CAFE customers will be sitting pretty after a donation of furniture.

Nettlesworth Community Cafe has just taken delivery of £4,000 worth of tables and chairs donated by housing association Cestria Community Housing.

The furniture, more than a dozen tables and two dozen chairs, including wheelchair accessible furniture, came from a former communal room in Chester-le-Street.

Paul Hadden, from Cestria, said: “The furniture had hardly been used and, to all intents and purposes, was new, so we approached the café which was delighted to take it.

“Nettlesworth community café is a fantastic project – as well as providing inexpensive, healthy food, it’s also a vital meeting place for local people”.

Launched two years ago, the volunteer-run cafe is open two days a week and is home to the Little Stars carers’ and toddler’s group, as well as being a distribution point for Durham Foodbank.

Chairman John Barclay, said: “We provide many elderly residents with their main meal of the day”.