Princes Trust Team Challenge

The Teapot café opened during February 2011 and currently has eight volunteers running it on Wednesday afternoons from 2.30pm-4.30pm based at Christ the Servant Church in Digmoor. The café started off as a place of training for people with learning disabilities and provides a good atmosphere, great services and a supportive and friendly community. The café also runs at the same time as the UK Online Centre, which is an online basic course for people to attend and complete computer courses at their own pace.

The café acts as a stepping stone to employment in the catering industry, as the volunteers receive hands on experience and training. A regular customer of the café said “It’s easy to get to with good parking and it’s a place you can go to sit and have a chat. It’s also very reasonably priced”.

The Princes Trust twelve week team 32 programme from Skelmersdale College requires that the team members undertake a challenge and find a place in need of assistance. In this particular instance the Princes Trust chose to help the Teapot Café and raise public awareness of their business.

The Princes Trust Team organised a leaflet drop and wore fancy dress with a “Mad Hatters tea party theme” to promote the café. They also took part in a gardening project, organised an arts and crafts afternoon and carried out a sponsored walk around the Beacon Country Park.  In all, the team managed to raise more than £400 for the Teapot Café!  
Princes Trust Team Member

We are very grateful for all the help the Princes Trust gave to support the work of Interact4all as well as The Teapot Cafe and for the superb amount of money they raised.                                                                   

Janet