To welcome hungry festival goers to Reading, a town centre café served up free tea and toast on the first day of the Festival.
Café 12, which opens in The Pavilion on Fridays from 10am to 2pm, held a Festival special on Friday, August 22.
Volunteers from the Café, which is run by LifeSpring Church, offered free cake on the street and then invited people up the steps and into the building for free refreshments.
The Pavilion used to be a music hall and cinema but is now home to LifeSpring Church, and Café 12 is one of the community initiatives it has launched. It offers light lunches and refreshments at reasonable prices and has recently been awarded five stars in the food hygiene Scores On The Doors scheme.
“Today has been an opportunity to welcome Festival goers,” explained Pastor Nev Hollands from LifeSpring.
“We offered tea and coffee and toast to anyone who was passing by, just to bless them and to give them the opportunity to come into the building and have something to eat and to rest.
“Reading Festival is such a big event. [For the] people finding their way through [the town] – this is an opportunity just to open our doors for them.”
Pastor Nev Hollands with some of the Café 12 team.
Picture © Lynda Bowyer Photography
Last modified on Monday, 13 April 2015 07:56
