THE bosses of a cafe dedicated to helping the community is urging residents help it support an array of causes.
Amanda Pagram, who runs the cafe at Meadowfields, in Thirsk, said it had proved increasingly popular since it launched last August and served 250 covers a week, alongside running the town's Meals on Wheels service and a lunch club for the elderly.
The trade has enabled the Thirsk Community Care cafe to employ someone who was classed as long-term unemployed and a person with autism, while there are plans to take on an apprentice.
She said the cafe's opening hours were being extended at weekends as part of a drive to attract the town's residents to visit.
Mrs Pagram said: "We are trying very hard to fulfil the purpose of a community cafe, which is to help local people.
"We are here to do things like getting people who have struggled to find a job off the dole and accept people with disabilities can be just as valuable."
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