The Croft Tearoom

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The Croft Tearoom is a Catering Social Enterprise consisting of a community based Tearoom, Local Foods Shop, Outside Catering Service and community Focal Point for local information, events, history and heritage. We are based in old St Mary Cray High Street and we specialise in traditional home-cooked foods & delicious home-baking prepared in our small open-plan kitchen using locally sourced produce from over 20 small producers & farms in Kent and surrounding counties. The Croft was set up as a social enterprise by Circa Ltd, a business established in Bromley since 1983, delivering recruitment & training services to unemployed young people. Circa bought the building which was derelict and gained planning consent to demolish and rebuild a brand new, architecturally designed, ECO building made of wood, using local builders & recycled materials and which mirrored the style of the 18th century buildings opposite. This not only created a lovely new building but also a new business which now brings income into St Mary Cray and is helping to kick start the regeneration of the southern end of the High Street. We created 4 new jobs (including a young person from the government’s ’Future Jobs Fund’) and 8 new volunteering opportunities for local people as well as work experience placements from local schools. We also offer space to local artists to display & sell their art work, pottery, jewellery, food produce, plants and other crafts. We offer a real alternative to the larger...