Churchfield Community Trust CLG
We create inclusive, empowering pathways to growth, wellbeing, and community connection.
Supporting adults in Cork with therapeutic, educational, and employment-focused programmes.
About the Garden Cafe
The Garden Café is housed in a beautiful Victorian-style glasshouse in the gardens of the Cork Foyer grounds. It serves fresh, nutritious food to the public while doubling as a live training environment for service users of Churchfield Community Trust.
The Cafe provides hands-on training in hospitality while fostering social inclusion and employability. The purpose of the Garden Cafe is to enhance social inclusion, interpersonal connectedness, self-esteem and employability.
At The Garden Cafe, we’re passionate about serving delicious food made with fresh, locally sourced ingredients, supporting local farmers, businesses, and our community every step of the way.
The continuing success of this initiative is thanks to the unique community spirit and good will which exists in the Blackpool area and from our partners
This is a nonprofit initiative which brings out the best in people through hands-on work and supports them to realise their true potential. Funding has been sourced from several organisations to which we are very grateful.
SERVOL
Ethos
The project bases its ethos on the SERVOL model. The idea which underlies the work of SERVOL is one of respectful interventions in people’s lives and situations.
This respectful intervention involves three principles:
- A philosophy of ignorance, which we never assume that we know the needs of people we are trying to help. We begin by asking them how they want to be helped.
- We must listen attentively to what they tell us and make it the cornerstone of our development programme.
- We must not barge into the lives of people filled with cultural arrogance; rather we must try to help them through a process of respectful intervention in which everyone becomes a partner in the journey to true development.
Applying the SERVOL model as a framework we aspire to help individuals stay clear of criminal activities. While our underlying philosophy remains the same, over the years the organisation has changed and grown considerably. Today, the organisation provides support to adults (18yrs+) experiencing challenges and who have lived experience.
Core Objectives
- Establish safer communities through reduction of recidivism.
- Promotion of integration of people with lived experience.
- Provision of key therapeutic interventions.
- Provision of addiction support in the community.
- Creation of sustainable training & employment opportunities.
- Provide alternative pathways to education.
- Development of key infrastructure capital projects.
Core Activities
2023
Annual Report
Churchfield Community Trust published its 2023 Annual report on 25.05.2024 to coincide with the publication of audited accounts for the same year.
Strong Partnerships
Our Funders
The Garden Cafe & Churchfield Community Trust gratefully acknowledges the support of funders, whose contributions make our work possible. Funders enable us to provide services and support to young adults across the northside of Cork City. Cork City Council is a
The support of Cork City Council makes the Garden Cafe Social enterprise possible.
Churchfield Community Trust is funded by:
Department of Justice, Home Affairs & Migration ( Probation Service)
Health Service Executive ( Section 39), Pobal (Community Service Programme)
Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth. (Your Place Your Space Thematic )Â
This invaluable support helps Churchfield Community Trust to serve the local community, develop innovative programs, and ensure equitable access to services.
Churchfield Community Trust has signed up to the Government’s Code for Community Voluntary and Charitable Organisations in Ireland and is compliant with it.