Charity’s cafe and HQ need new home
RUDDI’S RETREAT IS ON THE MOVE
POPULAR cafe Ruddi’s Vintage Treat Rooms is looking for a new home after five years in Linthwaite.
The charity Ruddi’s Retreat and the cafe staff are looking to move out of the Manchester Road premises before their two leases come to an end next December.
Ali Waterworth, who set up the charity, which provided respite holidays for families with seriously ill children, said it was time for the charity and cafe to move out of Linthwaite.
She is in the process of looking for new premises in Marsden or Slaithwaite and expects to be on the move soon.
She explained: “The building has been up for sale since we moved in.”
“The landlady has offered us first refusal....they want to sell the building. We can’t afford it as we are a charity and cannot spend £200,000 on a building.”
She said the cafe and charity were running normally at present but the move to new premises would be happening as soon as a suitable new building could be found.
“We are looking at other buildings in Marsden and Slaithwaite, both have nice village centres with supportive people. We are looking for something quite big like a former pub or a cafe. A former pub would be perfect.”
Ali says the cafe, which is run by seven staff, is as popular as ever, with customers coming from all corners of West Yorkshire for cakes and teas.
The building is also home to charity staff who run Ruddi’s Retreat and Gwennie’s Getaways, a group which provides short breaks to those with dementia and their family or carers.
The sale of the building – known as Spring House – is being marketed by Leeds-based business agent Ernest Wilson which says it could be suitable as a residential property, a collection of apartments or a business with a home attached.
The sales details reveals that Spring House was originally a bakery with a well and a freshwater spring in the cellar.
You can support Ruddi’s by wearing yellow on Friday, September 27 and donating £1 as part of Go Yellow for Childhood Cancer.
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