VIDEO: Loxwood church to open ‘family friendly’ part-time coffee shop

By The Newsroom
Published 17th Nov 2013, 15:00 BST
JPCT 131113 New cafe opening in Emmanuel Fellowship, Spy Lane, Loxwood. Hilary Vellacott, Pater Vellacott, Jean Tugwell and Julia Fisher. Photo by Derek MartinJPCT 131113 New cafe opening in Emmanuel Fellowship, Spy Lane, Loxwood. Hilary Vellacott, Pater Vellacott, Jean Tugwell and Julia Fisher. Photo by Derek Martin
JPCT 131113 New cafe opening in Emmanuel Fellowship, Spy Lane, Loxwood. Hilary Vellacott, Pater Vellacott, Jean Tugwell and Julia Fisher. Photo by Derek Martin
An article in the West Sussex County Times has helped to inspire a new community coffee shop in Loxwood.

Jean Tugwell, 66, was hoping to make the Emmanuel Fellowship chapel in Spy Lane a larger part of the community, when she read an article in this newspaper in January about a church coffee shop in Upper Beeding.

She said: “It was in the back of my mind, thinking ‘what is the best way to connect’, and I opened the paper and read that article and it was like - ‘this is it’!”

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The Spy Cafe, a part of the church and named after the road, will be open on Thursday afternoons.

JPCT 131113 New cafe opening in Emmanuel Fellowship, Spy Lane, Loxwood. Hilary Vellacott, Pater Vellacott, Jean Tugwell and Julia Fisher. Photo by Derek MartinJPCT 131113 New cafe opening in Emmanuel Fellowship, Spy Lane, Loxwood. Hilary Vellacott, Pater Vellacott, Jean Tugwell and Julia Fisher. Photo by Derek Martin
JPCT 131113 New cafe opening in Emmanuel Fellowship, Spy Lane, Loxwood. Hilary Vellacott, Pater Vellacott, Jean Tugwell and Julia Fisher. Photo by Derek Martin

Jean said she spoke to members of Upper Beeding Baptist Church after reading the article, and believed she could open a similar initiative.