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The donation, from Witney Rotary Club, is a major step towards making the ‘Social Enterprise Café’ self-sustaining. The Café has two aims, to produce and serve a range of good food and drink to customers, and provide a working environment for young people with learning difficulties to gain work experience and undertake Training Apprenticeships.
Over £2,000 of the cost of the new equipment come from the Witney Rotary Club Charity Trust Fund, money raised from local community events, including Witney Carnival. A further grant of £1000 came from Rotary District 1090.
A further sum of £500 was donated to help finance Training Apprenticeships for young people working in the Cafe. An important step in ensuring that, whatever the problems; each individual reaches their full potential and is able to live life to the full.
2015-16 Club President Ashley Farmer supported by Club member Andy Wolf, Manager of Café Rouge in Marriotts Walk, established a list of equipment requirments, an order was placed and the new equipment is already in use for the summer season.
Yellow Submarine, a local charity, supports young people with learning difficulties and autism. The organisation operates two social enterprise café facilities, one in Oxford and the one in the Windrush Leisure Centre in Witney. The Witney Café was officially launched by Prime Minister David Cameron in September 2015.
For further information visit Yellow Submarine Website
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