Soup and a Blether Café

In September 2022 the Colinsburgh Community Trust established a weekly ‘Soup and a Blether’ café in the Galloway Library in Colinsburgh, run by a group of local, trained volunteers.

 

The objective of the café is to provide high quality, sustainable, and affordable service of homemade soups and baking, with refreshments, to residents of Colinsburgh and the wider public, and in doing so provide a focus for community interaction whilst also generating income to support the continued viability of the library.

 

The popular café is open from noon each Friday until about 3:00pm. The café serves a choice of homemade soups, bread and butter, plus a selection home-baked cakes, and tea/coffee to follow.

 

Following the receipt of a grant from Fife Council, the food is currently being provided free of charge, although a small, voluntary donation is always welcome.

 

Volunteering:

If you would like to be a volunteer for the café, then we'd love to hear from you to help share the load. We need people to make the soups and cakes and also set-up, run and close down the café. The volunteers agree the rota on a monthly basis, with no regular commitment required.

 

All volunteers making any food to be sold from the cafe must have recently obtained the Scottish Food Safety and Hygiene training, level 2 certificate, or have received equivalent refresher instruction from and be accompanied on shift by a Level 2 qualified volunteer, or have recent, appropriate food preparation experience.  

If you would like to gain the qualification we will provide you with access to free on-line training to help you achieve this. The Café Volunteer Guidance Document can be found here. 

 

The contact name for the café is Linda Walker.