DESIGN plans for a brand-new community café at a Bournemouth food bank centre have been unveiled.
Bournemouth Foodbank is set to launch a café within its Boscombe centre at St George's Methodist Church in a project aided by grants from BCP Council and the Dorset Community Foundation.
The new café will serve freshly cooked and nutritionally balanced meals to foodbank users, members of the public and organisations operating within the foodbank centre. The café’s purpose is to bring the community together in a welcoming, collaborative format, while offering those in need additional support.
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Support includes financial advice and upskilling via training, such as cookery and kitchen staff courses.
Bournemouth Foodbank appointed KTM Design to help deliver their vision, with the local interior design company offering its services free of charge.
Debbie Coombes, project director at Bournemouth Foodbank, said: “We are delighted to be working with the team at KTM Design to bring our Community Café to life. Our vision is to create a space where the people in our community can come to be refreshed with conversations and friendships.
“We want to see people that have found themselves on the fringes of society being restored.”
January alone saw Bournemouth Foodbank feed more than 1,000 people.
KTM Design founder Katie Thomas added: “Bournemouth Foodbank has been a lifeline for thousands of local families over the past year.
“Our design ideas centre around creating a warm, welcoming space which not only encourages foodbank users, but also members of the public and employees to use the area as a social café.
“We’ve included large tables within different areas of the café, allowing visitors to sit and play games. The community feel will be amplified by large motivational words displayed in fun, bright graphics. We also opted for an earthy colour palette with rustic woods, contrasted against clean, white metro tiles to showcase a relaxing, comfortable environment.
“Herb pots will be dotted around the space to celebrate the natural elements, while being practical for the kitchen to use.”
Visit bournemouth.foodbank.org.uk for more information.
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