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8
2010
New Opportunities at The Treehouse
Author: admin
Hello everyone!
Sometimes Bradford Centre for Non-Violence and Treehouse Cafe operate in such a bubble of activity, energy and daily elbow grease that we forget to publicly open our arms and welcome new ideas, people and enthusiasm into the fold. Today is not one of those days. The Centre would not exist if it were not for the passion people put into it. But this is not a one way process- getting involved at the BCNV can open up a whole new world of friendship, job experience, shared skills and perhaps most importantly, a renewed belief in the power of small collectives to cooperatively create brilliant things. Our doors are open, come join in the fun!
Cafe Co-ordinator position.
We are a pleased to announce that a new position for Cafe Co-ordinator is now available. This is a paid position for 10 hours a week, incorporating a day coordinating the cafe and extra hours for other tasks in helping to run the Treehouse. We’re looking for people with a passion for ethical cooking, experience in cafe work or large catering and awareness of the BCNV and it’s politics. Email us at info@treehousecafe.org or pop in to the cafe for a applicant’s pack. Ideal candidates will be available to start work soon and continue after the summer break into next September and the following year.
Workgroup.
The BCNV workgroup is a mixture of cafe workers and volunteers, Directors and people who want to help out with the general running of the Centre. We are currently very keen to get some new people involved. If you’d like to find out about or pitch in with any of following things, we would love to have you:
- Publicity – Flyer designing and printing, videos, internet, website updating.
- Outside Catering – Getting outside catering jobs, cooking lots of lovely food outside of the normal cafe.
- Finance – helping with funding bids, doing accounts, helping with pricing and wages.
- Events – organizing gigs, parties and meals. Helping other people to make sure there events are as brilliant as possible.
- Health and Safety / maintenance – doing odd jobs around the place, fixing stuff, liaising with the Church about repairs, helping train people in Food Hygiene and making sure we are up to speed with the latest Health and Safety laws.
Shop.
You may have noticed recently that our shop has started expanding. If you have any ideas or time to help make this even better, do get in touch. A few of us would like to see some kind of small-scale food co-op being run independently, but find our time devoted to cafe itself, perhaps you could spearhead such a thing?! There is currently a food co-op meeting sporadically to make collective orders, but perhaps a regularly re-stocked shop front is also in order?
Children’s Peace Library / Yellow room.
There’s currently some exciting rejuvenation going on with the Children’s Peace Library and the back room we affectionately call ‘Yellow’. Perhaps you have some ideas about how the space and the resources we have at the BCNV could be better used? Any budding librarians, decorators, interior designers or people with lots of nice furniture they’d like to give us, get in touch!
Events.
As mentioned in the Workgroup section, events are a vital part of the BCNV. We’re currently making a push to get more people involved in running music nights, meals, zine fairs, poetry readings – anything! – All ideas welcome. Email us, or pop in to the cafe / a meeting for a chat.
Festivals.
We’re currently waiting to hear back about which festivals the BCNV might be able to send people to through the brilliant Worker’s Beer Company. This means going to a festival for free, working a shift a day (with wages going to the BCNV!) and getting to dance, sing and party the rest of the time! Winner! Let us know if you are interested so we can divvy up the places when we know which festivals we will be working at.
Community Cook-Off!
I’m hoping to do a monthly video at the Treehouse showcasing the best of Bradford’s cooking talent.
Nobody cares about Jamie Oliver or Hugh Fearnley-blahblahblah, I’d much rather see what you guys cook when you need to show off. The only rules are that is has to be filmed at the Treehouse (for ease), be vegetarian and use as much ethical produce as you can muster. You can define ‘ethical’ yourselves, whether it means healthy, something anyone can try, vegan, locally sourced or whatever. It’s about showing how tasty, ethical food dosnt have to be expensive or endorsed by celebrity chefs. We’ll be putting the videos on our website so people can try out your recipes, and maybe even getting them broadcast on the Big Screen Bradford! Email to pitch your recipe ideas.
Also, in a flagrant rip off of our friends in Leeds, we’re hoping to host a ‘Ready Steady Skip!’ evening sometime soon, where two teams spend a day skipping for tasty food and then an hour cooking up what they have found into a meal for them and the audience. Let us know if that’s something you fancy…
Seasonal 3 course Sunday Roast 31/01/10 12-4pm
