New Community Café available for local groups and charities to use free of charge!
York-based not-for-profit healthcare provider Nimbuscare has created a brand new Community Café facility at its Acomb Garth Community Care Centre that local not-for-profit community groups and charities can use free of charge.
The spacious Community Café is equipped with its own kitchen facilities and can be booked by eligible organisations between 8am and 8pm from Monday to Friday, and from 8am to 12 noon on Saturdays.
Its development reinforces Nimbuscare’s commitment to investing back into the local communities that it serves and follows a decision earlier this year by the ‘at scale’ health care provider, which is made up of 11 GP practices working collaboratively across the city, to set up a charitable arm called the Nimbuscare Community Fund, which supports projects and initiatives that benefit people living in the local area.
Nimbuscare’s Chief Executive, Madeline Ruff, said: “Our new Acomb Garth site, which opened to patients earlier this month, is the second Community Care Centre that we’ve developed in York; the other is at Askham Bar. We’re already running a wide - and ever growing - range of community-based health care services for local people from Acomb Garth. The Community Café is a wonderful addition to the facilities on offer there, and it’s to be used as a local community asset by not-for-profit groups and charities.”
Any groups and charities interested in visiting the Community Café to see the facilities on offer or that would like to make a booking, are asked to email: nimbuscare.community.cafe@nhs.net.
Applications for grants of up to £5,000 from Nimbuscare’s Community Fund are also now being received once again. As part of the first round of funding earlier this year, Nimbuscare allocated grants totalling more than £80,000 to 19 different community-based projects and organisations working to enhance the mental health and emotional wellbeing of local people.
The chosen focus for the 2022/2023 financial year is on projects and activities that connect people with the place they live and community life, and enhance and promote the wellbeing of local people. As before, The Two Ridings Community Foundation, an independent charity, will be helping to asses the applications and allocate the funding on Nimbuscare’s behalf. For more information, including the eligibility criteria, please visit: www.tworidingscf.org.uk/fund/the-nimbuscare-community-fund/
Madeline Ruff added: “Once again, we’re welcoming grant applications from eligible community-based groups and projects in the area of York and East Yorkshire that we serve; we’re much looking forward to hearing more about their ideas and proposals.”