The Pulse Cafe

Local people from Skillnet Group to open a cafe and meeting place in the heart of Sittingbourne.

Offering a delicious seasonal cafe menu and a welcoming and comfortable meeting place for the whole community.

The Pulse Café and Meeting Place (at the old Labour Hall in Park Road) is situated a stone’s throw from the town centre. The Pulse offers a place where people can feel engaged and connected, to each other and to their community.

The café is fully accessible and will act as a platform for a mixture of surgeries, drop-ins, workshops; skills training and communal use of meeting rooms, with the support of various partners who are working alongside us on this project. It will be run as a social firm, employing people from the local community.

The Pulse Cafe plans to serve a fresh wholesome menu including great coffee, delicious cakes, mouth-watering salads and pizza and an ever changing specials board. We are committed to using great-tasting, locally sourced, quality ingredients.

Not only will you be able to pop in for a cuppa and a healthy snack, your creative appetite will also be catered for, as the cafe will showcase work by local artists and craftspeople and local DJ’s.

Louise, one of the new managers at The Pulse, said “There are a lot of pubs and cafes in Sittingbourne but nowhere for parents with young children or people needing extra access to go for good quality drinks and healthy snacks at an affordable price.” Louise also said “We would love to hear from any local artists, craftspeople and DJ’s who would like to showcase their work in the cafe, run workshops or have a DJ slot during the day, or any volunteers who would like to serve in the cafe. If you are interested in getting more involved please contact us on the numbers below”.

The new café will completely embrace values of the green agenda. For example it will operate a zero waste policy; work to position itself as a centre for sustainable excellence and promote good environmental practice and awareness though interaction with a wide variety of people and groups – modelling how to be eco-friendly and reduce waste.

We have already installed photo-voltaic cells on the roof in order to generate our own green electricity and we are planning to add rain-water harvesting tanks so that we can use rainwater for flushing the toilets.

The site also houses the Skillnet Group Eco-Shed as an emerging social firm. The Eco-Shed is run by people with learning difficulties who make eco-products out of recycled wood (and other materials) to sell at craft fairs, on our website, local country parks, wildlife and environmental centres and other outlets.

Both the café/meeting place and the Eco-Shed offer people supported by Skillnet Group opportunities to practise the skills that they are developing, in real-life settings.

The Pulse website is coming soon…

How To Find Us: Click Here

The co-ordinates are N51 degrees 20.374', E 0 degrees 43.962'

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