The Cafe was repainted on the 16th and 17th of August - it's looking really good now!  Here are some pictures - but you need to come and look at the space to really see what it's like.   We're going to continue decorating tomorrow morning (10am, Saturday the 23rd August) - come and join us if you're interested in putting up shelves...

Cafe Project meeting to discuss:

- democratic process

- decorating (more decorating - this time properly announced and inviting everyone - oops!)

- notice boards, communication and cafe user groups

- freshers' week and training events

- publishing a termcard of events

- ARU freshers' events?

- library, free shop and book swapping

- accounting and money

- more?

Come and talk about these things if you can!

The Cambridge University Freshers' Fair is the best opportunity of the year for the Cafe Project to advertise its existance to the student population, and to recruit a whole load of volunteers!  We need a couple of volunteers at a time to stand behind our stall at the freshers fair in kelsey kerridge sports centre for the two days of the fair, giving out Cafe Project flyers and termcards, and collecting email addresses of freshers who sign down to our mailing list.  It would be good if plenty of us signed up to do this - so no-one has to spend hours and hours at the stall.  The slots have been put down as 'waiter' jobs, but really it's publicising at the fair.

---The Fair goes on for 2 days - Tuesday the 7th and Wednesday the 8th of October - there are volunteer slots for both.---

*The times of the volunteer slots are approximate, as the timetable has not yet been finalised by CUSU*

This year, CUSU Welfare wants to start tackling some of the taboo subjects that Welfare Campaigns deal with: ‘Why are we living through a sexual health epidemic in this country?’, ‘How can we promote positive body image and tackle eating disorders?’, ‘How does student depression affect studies?’.  To truly tackle these issues we need to start understanding them from the grass roots.  Every week, CUSU Welfare will be posing controversial questions to do with a range of issues and invite you to come and discuss them with us.  The cafe project is hosting it: helping us bring together students and the local community and get to grips with welfare issues affecting our society today.  For more information email welfare@cusu.cam.ac.uk or come along, Wednesdays from 5-6.30 during term time (15^th October to 3^rd December).

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The Café Project is completely volunteer-run -- and we always need more volunteers: to serve in the café, to bake cakes, to decorate the space, and to manage and plan various aspects of running the café. Volunteering is fun -- come and join us! If you'd like to be part of the project (or if you already are), please sign up and join our mailing list!

This is the launch of the Café Project website at cafeproject.org! Hopefully, this site will assist the running of the project in the times to come.

All this would not have been possible without the help of my friends Timwi and Roman, who are hosting our website on their server free of charge. Thanks so much! Timwi has also spent countless hours setting up the underlying software and writing lots of excellent, customised code for the Café Project. If you like the dynamic features of the website (in particular the volunteer time-slot/role system, or the café mailing list subscription system), please send him an email: <cafeproject[AT]timwi.de>.