Thu 21 Nov: Deli & Cafe User Group
Charlbury Deli & Cafe
Community owned and run since 1991
‘Friends’ Inaugural Meeting 21/11/24
As many readers will know, the Deli & Café has recently lost its long-serving manager not to mention a change in the chair of directors.
What you may not know is that the business was set up as a simple limited company but has over 100 shareholders – and has always been seen more as a community facility than a profit making enterprise for them (just as well!).
With major changes going on, both with us and elsewhere in the town, we are reviewing the business operation to ensure it will continue to serve the community – both as a facility and as an employer – we hope for another 30 years. And to help us plan the future and maintain our place as part of the community, we’d like to set up a ‘user group’ to provide us with feedback and ideas to help take things forward.
To that end, we’ll be holding an inaugural meeting at the D&C on Thursday 21 November from 6.30pm for 7.00 start. This will be open to all, not just to our shareholders and those already on our mailing list – so come and have a glass of wine (but please bring your own glass in case we run out!) with us and a pre-Christmas chat – your chance to tell us the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful, what you’d like to see us doing in the future, thoughts on opening hours, events – and anything else that occurs to you.
We’d also love to hear from anyone who might be interested in volunteering on particular aspects be they practical (e.g. re-decorating, helping to run a market stall) or more on the business side (e.g. marketing) but who doesn’t want the responsibility and time involved in becoming a director. We are very open minded on this at present but it would be good to have a list of people with relevant skills we could call on for help as and when needed.
If you’d like to put something in writing beforehand, please do and send it to directors@charlburydeli.cafe (can be confidentially if you’d prefer).
And while I’m here – advance notice of late evening shopping and wine tasting on 6 and 13 December…