renew169 Wellbeing Café

08/12/2025

On Sunday, two of our volunteers, Judy & Paul, went along to The Watling St Village Christmas Market with a selection of lovely handicrafts: Woodwork items made by Paul, felted pocket bears made by Judy, pottery items made by Judy’s sister, Helen, and acorn decorations made by one of our community gardeners, Zoe. We’re very grateful to them all for their hard work and to Watling St. Village for having us. Thank you to everyone who came along and bought things; they managed to make £146.00.

08/12/2025

08/12/2025

06/12/2025

Final reminder that we’ll be at the Watling St. Village Christmas Market tomorrow. This is a selection of the sort of things we’ll be bringing, so please come along and have a browse. All of the proceeds from sales will go to renew169.

05/12/2025

We would like to say a big thank you to a wonderful group of people (Ruth, Sarah, Aaron, Reece & Maddie), who visited the café this week bearing gifts. For many years now, in the run up to Christmas, they have turned December into ‘24 Days of Giving’, supporting local charities and voluntary organisations through practical donations, as well as thanking everyday heroes by presenting them with tubs of Cadbury’s Heroes chocolates. This year we were fortunate to have been chosen by them as one of their charities to support, not only with their kind and generous gifts, but through highlighting the work we do. Thank you so much all of you! Our 24 Days of Giving -2025

05/12/2025

Grief, Comfort & Coffee again today, from 10-11.30am at the café.

04/12/2025

We are excited to announce that we will be joining in with this initiative and having a pop-up on Thursday 11th December. Please come along and support our local businesses for this Christmas shopping event and call in to see us too. Once the café closes at 3pm for the usual drop in service, we will open up again serving a complimentary Christmas punch and mince pies and selling a variety of home made and hand-crafted items made by our lovely volunteers and visitors. We very much hope you will join us!

02/12/2025

There was lots of fun to be had at the café this afternoon, making these lovely Christmas angel decorations…

01/12/2025

We are pleased to announce that as of today Emma Collard has taken over from Jemma as our new Wellbeing Assistant. Regulars to the café may know Emma, as she has been volunteering with us for about a year.
Jemma is still with us, but will now focus on her role as charity manager and Emma will work alongside Jan in the café. Jan will continue to be in the café on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Emma will be there on Wednesdays and Thursdays, with a view to possibly adding Fridays at some point in the future. Her first day in her new role will be this coming Wednesday, 3rd December.
Welcome to the team Emma, we are delighted to have you on board!

01/12/2025

Our newly redesigned website is now up and running, so please take a look at it by visiting www.renew169.org.uk. Remember to bookmark it to keep up to date with useful information, news and events.

30/11/2025

These handicrafts and more available to purchase at the Watling St. Village Christmas Market next Sunday. We hope to see you there!

29/11/2025

Another day, another Christmas Craft Fayre… This time Amanda took a few bits and pieces along to a church coffee morning and craft fayre in Buckingham and made £106.10 for renew169.