February 2026 – Plateful Café Finds a Home

This month’s edition marks a major milestone as Plateful Café secures its first operational base at Blackfriars Settlement, enabling the launch of its Warm Space soup initiative and laying the groundwork for expanded training, catering, and café services from April. The newsletter highlights a growing events programme, including Migration on Film nights at Goldsmiths and a Valentine’s dinner at Hilly Fields Café, alongside the introduction of a new Syrian menu for 2026. It also reflects continued community impact, with new refugee volunteers joining from Mauritius and Ethiopia and an expanding volunteer network supporting the organisation’s next phase of growth.