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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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Jun 19

Goooood morning. Going to restart the faces behind the social enterprise series as it's been a while...!

Nathan was part of our team way back. Back then he was teen KP and had been a stalwart kitchen team member for a couple of years. He took a little break to try his hand at plastering and then of course last year happened.

Earlier this year we were prepping to get our doors back open and gave Nathan a call to see if he wanted to rejoin our KP team. Now he's back. Not only KPing but also making a mean flat white and baking ✌

Come see us today 9 - 4. Nathan will be around as part of the Saturday team and so will his rather lovely looking courgette & pistachio cake. Thank you so much for the surplus courgettes @sportsmankent 🥒🥒🥒

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Jun 18

Whatcha say for a big dose of colour pop 🤍 ❤

On this Friday in June where the weather will not be spoken about, we have @this_girl_can_bake
doughnuts to shout about:

Eton mess as pictured or salted caramel long boys. Run through the rain and grab yourself one 9 - 4 today 👉👉

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Jun 16

The Umbrella Cafe is joining the Instagram peoni craze; ours are surplus 💗

This is what surplus looks like; beautifully arranged by @this_girl_can_bake today, to brighten up the Cafe and @whitstableumbrellacentre this week.

Tomorrow we are hosting the Social Pantry project with volunteers and also @foodfriendsuk members for a special get together in the garden. Back open Friday 9 - 4 ✌

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Jun 16

Today 👉👉

Revive your wardrobe with some help from the wonderful @communityclothesbank and her £1 pop up event.

10 - 3 today and a second event on July 9th in the main hall of @whitstableumbrellacentre

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Jun 14

It's time for our final Summer Bakebox 🍓

@this_girl_can_bake has timed this one nicely with the weather.

There's very little baking and oven turning on needed for this one : it's a gorgeous no churn strawberry & basil ice-cream with shortbread recipe.

Everyone on the subscription automatically receives this June Bakebox but as always we will have a limited number of stand alone kits to buy from our online store :

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

Pick up is the last Friday of June.

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Jun 14

More ice-cream sandwich wizardry from @this_girl_can_bake today 9 - 4 🙌

We've got... lemon meringue, s'more AND birthday cake flavours for ya.

All day at @whitstableumbrellacentre ☀️☀️☀️

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Jun 13

This is why we do it ✌

A joyous day where some parents sat back and chilled and some kids learnt some pretty good life skills. And had some fun of course.

Thank you so much to our brilliant upskillers @westbeachchallengers , @communityclothesbank, @vickybikes and @whitstableumbrellacentre Craig.

Big thanks to our two super volunteers Mary and Laura and of course CeeCee who we could not have done without today !

Thanks so much to everyone who came along for a go today. Lots of fun had and really positive feedback all round. We will definitely look to extend the pilot and run a series of Community Skills Days, starting this Autumn.

Thanks so much to wonderful @whitstableumbrellacentre for partnering with us✌

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Jun 12

Community Skills Day the pilot is coming atcha 👉

Tomorrow we and @whitstableumbrellacentre are hosting a new event - aimed at teaching children 8 - 11 a few fun and interesting life skills.

It's all about building community and having a little bit of fun along the way, it's how we roll 🙌

Tickets are still for sale and we have some available if you want to book a last minute ticket along for the ride :
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-skills-day-tickets-156536353447

One ticket buys you access to either the morning or afternoon session and all four upskillers. Each session includes learning how to rewire a plug with our very own caretaker Craig (pictured), how to upcycle clothing with @communityclothesbank, how to exercise safely with @westbeachchallengers and how to fix a puncture with @vickybikes

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Jun 12

Stop the sticky. Refreshing drinks here all day 👉

We're open 9 - 4 at @whitstableumbrellacentre with all the usuals plus some stonking good elderflower cordial made by Jane, served up with some @kingsdownwater sparkling.

Not going to leave out our @garageroasted ice latte with a healthy dose of caramel or our @chaiwallahmargate iced grapefruit cold-brew.

Oof stay cool #whitstable

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Jun 11

Picked up a deeelicious ice coffee from @whitproduce this morning to say thank you to Steve & Amanda for their half term support to the Social Pantry project.

As we embark on a post covid world (hopefully 🤞) the positive take-away for us has to be collaboration.

Collaboration, both in trust & confidence building with our beneficeries and members, and in wonderful partnership working with those around us who share our values and purpose.

It's been a super tough year for hospitality so it's appreciated even more so when another cafe in our small town offers to help raise money for our project work ✌

Produce Store raised £200 over the half-term, in donations & match funding. Some of which was spent on additional half term healthy snacks & breakfast provision and some of which will be ring-fenced towards our Summer holiday hunger provision.

Thank you 💛

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Jun 10

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Today in the Pantry we have egg based recipes. Members can take home kits & recipes for Turkish eggs, frittata and these tiffin eggs.

As well as cooking up a chutney storm yesterday to use up lots & lots of surplus carrots & bananas, Jan our volunteer cook also baked a batch of these veggie scotch eggs.

They are delicious; all hail the veggie scotch eggs made from grated carrots, nuts & breadcrumbs instead of mince 😋

The Social Pantry project at @whitstableumbrellacentre is now open two days a week. We've opened a drop in session Wednesdays 2 - 4pm with 6 lovely new volunteers. Thursday remains 10 - 3 and we ask members to book an appointment with us so we can space shoppers out.

Our Social Pantry project has no fixed criteria but is targeted towards those experiencing difficulties with accessing good food regularly and those socially isolated. We welcome new members; just email us on <a href=

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Jun 9

Goodness our community is so full of wonderful folk with all the skillz 👉

For our inaugural Community Skills Day with @whitstableumbrellacentre we are super thrilled to have Magdalen from @communityclothesbank joining us with her Singer 🙌

Magdalen will be in the Cafe with her machine humming away; showing our skillees how to save some of their holey clothing. We will be asking all our attendees to bring something along and they will get a taste of using a sewing machine to fix it up themselves.

Alongside bike puncture repair, learning some safe & fun exercise moves and rewiring a plug. How much fun and upskilllng can one have in a short morning or afternoon sess...?!

The day is a 1.5 hour session, either AM or PM. Suitable for 8 - 11 year olds with parental supervision (coffee & cake is available). Booking is essential but tickets are flexibly priced and are available right up to the day.

The booking link is https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-skills-day-tickets-156536353447

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Jun 9

When your artists are also your regulars ✌

Lovely Patrizia came in for a coffee yesterday so of course we made her pose underneath her gorgeous artwork.

Come in and have a gander; we are open next Friday & Saturday 9 - 4

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Jun 8

Limited edition @chaiwallahmargate grapefruit iced tea in the fridge this morning 🙌

Open 9 - 4 #whitstable

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Jun 7

Put your hands up if you want to learn some new skills? 🙌

We're super stoked that superstar Katie aka @westbeachchallengers is joining us at @whitstableumbrellacentre Community Skills Day on Sunday.

The event is suitable for 8 - 11 year olds and everyone will come away with a certificate to show off the new skills they've learnt. Including a mini set of fun, effective & safe exercises that can be done anywhere under the expertise of Katie.

Katie is a certified personal trainer and knows all about making exercise safe, fun and achievable with her weekly inclusive HIIT classes on the beach.

Katie will also have some great healthy snack tips for everyone we're sure. Follow @westbeachchallengers for great foodie tips and to find out more about what Katie does to help get Whitstable fit.

To book a flexibly priced ticket for Sunday (1.5 hour AM or PM session) go here 👉
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-skills-day-tickets-156536353447

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Jun 7

Morning ! It's a warm one out there.

Coffee & cake by @janeylb is on 🙌

9 - 4 at Whitstable Umbrella Community Centre

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Jun 6

Our art wall is once again adorned 🙌

We have some gorgeous local artwork by @patriziaburgess

Come have a peruse. It is all available to purchase (cash only).

We are open Monday, Tuesday, Friday & Saturday 9 - 4

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Jun 5

We're so pleased to have @vickybikes in our midst next weekend for @whitstableumbrellacentre first Community Skills' Day.

Vicky Balfour is a certified bike mechanic and will be at both the morning & afternoon session showing kids how to fix their own bike punctures.

Community Skills Day is suitable for 8 - 11 year olds and is located at Umbrella Community Centre on the lower ground floor & community gardens. The cafe will be open for drinks & cakes for ticket holders.

Tickets must be bought in advance but are available on a pay what you can basis, with a suggested sliding scale price range.

Ticket link : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-skills-day-tickets-156536353447

Find out more about Vicky here : https://www.vickybikes.co.uk/

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Jun 5

Spice up your weekend ✌✌✌

Served with lots of veggies we've lovingly pickled 🌽🫑🥕

Open 9 - 4, gawn it's Saturday, you can even have a beer with your lunch 😄

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Jun 4

We don't do sandwiches... we do now 👉👉

Ice cream sandwiches, made from scratch in cereal milk, peanut butter & malted chocolate flavours.

There's still Friday doughnuts, don't you worry yourselves.

All of the things, 9 - 4 today 🙌

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