Swanage and Purbeck Development Trust Community Cafe Appeal

Help us bring a new Community Café to life in Swanage! ☕🌱 
 
Swanage and Purbeck Development Trust (SPDT) need your support to open a brand-new Community Café at the Focus Centre – a wellbeing hub for Swanage and the surrounding villages. 
 
This café will offer so much more than just great coffee. It’ll be a warm, welcoming place to meet friends, make new connections, and find support, while also giving local organisations a space to share what they do. Even better, it will be run by Allsort’d CIC, a local social enterprise doing incredible work. 
 
We’re also dreaming big for the Focus Centre’s front garden – transforming it into a friendly, wildlife-loving outdoor space where visitors, neighbours, and passers-by can relax, chat, and enjoy being together. 
 
SPDT is a local community charity working to reduce poverty, ill health, and social isolation, and to improve access to jobs, arts, culture, and wellbeing services. Allsort’d, based right here in Swanage, supports adults with learning disabilities and autism by building skills, confidence, and independence through being actively involved in their community, supporting, volunteering, helping and collaboration 
 
The new café will be a place where everyone is welcome – helping to reduce loneliness, offering a gentle gateway to wellbeing services, and giving community groups a friendly place to meet. It will also provide training and employment opportunities for people with learning disabilities, making a real difference to real lives. 
 
Families using Explorers Childcare and the Family Hub will have a relaxed space to connect, and the café will help keep the Focus Centre sustainable for years to come. 
 
💛 Your donation can help turn the Focus Centre into a buzzing, inclusive hub for the whole community. 
 
Every contribution brings us one step closer – thank you for being part of it. 
 
A donation of any size will help us open our café in 2026!  
 
Your donation could pay for….. 
 
£10 A plant to attract butterflies to our lovely garden 
£15  Kitchen utensils for the Allsort’d crew to hone their cookery skills!   
£20  A planter for fresh herbs 
£30  A toaster for those all-important snacks!  
£40   Gardening tools for our volunteers 
£50  Installing a bird box, making our front garden great for wildlife as well as people!     
£100  Training for a young person to gain work experience in our cafe