A new community-focused café has opened at a popular Calverton park just in time for the summer holidays.
Snack’s Cafe opened its doors in the newly-extended village hall in the William Lee Memorial Park.
Calverton Parish Council have chosen local lad Liam Hall to be the tenant from a number of applicants, and it finally opened last week.
The café serves fully cooked breakfasts, jacket potatoes, hot and cold savoury and sweet pastries and filled cobs, paninis, and chips – all to eat in or takeaway. They also sell snacks, sweets, chocolate, a wide range of drinks and slush puppies.
The parish council have just awarded a contract to a paving company to have a large outdoor seating area in front of the café.
Liam said “Starting any new business is always a risk, but I have been coming to this park since I was a boy, and I have always known it has cried out for a café and the response from the community has been amazing, I cannot thank the village enough for supporting me this first week.
“Working with Calverton Parish council has been great and it’s been more like a partnership than dealing with a landlord. The chairman of the council (Andy Meads) oversaw the café fit out, met environmental health with me before we started, and even did all the plumbing himself.”
The cafe is the final phase of the village hall extension, with planning beginning in 2021, and the parish council are continually upgrading facilities on the park.
A new five acre wildlife area opened a day after the café, and in the last year the parish council has installed new twin zip wires, climbing nets, had new paths built, reinstated two of the old football pitches and increased the size of the car park.
New major improvements are planed later this year and into 2025.
