New cafe on way in heartbeat
Trust are step nearer plans
Community activists are a step closer to opening a new cafe in Tullibody.
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT) has been working with the Tullibody Community Development Trust to lay on food hygiene and first aid training for the group, which plans to open a café next year.
Volunteers from Tullibody Community Garden, Wayahead Play Scheme and the Guild also took part.
TCDT was set-up and has taken over the running of the Tullibody Civic Centre as part of a community asset transfer from Clackmannanshire Council.
The trust offers a range of activities at the civic centre, including exercise classes for older adults, tai chi, yoga, burlesque chair dancing, wrestling, toddlers’ groups, Citizens Advice Bureau outreach, Ochil
View Housing drop-in, table tennis and a youth drop-in session on a Friday evening.
TCDT chair Janette McGowan said: “We’re committed to providing a range of services and activities to local people now we’ve taken over Tullibody Civic Centre. Thanks to the food hygiene and first aid training from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust, we plan to open a community café in the new year which will provide lovely food, as well as a place to meet, for locals.”
Nicky Wilson, a CRT trustee in Scotland, said: “We’re pleased that the Tullibody Community Trust and other local organisations are able to benefit from our hygiene and first aid training which they all seem to enjoy and find worthwhile.”