IMPORTANT NEWS FROM LAUNTON’S COMMUNITY CAFÉ

You may be interested to know that since Launton’s Community Caféhas been operating for some years now with the invaluable help of a dedicated team of volunteers, we felt it was time to take the opportunity afforded by the long summer holiday to review the activities on offer. Until now the Café has operated on a term-time only basis with two, weekly sessions:

The morning session opening between 9 and 11am which welcomes all comers from the community, particularly including pre-schoolers with their carers, to enjoy congenial company, refreshments and play! This is largely self-sufficient and our guests enjoy the relaxed atmosphere which promotes an overall beneficial generational mix. We envisage that the future will see our extending the scope of these sessions by widening our publicity to attract more guests. We open again for the morning session at 9am on 10 September - you are more than welcome.

The afternoon session, latterly running between 3 and 4.30pm, also in term time, welcomed visitors as in the morning, but with an additional emphasis on accommodating school-aged children or siblings straight from school, by offering craft based activities.

Although this has been largely successful, we have been questioning whether or not there might be an alternative way of meeting this group’s needs in a more relevant, innovative way. So, in taking this opportunity of a rethink by addressing what we are offering, we decided that this was the time to suspend the afternoon sessions for now, and we are delighted to let you know that we are actively planning to launch a new initiative by introducing

Holiday Family Fun Sessions

the first of these is scheduled for 1 November – the friday of the half term holiday. It will be a faith-based morning full of fun for children with their carers.

Please save the date and check our facebook page (Launton church facebook) for more details: in the meantime have a great start to the new term.

From your friends at St Mary’s Church