The Rainbow Café at St Mary's Church, Upchurch

2nd September - 7th October - 4th November - 2nd December

All ages welcome

Hi everyone,

We are so pleased to announce that the Rainbow Café will be reopening on Thursday the 2nd of September. Then every first Thursday of the month.

Our opening times will be slightly longer. We will open from 2:00pm until 5:00pm. This will enable any adults who would like a bit of space to come and enjoy tea and cake before we get busy with our Rainbow Kids.

Safety

Our risk assessment is available to anyone who wishes to see it.

We will be asking everyone to sign in. This is so we can keep you informed if anyone at the Rainbow Café tests positive for Covid. It will also allow us to contact you about anything that we think you will enjoy. We will protect your details and if you don't want to be contacted, please tick the no contact square on the form.

There will be hand-gel readily available along with masks for those who want one and have forgotten their own. Please respect those who want to keep their distance and want to wear a mask.

There will still be our great 'Snack Deal' for the kids - 5 items plus a juice for £1. Our tea/coffee/cakes and savouries will still be really good value. And we are still keeping 4 Ugandan children in school, as well as providing them with books, pens, shoes and uniforms. The great thing was, that throughout lockdown we were able to keep funding them, because of generous donations from people in Upchurch.

Because Covid hasn't gone away there will be a small change. We will be asking the children to sit to eat, sit to play games and sit to do crafts. Until we have worked out how the Rainbow Café will run normally, we will be asking parents to help us make sure there isn't any running around. The other change will be that at the end of the Rainbow Café (4:30pm) there will be a bible story in the Lady Chapel while the Rainbow Café team clean and sanitize all the games, pens etc. Of course, the story isn't compulsory and you are free to leave at that point instead of stay for the story. However, we do hope the children will like the idea of a story and that you decide to join us.

We are really looking forward to seeing you all at the next Rainbow Café.

Gill Gay and all the Rainbow Café team