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- Success for Council's anti-fraud team
- How much power are you wasting?
- Protect your home from thieves this summer
- Young builders needed for child's-size city!
- Rugby World Cup success is 'outstanding' for Twickenham
- Crofters fashion show wows guests
- Curtain comes up on summer theatrical spectacular
- Karate kids get their kicks at Hampton Sports and Fitness Centre
- Performing on the edge
- Young people shape plan for future of children's services
- Car club membership rockets as residents save thousands
- Operation Lockout improves bike security
- Dodgy drivers warned over parking fraud
- Are you willing to gamble on the cocaine lottery?
- Free parking boost for businesses
- Your chance to display artwork at the Riverside Gallery
- Now it's over to Tomasz for the weather...
- London Youth Games team celebrated at the stoop
- Game, set and match, for free!
- Royal approval for pupils' bespoke deckchairs
- Raising the flag for borough's parks
- Businesses get greener thanks to the Council
- Borough blooms under the spotlight
- Play cool in parks this summer
- A snapshot of Richmond from around the world
- Land speed record holder sets challenge for school pupils
- Bike ride promotes cycling to secondary schools
- Third runway "will not reduce stacking"
- Borough's cyclists praised for wheely great challenge result
- Cycle starter packs launched to get Richmond pedalling
- PwC to help Council improve efficiency
- Earl of Wessex reopens 'Magnificent' Terrace Gardens
- Summer of larks in borough parks
- Lazy drivers are pushing up crime - police
- Team Richmond Shines at London Youth Games
- Young people needed for youth magazine
- Council acts to tackle cigarette litter
- Top award for borough crime team
- Family entertainment in Terrace Gardens
- Council kick starts regeneration of Barn Elms
- Top awards for young artists
- Results announced for £1million youth facilities vote
- Council thanks Father Thames Trust for donations
- Demont confirmed as principal designate of proposed academy
- Great British inventing praised
- Pupils excellence celebrated
- Café sunshine opens on Twickenham Riverside
Release Date: 02/07/2009
Cafe sunshine opens on Twickenham Riverside
Visitors to Twickenham Riverside will once again be able enjoy a range of drinks, snacks and light meals, when a new cafe opens its doors to the public on Monday 6 July.
Café Sunshine, run by Richmond Council, will be staffed by people with learning disabilities, and support catering staff. It will remain open until the re-development work on Twickenham Riverside begins.
Commenting on the opening Cllr Denise Carr, Cabinet Member for Adult Services, Health and Housing, said:
“I am delighted that Café Sunshine is open for business. The council has run a café for many years staffed by people with learning disabilities, and this new location will expand the opportunities available for work and independence for this group.
“The café will be open seven days a week and I hope people take advantage of the great service on offer.”
Café Sunshine will be open Monday-Friday, 9.30am - 5.30pm and, 9am - 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
The café has been running successfully for over a year at the Business Centre in Grimwood Road, Twickenham which is home to Power Employment, the Council service that helps people with a learning disability find work.
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