Cafe & Wellbeing Centre

The Booth Centre welcomes anyone who is homeless or at risk of homelessness. Our Cafe and Wellbeing Centre is open five days a week, offering people the chance to come in and eat a free healthy cooked breakfast and lunch in a sociable environment. It's also an opportunity to have a shower, pick up essential toiletries, and talk to trained staff and volunteers. People can also use the internet or take part in wellbeing activities such as Music Cafe.

The Cafe is a vital part of the centre, helping people who need support to meet in a warm, friendly, relaxed and sociable environment. Aside from providing direct practical support, this helps enormously in combating the sense of social isolation that people can feel. 

Supported volunteering programme

We serve over 200 people a week with a healthy and delicious breakfast and lunch from our fantastic, fully equipped catering kitchen. Not only does this have a direct benefit on the people who visit the centre in allowing them to eat a nutritious meal, it also provides an opportunity for people to volunteer in the kitchen - enabling them to gain practical work-based skills and to gain a food safety qualification. From this we support people to move on to further training, voluntary work or employment in the catering industry. Through our supported volunteering programme people can gain experience in different areas of the centre whilst receiving one to one mentoring and advice to achieve their personal goals.

Our kitchen has consistently been awarded a 5* food hygiene rating, which is a tremendous achievement and a real testament to the hard work of the staff and volunteers who provide this invaluable service.