renew169 Wellbeing Café

19/02/2026

We are always looking for new volunteers to join our friendly team. To that end, we have arranged an open evening for people to find out more about what volunteering with us involves. So, if you think you might be interested, please come along, we’d love to see you!

19/02/2026

Silverstone Community Café will be raising funds for us at their coffee morning on Thursday 12th March. Please pop along and support it if you are able to - it’s sure to be a great event!

17/02/2026

It’s starting to look a lot like spring at the community garden, with daffodils flowering and bulbs shooting up. Some fruit trees have been planted too…

14/02/2026

12/02/2026

Join our four week Relaxation Course, designed to help you learn and practice simple effective relaxation methods. Sessions will be led by Tessa Matthews, a social prescriber with the Brackley & Towcester Primary Care Network and will take place on Monday afternoons at the renew169 Café in Towcester,at 1.30 pm, on the 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd March 2026. The group is limited to a maximum of 15 participants and sessions last no longer than one hour.

Places are limited, so to reserve your spot please either speak to Jan or Emma, or email Jemma at manager@renew169.org.uk.

11/02/2026

In the past couple of weeks we have been saddened to learn of the deaths of two much loved and valued members of our renew169 community. They will both be greatly missed and our thoughts and prayers are with all those grieving their loss.

Pete Curtis, who was actively involved as both a volunteer and visitor for several years, will be laid to rest tomorrow, Thursday 12th February. The café will be closed from late morning for a couple of hours, to allow staff, volunteers and visitors to attend Pete’s funeral.

05/02/2026

Our winter newsletter is now available. This is sent out electronically every quarter. If you do not currently receive a copy and would like to, please email Jemma at manager@renew169.org.uk and ask to be added to the mailing list.

03/02/2026

Today at the Community Garden: All of the wood chips have now been laid; we have created a mini woodland walk / shaded seating area for summer; and there was lots of shovelling, traipsing back and forth with the wheelbarrow and raking to get all the soil and compost into the raised beds in the poly tunnel. There was also a well deserved cup of tea after the cleaning up! A big thank to the volunteers from the Tove Valley Centre as well as to the regular garden team.

30/01/2026

Another busy day at the community garden yesterday, spreading the wood chips onto the paths, before a delivery of compost arrived for the beds in the polytunnel.

30/01/2026

A reminder that Grief, Coffee & Comfort takes place at the Café on Friday mornings. Everyone welcome and no need to book.

28/01/2026

The first Repair Café of 2026 will take place this coming Saturday, 31st January. Please bring along any broken small electrical appliances, audio equipment, clocks, garden tools, items of clothing, furniture etc. that needs repairing and we’ll do our best to fix them for you.