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The Community 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'.
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.
During certain conditions we could provide 'lunch club' style operations enabling warm appertising environments during particularly cold winter periods. Of course the main purpose would be to provide snug welcoming social environments for the benefit of folk in our local communities.
Any 'profits' from the 'cafe project' are put directly and exclusively to community projects.
Opening times and other information on the community cafe may be posted on this website, our own village noticeboard, and via social media.....but mainly by 'neighbourhood word of mouth'. After all, that is what our Cairn community spirit is all about 😇.
