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The Community Resilience Cafe:
Local Authority Registration is required if food is prepared for public consumption, whether or not it is provided for payment or free of charge. Having 'handed back' the keys for the hall, back to D&G Council, we no longer operate at the village hall as an 'in situ' cafe. We hope that future users of the village hall take the necessary steps for compliance in respect of food hygiene. But we still have the registered food preparation area at Lilac Cottage, loosely referred to as the 'Cairn Cafe', as opposed to a registration at the village hall.
So the kitchen at Lilac Cottage is registered with D&G Environmental Health. Our 'cafe' volunteers all hold Level 2 certification and the location uses the authorised 'Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system for compliance. Our Group is fully insured for liability, and compliance is a requirement to so operate. Long gone are the days when local residents could merely cook up some soup in their own un-regulated non-compliant kitchens and distribute it door to door - free of charge or otherwise.
The benefit of having this 'cafe' set up at Lilac Cottage is that we have no need to pay any hall letting fees and the village hall facility would be pretty useless in a power outage scenario. Being 'at our house' with no rental requirements emergency use would be free of charge. The Lilac Cottage registration is only designed to be used in conjunction with the Group's Resilience Plan.
Any use of the 'cafe' would be a non commercial facility and should any 'profits' be made the proceeds would be put directly and exclusively Group to community projects.
Opening times and other information on the community cafe would be provided just by 'neighbourhood word of mouth'. After all, that is what our Cairn community spirit is all about 😇.
