when our target is reached the shop will gift us beach toys, balls and skipping ropes. The toys will be available for our Pantry members and their children to both enjoy at the Centre whilst visiting the shop and to take home over the holidays.

As a locally rooted toy shop, Helen wants her toys accessible to a wider audience and as a parent knows how expensive the school holidays can be.

This is a wonderful holiday addition for the project because it is not only a tool which helps families and children to engage; they are also items which we know are off limits to some households because of cost.

Thank you Toys N Trends for recognising that and for putting in place a pay it forward. It is a simple gesture that has a huge amount of value behind it and we really appreciate the collaboration.

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Jul 16

Rolling like a vegan black forest gateau 9 - 4 today ✌

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Jul 14

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Jul 13

Friday forecast - check ☀️

Umbrella picnic boxes - check 🍎

Discount code - check 🙌

Got your blankets at the ready?

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

Our order book is open until Wednesday evening and picnic box collections are from us on Friday during opening hours. Picnic produce can be eaten anytime over the weekend Friday to Sunday.

Disclaimer : our picnic boxes can be eaten anywhere. Inside, outside, on a sofa, in the garden upside down. Or even, the beach ✌✌✌

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Jul 12

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As we head towards a long Summer break, remember you can turn to Whitstable's Community Centre if you need any help, support or guidance.

The support we offer in partnership with @whitstableumbrellacentre is food based but also beneficial for anyone who feels they need help with social inclusion, a friendly chat or an enriching activity to partake in.

From mid June we restarted Wednesday drop ins at our Social Pantry. Wednesdays 2-4pm are perfect if you would like to self refer or dip in and out. There's no need to make an appointment. Just turn up if you would like to find out more and our friendly volunteers will show you around.

The Social Pantry is a bit like a shop - full of fresh, tinned, and dried produce with meat, veggies, fruit and dairy always available. With the help of our volunteers you can choose 20 items for £4. Stop for a coffee before or after in the Cafe or shop and go if in a rush.

We are really looking forward to families joining us over the Summer Holidays and will have additional healthy snacks, breakfast items and some fun activities to help you feel welcome and increase the choices available.

Our pay what you can menu in the Cafe is available Monday, Tuesday, Friday & Saturday and is great for bringing the kids for a treat or having a family meal out. There's no need to pay full price or anything at all. We're very happy for you to walk out without paying if that makes you feel more comfortable about accessing the menu and Cafe space.

For anymore information just send us an email (<a href=

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Jul 10

Whitstable picnics are on 👉

Check out our Umbrella Café picnic box special online. It's available every Friday to collect from us throughout the Summer Holidays (orders in by end of Wednesdays please).

July 16th through to September 🙌

Picnic boxes sadly do not contain sunshine, high tide clear blue seas or tranquil moments (those are down to you & a bit of luck) but we can bring to the party ...

💛 Umbrella made tarts (veggie / vegan)

💛 Our own salads & slaws

💛 In house pickles & ferments

💛 Homemade veggie scotch eggs

💛 Our bakes & brownies

💛 Biddenden apple juice

All tucked up in an easy to carry box. Grab from us on a Friday and where you take it is entirely up to you...

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

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Jul 9

Bit of an exciting one to end the week on... 🙌

We are thrilled to be recognised as a Top 25 Trailblazing Newcomer in this year's NatWest & Pioneers Post SE100 Index, listing the UK's most impressive social enterprises.

You can check out the full list of top 25 Trailblazers and the top 100 list of recognised Social Enterprises here :

https://immersives.pioneerspost.com/natwest-se100-2021-revealed/index.html

We are in good company, within the list you'll find the amazing @socentkent Enterprise Kent , @migratefuluk @luminarybakery, all social enterprises we admire greatly 💛

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Jul 9

Get a touch of the Summer evening fireside feels with @this_girl_can_bake s'more doughnuts this Friday.

Lemon curd on coveted B-side 👉

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Jul 8

Gorgeous shot of our fresh hibiscus tea.

If you're not all about the coffee or coming in for a mellow moment, we have a range of our own herbals plus a super loose-leaf line up from @chaiwallahmargate

Choose from...

🌺 Hibiscus

🍋 Lemon & ginger - all fresh ✌

🌱 Mint - from the garden or @stainesfarmshop

Back tomorrow when we'll have the @garageroasted pumping and the herbals flowing from 9 - 4 at @whitstableumbrellacentre

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