Cafe entry removed

One cafe I used to frequent has stopped serving fair trade tea and coffee.  Fine, but you aren't getting a link from this blog any more.

If you are making £8,000 surplus per year from your volunteer staffed cafe, then you can afford a fair trade teabag.

Don't screw the tea and coffee growers.

Or me.

Post will be reinstated when ethics becomes the norm.

First post

This blog exists to list the churches that have regular cafes and lunch clubs which are open to members of the public. Christian coffee shops will also get a mention.

I like cake. Some of the best cake nearby is sold through a couple of church cafes, so I thought I'd share this information with the rest of the world. As I travel around I'll be listing the church cafes and Christian coffee shops that I visit. There's a great cafe on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh that isn't full of tourists, and there's a small cafe in Perth that does an outstanding pot of soup. I'm not going to keep this information to myself any longer. Watch this space...

This is my blog so any decision about what is or isn't included is entirely up to me. I'll make up the rules as we go, but the more important ones are below...

1. Your cafe needn't be in a church building, but you must have a Christian connection, whatever the denomination.

2. If I visit your cafe I expect to see fair trade tea or coffee. If you are raising funds for your church by ripping off poor coffee growers then you are missing the point.

3. Your cafe should be a regular afair, if not daily, then at least weekly.

4. You should welcome members of public, although if you wish to restrict it to certain age groups, ie pensioners, teenagers etc then that's fair enough.

5. A reasonable selection of home baking would be nice!

If you know of a cafe that I should list here, please post a comment with as much information as possible.