A group of volunteers and staff from The Well attended a parlour lunch on 12 February, 2008 with Farehams Mayor, Mrs Katrina Trott, at the Civic Offices.
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Sandie Warner joins us as Vanessa has now gone to live in Wales with her husband Peter. Sandie has a retail background and worships at Locks Heath. Come in and say hello - you will find her in the Well most Mondays and often on a Tuesday.
For a limited period of time we have various CD's reduced to £4.50 to clear out old stock. Come and see what there is and find a bargin. Also look out for our new stock of CD's coming soon.
There is a good selection of Easter cards and gifts now in stock along with childrens activity books and leaders books for junior church / Sunday school teachers.
Bookings are now being taken for Easter turkey lunches. Please speak to the duty manager for more information.
We give a 10% discount to churches buying books through The Well. We are happy to order any items not in stock.
If you have a special occassion coming up why not consider a 'take away' buffet from The Well. All freshly made and we can adapt to your requirements. Please ask the duty manager for details.
Just before Christmas Pippa and Sue took a selaction of books and gifts to several churches in the area during the Sunday coffee time following the morning service. These churches included Holy Rood at Stubbington, St John's at Locks Heath and St John's in Fareham. We will shortly be going out to St Mary's at Warsash. If your church would be interested in us coming along with a similar book and gift stall, please phone either Pippa or Sue on 01329 318731.
Stuck for an idea on what book to buy - Select magazine can give you some pointers. Pick up your free copy in the shop today.
Don't miss out on your copy. We can place a regular order for reading notes and Christian magazines. Please speak to the duty manager
In the coffee shop area is a box where prayer requests and / or suggestions can be placed. The box is checked daily and we pray each day prior to opening. Please feel free to post a note to us.
The Well is helping people back into the workplace by providing teaching in catering techniques and then allowing them to test their practical skills in the kitchen and cafe. Candidates spend three hours on Saturday mornings doing the acedemic learning and then work in its kitchens and cafe for a few hours during the week. For Lisa Crossley, 24, it should provide a way back into catering after she dropped out of a Highbury College course. "I help with the cooking, the washing-up and preparing food," she said. "I like all of it and I'm really learning. It's a very supportive place to work and I hope it will lead on to a full time job somewhere." Dave Phillips, 50, is also gaining valuable experiance in working the till, food hygiene and health and safety issues. I'm between jobs, so I'm hoping this will get me back into employment in future," he said. "I enjoy working the tills and talking to customers. I'm certainly more aware of what goes on in a place like this now" he National Open College Network qualification only lasts four weeks. Several groups of students have already completed their courses and the next starts soon. The first set of students included two teenagers from Baycroft Special School on day release, youngsters from the Fareport Training Organisation and jobless people enrolling on New Deal schemes. June Haye, the manager of The Well, said: "It's been a great benefit to all of the students, because thy are learning about employment as well as what to do inthe kitchen. And it's cetainly helped us out as they have been eager to help." Since we have started the Open Network Course around thirty young people have gained qualifications at Level 1 Food Hygiene, Customer Care and Health and Safety. We are now working towards NVQ qualifications at Level 2 and hope this qualification will be available soon.
The Fair Trade products continue to be very popular. A number of our local churches take Fair Trade goods for stalls in churches and also some local schools sell our Fair Trade items. Look out for and support these if you can. If your church or organisation would like to run a stall, pop in and have a chat about how this works. We can also order Fair Trade items and the latest catalogues are available in the shop.
Traid Craft stall at St Johns
We are available in the evenings for pre booked events. We are also considering an evening each week when local teenagers could come in for a coffee, chat and music. Of course this requires people willing to offer their time to run the evening. If you might be interested in this why not pop in and have a chat about it.
A big thank you to the guys from HMS Collingwood who gave their time to help with the painting
If you would like to bake a cake at The Well to sell in the coffee shop, we would love to see you. Please arrange a time to come in, either morning or afternoon.
For those who enjoy a cup of coffee or tea at The Well we have a loyalty card available. Buy nine drinks and get your card stamped each time and we will give you the tenth cup 'on the house'.
