Sun 22 April, 4-8pm (note later start time than previously advertised).
Scrumptious winter quiche
Join Walthamstow’s first fully vegan cafe and celebrate good food and good people.
Meet the new chefs. Eat the food. Find out the amazing things the Hornbeam does. Family Friendly drop-in. 4-8pm.
Open Decks at the Hornbeam: Bring your tunes, spin your tunes.
You can also bring along some vinyl and spin some tunes with Patrick Steele leading Open Decks. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never DJed – now’s your chance to take control of the music!
We’ll also be showing the Hornbeam JoyRiders / Cycle Sisters short film and sharing info about all the exciting things going on at the Hornbeam and Learning Lodge generally, as well as keeping you fed with scrumptious tasters.
Women join together to gain confidence cycling and enjoy the local area with Hornbeam JoyRiders.
We’re open over Easter – come for an Easter Treat!
We have a new Kitchen Dream Team – Lucy (chef behind the Edible Ethics blog) and Frankie – and there’s a few changes to the menu and the opening times….
WEEKEND OPENING is 10am-3.30pmfor food, cafe open till 5pm (including Easter Weekend, but closed as normal on Monday).
Full menu available, plus all day vegan brunch for just £8 on Saturday.
Brunch anyone
Sundays we will be serving brunch from 10-12 and then rolling over into our Vegan Roast with all the trimmings for £9.95 from 12.00-3.30pm.
Vegan Roast with all the trimmings
Menu to change with the seasons.
Introducing our new chef Lucy…. Lucy Johnson joins us from the Wulf and Lamb, having also been Head Chef for the ‘Real Junk Food Project‘, among others, in Sheffield. Some of you may have enjoyed her food at one of our Veganuary Hornbeam Nights supper-clubs. Check out her fantastic vegan cooking blog Edible Ethics .
She joins Frankie Ebdon who has cooked at the Hornbeam for over a year and between them they are cooking up some wonderful treats.
Come and meet Lucy, Frankie and others in the Hornbeam Team on our Earth Day Open Day and enjoy good food and company. We’ll have some wonderful treats for you to sample.
Eat, Drink and Celebrate with us! Hope to see you soon.
We are looking to recruit a new, dynamic, community-minded Hornbeam Coordinator.
This exciting part-time role (24.5 hours, expected to rise to 28) exists to coordinate the many community, low cost living and sustainability projects happening under the Hornbeam umbrella, both grant-funded and enterprise, and is a great opportunity for someone who has experience and passion for innovative community work.
It will not be the post holder’s role to deliver everything, but it will be their role to communicate, inspire and help organise those making things happen in our E17-based Hornbeam Cafe and Centre and our E4-based Hornbeam Learning Lodge in the Pimp Hall Nature Reserve.
All projects come under our Low Cost Living initiative, which seeks to facilitate and engage people in activities that support them to reduce their costs of living, including financial, health and environmental costs.
Current and planned activities and projects include Food Rescue, Healthy Eating, community development, JoyRiders Cycling Project, volunteer coordination, management of the Hornbeam Centre, and support to the Hornbeam cafe and Hornbeam Learning Lodge E4.
Enjoying zero waste lunch at our People’s Kitchen
The person we are looking for will need excellent communication, administrative and financial skills and experience working in a community organisation. They will be able to deal with all the challenges and excitement that working in a small, vibrant organisation brings.
We’re open with a new chef and February cheer on Sat 10 Feb
We’re doing some essential maintenance in the cafe kitchen, so the cafe will be closed from 22 January, opening again on Sat 10 Feb – with a new chef and lots of wonderful food and drink.
We are delighted that our JoyRiders project has secured a London Cycling Grant for three years.
Women join together to gain confidence cycling and enjoy the local area with Hornbeam JoyRiders.
This will enable us to continue delivering led rides for novice cyclists, organise group training and train up a new generation of Ride Leaders so that we can build a network of groups organising their own led rides in partnership with local schools and organisations.
Can you be a Ride Leader?
If you are a competent, experienced cyclist and would like to volunteer to lead rides, please email hornbeamjoyriders@gmail.com for more information or message us through Facebook.
Hornbeam JoyRiders out and about
We particularly need female cyclists available to lead or support rides on weekdays, and both male and female cyclists to help lead family rides in school holidays.
We can also provide Ride Leadership training in partnership with Cycle Confident and Waltham Forest (limited places available).
Interview date: 20 January 2018 Start date: 6 Feb 2018
Do you have experience in a professional kitchen? Are you competent working in a busy space, happy to cook alone but keen to be part of vibrant and growing team?
Are you enthusiastic, organised, flexible AND calm and available from 6 February 2018?
The Hornbeam Café is one of the longest running vegetarian cafes in London – recently turned fully vegan.
Our ethos is to support our local businesses as much as possible. This includes our coffee, soft drinks and alcoholic beverages. All our fresh ingredients are source as locally as possible, with most of our fruits and vegetables coming from local food enterprise Organiclea. We are also committed to a zero-waste policy with very minimal of our rubbish going to land fill.
Email a CV and covering letter to hornbeamcafe@gmail.com as soon as possible. In your covering letter, please tell us how you fit each point of the person specification – thank you.
We look forward to hearing from you!
NEW DATES:
Interview date: 20 January 2018
Start date: 6 Feb
Responsible for food preparation, cooking and cleanliness of the kitchen.
Reporting to: Café manager
Wage: £10.20 per hour 36-40 hours variable per week (4 days)
We met the Crowdfunder target! Thank you so much everyone who donated or supported with time and energy.
Thank you everyone!
More news shortly, just letting you know we met the target and Hornbeam Nights is going to be going from strength-to-strength supporting all you lovely people to put on amazing nights! Woo hoo!
Hornbeam Nights empowers aspiring chefs and budding musicians to engage within our diverse community. We support entrepreneurs and workshop facilitators who educate the community on important social and environmental issues.
Hornbeam Nights will be able to continue to host top notch evenings with a large sway of activism, entertainment & education, for a better community, environment & world. We will be able to keep giving to the community in the way the Hornbeam has been for many years, in an even more sustainable and supported way.
Do you want more confident, high quality local businesses? Please support us!
“The Hornbeam has been instrumental to the growth of my business: without their support and encouragement, it would have been far more difficult to gain the confidence and experience to try serving so many people at once. A valuable community asset…” Tegan – Pie N Mash Pop-up
Stories and Supper pop-ups provide a way for migrants to share their experiences, food and culture.
“Hornbeam nights are a genuinely unique part of Walthamstow life and offer great opportunities for people. I was made to feel confident and comfortable in trying things for the first time and I’m very grateful for that. The Hornbeam Cafe is a very encouraging environment for creativity, friendship and life.” Liam Emerson, Ra Ra Ramen Pop-up, DJ & musician
