You asked and we delivered. Many of you may have visited the Lion's Den tea Rooms in our early days, and you know that we had to close it when Covid hit to provide adequate space for our service users. Ever since then we have been inundated with requests to re open a refreshment facility. Well, with the help of various funding streams we have done it.
On Friday the 24th April 202 the Rainforest cafe (so name after one of our service users, Evan, always refering to the Lion's Den Tea Room as the Rainforest Cafe) was officially opened.
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The journey stared at in the second half of 2024, with the putting together and building of a wooden structure that would display and store all the refreshment produce. We used innovative footings that would keep the base of the shed safe from damp ground, and bolstered that with a heavy coating of preservative on all the bottom joists.
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Then the construction began; the wooden shed rising from the decking boards, and carefully painted so that it blended into the landscape of the site..
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Along with members of the general public, family, friends, careres and guardians some of our Funders turned up for the grand opening of the Rainforest Cafe by the mayor of Durham, Liz Brown
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So we now have a beautiful and peaceful refreshment centre where anyone can come and help themselves to drinks, confectionary, scones and cakes, find a picnic bench or quiet seat in our demonstration gardens or riverside woodlands and soak in our tranquil surroundings. Please do bring along your furry four footed friend too. We have a doggy service station, free biscuits and plenty of poop bags in case of emergencies. We just ask that they be kept on leads at all times though.
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