St Mary Redcliffe Community Facilties Review

Ownership of building
Legal structure
Premises type
Opening hours/days
Usage- temporary or
permanent tenants
Facilities
Access Information
Current activities
St Mary Redcliffe Church leases the café space to ARA
for a peppercorn rent.
Partnership between ARA and St Mary Redcliffe
Church
Café, multi purpose function/meeting space
Café Mon- Fr 8am- 3pm
Regular Jazz Club Wednesday evenings
Sunday School
Very flexible times available
ARA is a permanent tenant for café hours
Arc Café provides volunteers in recovery from
addictions a wide range of education, training and
employment opportunities. It aims to break down the
stigma of recovery.
Jazz Club has run for 20 years and is very popular
Private functions are booked quite regularly
Catering kitchen, 65 capacity café area, 2 parking
spaces, toilets.
Licensed only when closed to public
Access is down steps. There is disabled toilet
following recent refurbishment to the toilets but
overall access is poor for anyone with mobility
problem and inaccessible for wheelchair users.
It is hoped this will be addressed via St Mary Redcliffe
Church’s planned Development project.
Café, Jazz Club, Sunday School, Choir Practice Friday
nights, one off events, ARA do some catering for
outside functions.
Users
Partners
85% of café users are local office workers
Builders and council workers get discount
Golden Key holds a drop in on Wednesday mornings
Some local residents. Barriers around physical access,
plus the inside of the café is not visible from the
outside which may inhibit less confident people from
making a first visit.
Congregation is very supportive
St Mary Redcliffe Church, VOSCUR, Golden Key,
Bristol Drugs Project, ARA, Connect Psychology,
Bluenotes Jazz Club
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