Root & Branch Community Café

02/10/2026

Yum yummy yum yum!!!! 😋
🎨 EAT ~ MEET ~ CREATE
🌳 Root & Branch Community Café
📍 Weardale Methodist Church School Rooms, Stanhope

30/09/2026

This week at Root & Branch 💛

🎨 BYO Craft Day & Craft Table Offerings - Creative Roots
Thursday 1st October | 10am–1pm | FREE
The table is yours! Bring your own project, or try something from the table — crochet, macramé, origami and more. Everyone welcome.

🎵 Playroom Session - 🎵 Music Makers
Thursday 1st October | 1.30–2.30pm | FREE
Explore music through songs, rhythm and instruments in this relaxed session, perfect for little ones to move, sing and make some noise together. No experience needed, just come along and join in.

🧸 Roots & Shoots Playroom open both days, 9.30am–3pm.

🍲 This week's menu!

Soups
🥔 Creamy roast potato (GF) | 🍅 Greek lentil & tomato V (lentils may contain gluten)

Main
🍝 Roast veggie pasta with nutty pesto & baked ricotta (GF/V option available)

Baked fresh
🧀 Cheese scones | 🍇 Fruit scones

Sweet things
🍠 Sweet potato & ginger cake with cream cheese frosting | Cardamom, coffee & chocolate chip blondie | 🍐 Pear & chocolate almond cake (GF) | Apple & sultana muffins (V)

Come and find us at Weardale Methodist Church, Stanhope, DL13 2UP
Open Thursday & Friday, 9.30am–3pm 🌿

28/09/2026

Come and get crafty this week...

Thu 1st Oct 10am-1pm
BYO Craft Day & Craft Table Offerings - Creative Roots
The table is yours, with everyone and anyone!
Bring your own, or we'll have some crafts out on the table for you to try, from crochet and macramé to origami. Or give us a shout about what you'd like to try and we'll see if we can find a crafty person to show us all how 💛🧡🩷

Thu 1st Oct 1:30-2:30pm
👣 Roots & Shoots Playroom
Playroom Session - 🎵 Music Makers
Explore music through songs, rhythm and instruments in this relaxed session, perfect for little ones to move, sing and make some noise together. No experience needed, just come along and join in the fun.
With Bekah Sawyer
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We’d like to thank and acknowledge Happiness Hubs Fund, the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NENC ICB) and Pioneering Care Partnership (P*P) for helping fund these current craft and activity sessions in our Creative Roots Programme.
And a big thank you to Point North for funding the set-up and the programming for the first year of our Roots & Shoots Playroom and Playroom Session Programme

24/09/2026

Autumn days are here; come along and have a cosy time at Root & Branch! Open Thursdays and Fridays 9:30-3pm with something for everyone to enjoy - crafts, excellent food and drink, good company and even a playroom for the little ones!

24/09/2026

☕️ 👋 🍰 EAT ~ MEET ~ CREATE 🍰 👋 ☕️
Todays Menu and craft with Leanne Buck Hippy Lizard
FREE CRAFT - Collage Pictures

23/09/2026

And as if the fantastic craft offer this week wasn’t enough, check out this delicious menu!

Parsnip and rosemary soup GF (V option available)

Green pasta soup V (GF available)

Veggie thai green curry and rice GF/V

Chocolate cake
Apple and blackberry pie
Banana chia seed cake V
Plum and ginger cake GF

And the usual selection of scones, toasties and more!

23/09/2026

23/09/2026

Well finally here it is.... 🤩
Our Creative Roots & Roots & Shoots Playroom Sessions from September to December!

SIGN-UP here https://mailchi.mp/bbfc08f4433f/subscribe-to-weardale-togethers-newsletter to keep up to date with more of what's on

Welcome to our wonderful array of crafts and activities.
Firstly, the biggest thank you possible to all our wonderful crafters and session leaders that make this happen, we love you!

Do keep an eye on our page and hopefully our new website (should be up and running soon) for any changes and additions to this jam packed season, running from now until Christmas!

Most things are free and drop in, but for those that require booking and paying, please follow this link or QR code. And again, if it's not there yet, it will be soon, so keep your eyes peeled!

BOOK 🎟️ ticketsource.com/weardale-together
facebook.com/WeardaleTogether
facebook.com/RootAndBranchCommunityCafe
facebook.com/groups/rootsandshootsplayroom
weardaletogether.org.uk
[email protected]

Alejandra Vicencio | Caroline Sawyer | Leanne Buck Hippy Lizard | Bekah Sawyer | Hollie-ann Coleman | St Margaret's Centre | Sarah Genner | Anna Osborne Felt Curious | Eve Stocks | Tania Prescott | Jackie Carnell | Eleanor Alborough Curlew Baskets |

We’d like to thank and acknowledge Happiness Hubs Fund, the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NENC ICB) and Pioneering Care Partnership (P*P) for helping fund these current craft and activity sessions in our Creative Roots Programme.

And a big thank you to Point North for funding the set-up and the programming for the first year of our Roots & Shoots Playroom and Playroom Session Programme

21/09/2026

👀 Check out these beautiful FREE activities on offer this week alongside our scrumptious food!

🌳 Wild Ones Woodland Session
Thu 24th Sep 10-11:30
@ Stanhope Barrington CofE Primary School
Join us in our new Forest School area, cosying up under the trees, exploring nature, and making simple nature crafts. Perfect for a crisp autumn morning! We'll meet there, Stanhope Barrington School, follow the signs. We'll start with a gathering song, before settling into some play or an activity, then a story together. After a campfire snack, we'll head off for some more exploring, finishing up with a goodbye song. An opportunity to slow down, connect with nature, and enjoy a peaceful autumn morning outdoors. We now have a toilet on site!
With Forest School Leader Caroline Sawyer

🖼️ FREE CRAFT - Collage Pictures
Thu 24th Sep 10am-1pm
Come along and create your very own piece of art. Using upcycled magazines Leanne of Hippy Lizard will help you to collage your artwork into a colourful picture that you can then put up on your wall or give as a unique gift.
With Leanne Buck - Hippy Lizard

🔥 Campfire Gathering
Fri 25th Sep 10am-12:30pm
Join us around the campfire for a relaxed time in the woods. At the heart of our gathering will be cooking together - a warming veggie stew (bring something for the pot) and simple bread twists over the embers - but there’ll also be space to try lighting a small fire with flint and steel, create art inspired by nature or simply relax in a hammock. It’s a chance to slow down, connect with others, and mark the end of summer and the beginning of autumn in good company.
With Caroline Sawyer

19/09/2026

More food posts... 👀 😋
I'm going to kidnap Cheryl and keep her in my kitchen at home!!! 😆