Chiltern Way Community Café
Students from the Chiltern Way Academy, Wendover Campus, set up a pop-up café at the Holy Trinity Church Hall on Tuesday 1st March for the local community to attend. The students provided homemade afternoon tea, cakes, sandwiches, sausage rolls and a chat amongst friends. The event was heavily supported by the community and allowed the students to build positive relationships with their customers whilst giving the students the opportunity of work experience. Nick Hall, Head of Work Ways at Chiltern Way Academy, said:
“The community cafe allows our students to run an enterprise project and gain valuable work skills and life skills. The café provides a friendly and welcoming meeting space for the community to gather, as well as providing an opportunity for the local community to learn more about our school, what we do and get a real insight into its students. The students plan the menu and then set up and run the café largely independently. On Tuesday, the students did a wonderful job managing our busiest event yet and the customer feedback has been great. One customer said “We were blown away by the quality of the food, all the effort with the setup, menus, flowers, crockery etc. and the manner in which the students conducted themselves. What a fabulous achievement.”
The next event for the pop-up café is on Tuesday the 5th April at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Prestwood.
Paul Coffey, Head of Campus, Chiltern Way Academy, Wendover