Beech Coffee and Cake | Beech Village Hampshire

We think a coffee shop at Beech Village Hall would be a great place for us to meet, enjoy great coffee, tea and homemade cakes, and share company and conversation.

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This page is meant to share what we are planning and our status.

Here’s how you can get involved:

What you can do?	When?	How?	Press this button:
Let us know what you think	Now	Complete our online survey	Online survey
Volunteer to help	Now	We will need help to: Bake the cakes (Cake Curators) Serve in the shop (Coffee Grinders). Organise the shop eg set up and tidy up, buy milk the day before! (Shop Stewards)	Volunteer
Pottery glazing workshop	4th August 11th August	Bring your family, get creative and help us glaze personalized Beech crockery! We will run informal workshops to glaze tea mugs & plates.	Enroll: Coffee-and-cake-events
Coffee appreciation workshop	4th August 11th August	Learn more about the art of coffee. Attend one of our workshops at Moon Roast, Chilton Candover	Enroll: Coffee-and-cake-events
Cake Fest @ the Beech Village Show	25th September	We want to celebrate and share great cakes and have a little fun! Volunteer as a Cake Curator and bring a cake!	Volunteer to bring a cake!
Coffee and Cake Shop open	2nd October (subject to fund raising)	Come along and try us out! We will be open initially every Friday from 2^nd October from 1000 to 1600.
Donate	Now (please!)	We are keeping costs down by buying second hand where possible but we need donations of £1,100 by the end of August so we can open in September!

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So, what’s the plan?

The objective of the Coffee and Cake shop is to increase our community engagement and well being. We aim to serve our first coffee and slice of home made cake in September this year.

We are not trying to run a ‘commercial’ coffee shop but we will need to cover our costs!

We are just a small team of volunteers who love coffee, tea and/or cake! As of 14th July 2021

We already have:

Completed an initial survey, high level design and business case.
Approval from the Beech Village Management Committee to launch a trial run.
Submitted our case for grants for funding to
1. East Hampshire District Council Community Support Fund
  1. The fund could support up to 50% of our costs in setting our Coffee and Cake shop
  2. The EHDC awards panel meets in August this year to allocate their fund of over £1M
2. The National Lottery Local Connections Fund
  - And the great news we received on the 13th July is that we have been awarded £1,869 towards our total of £6,060

The things we are now working on are:

Some activities for everyone to get involved:
1. Glazing workshops to create very special crockery
2. Coffee awareness workshops at Moon Roast who we plan to work with
3. A Cake ‘Fest’ at the Beech Garden show
Fundraising: We need to raise to raise donations of £1800. We have £700 to go!!!
How we run it (the operational plan). The big dependency is volunteers!
The detailed ‘design’ and ‘shop fitting’ of the lounge in the village hall in August.
And finally the project plan to make it all work! The first big milestone is September 2021 and our first cup of coffee at the Beech Village Show!

We will keep this page updated with our progress!!!

The design We have built and costed this high level design which includes tables, chairs, coffee machine, signage and some decoration. Whilst we will start with coffee, tea and cake we know from our survey that we will need to add lunch options but these need more work. In the design we have a children’s play space, nice seating, outdoor seating and an ‘Eco board’ where we plan to share information on local walks and wildlife.
Fundraising We need to raise £1,150 to launch the trial run (we will need to raise a total of £1800). Here is the button to donate: We have applied for grants to bridge the gap to our total requirement of £6,060
How we run it or the ‘operational model’. This needs to address the day to day work of stocking and staffing a proper coffee shop – who will do this and how?
The plan to get to OPEN! So when will be open to serve our first piece of cake and tea or coffee?