The Armstrong Café

18/02/2026

It's that time again already! This Friday

Coffee in the Cafe is on Friday! Come join us, 10-11.30am.
Good cake, great coffee, lovely company and lots for children to do.

03/02/2026

On Friday morning, it's Coffee in the Cafe again! We had such a great time at the first one. Hope to see even more of you coming for a catch up together, or bringing little ones for a play.

Coffee in the Cafe returns at 10am on Friday 6th February. We had a great time at the first session - we really hope you can join us for the next one! Everyone is welcome.

27/01/2026

Whether you have littles or not, our twice-monthly chance for cake and a natter is a friendly place to spend a bit of time

Coffee in the Cafe returns at 10am on Friday 6th February. We had a great time at the first session - we really hope you can join us for the next one! Everyone is welcome.

27/01/2026

Can anyone help us please? We have a family who are in urgent need of a double pram and boys clothes aged 3-4 years. Please message us or comment if you can help

03/01/2026

In our sort out of the remodelled play area, we have some kids and baby toys available for free to good homes. Collection from The Armstrong Centre on Monday 5th between 11am-2pm.
You'd be very welcome to stay for lunch with Beverley Baptist Church Warm Welcome space - the new play area is open!

02/01/2026

Beverley Baptist Church would like to invite you.

03/10/2025

Come for coffee and cake this morning and help us support Macmillan

Come to The Armstrong Centre this morning for our Macmillan coffee morning!

13/08/2025

We'd love to see your kiddos next week!

It's a week until Holiday Club 2025! We have some places left for the three days, across the ages. The booking link is below! We hope to see your children there for a lot of fun as we journey through the mountains!
https://forms.gle/VYKoJeqvTmqFWER88

04/08/2025

Holiday Club is 2 weeks away!

Booking is open for Holiday Club 2025! Book your space now for your pirmary school children. Email [email protected] for your spaces.

01/08/2025

Good morning, lovely folks. How are you all? We wanted to invite your fabulous children to our Holiday Club this summer. We'd love to see some of you.

We are really excited to open booking for our 2025 holiday club, starting in just under 3 weeks' time. This year, we are running our holiday club for primary aged children (as at September 2025) from Wed 20th Aug-Fri 22nd Aug, 10am-12pm. Numbers are limited, so get your children booked in asap and let your friends and family know.

Email us on [email protected] to book your place.

We look forward to seeing you and your children this summer.

14/05/2025

Dear Friends of the Armstrong Café,

Thank you to everyone who has expressed their sadness and shock at the news that Armstrong Café will be closing in its current form. We understand how much the café means to the community, which has made this an incredibly difficult decision.

When we set up the café, our hope was to create a welcoming space—a valuable resource especially for those on the edges of our community. We are deeply grateful that, for a time, it has been able to do just that.

Opening soon after the last lockdown, we aimed for the café to cover its own costs: that the income from food and drinks would be enough to pay for supplies and staff wages. In the early days, it almost managed to do so. However, over the past 18 months, the shortfall has steadily increased, and unfortunately, it continues to grow.

Beverley Baptist Church is a small fellowship of around 40 members. We give what we can from our own pockets, but there’s a limit to how much we can contribute to sustain the café in its current form.

That said, we are hopeful—and prayerful—that this is not the end. Rather, a pause. We’re exploring how we might continue providing some of the services in a different, more sustainable way. Perhaps by finding volunteers to help run a scaled-back version of the café a few times a week or partnering with other organisations who can use the café space to offer similar services. At this stage, nothing is certain, but we are trusting that something new and equally valuable will take shape in time.

And just for clarity—the Armstrong Centre itself is not closing.
We currently intend to keep running the Monday morning Warm Spaces group, the Friday Toddler group, and the monthly Seniors group, although there may be some changes to catering services provided.
The Centre will also continue to be used by a wide variety of groups every week.

Thank you again for all the love, support, and appreciation you’ve shown for Armstrong Café. If you’d like to stay informed about future plans, one-off events, or if we’re able to restart regular activities, please join our mailing list.

And if you have ideas or suggestions for how we might move forward, we would love to hear from you. While we can’t promise to implement every idea, we promise to consider them all.

With gratitude,
The Armstrong Centre & Beverley Baptist Teams