Latest News
- Campaign for a lift at Loughborough Junction Station
- The Platform Cafe’s Cost of Living Programme Winter 2024
- Say No to the Hinton Road Development
- Social Prescribing Day with Thriving Fiveways at the Akerman Centre
- Maude and Hazel’s Craft Workshops, Tuesdays at Carnegie Library
- Thriving Fiveways Call-Out for Community Event Ideas
- LJ Neighbourhood Forum Wednesday 28 February 2024 at 7pm at The Platform Cafe
- Co-living planning application for Hinton Road has arrived
- LJAG Away Day 28th January 2024
- Cost of Living Programme at The Platform Cafe
The Platform Cafe
The Platform Café is a community space in the heart of Loughborough Junction, providing healthy, nutritious food and a welcome space to feel at home.
The cafe was founded in 2015 as an off-shoot of Loughborough Farm. Each day the cafe prepares homemade lunches using freshly picked seasonal produce grown at Loughborough Farm, as well as surplus donations.
Along with offering delicious, healthy and homemade food, all income they generate is reinvested in social impact work, including community events, outreach, workshops, volunteer programmes, training and work placement opportunities for local young people experiencing barriers to employment, and emergency food provisions for those in need.
The café building used to be a derelict, public toilet in Wyck Gardens, a small Lambeth park. We are proud to have activated this disused space, turning it into a valuable community asset.
Opening times: Tuesday-Saturday 9am-3pm.
Find out more on the cafe’s website www.theplatformcafe.org or follow them on Instagram.