Vacancy : Café Manager

We have a vacancy for a CAFÉ MANAGER (PART TIME) for Café Siena, to continue to grow this successful, friendly community facility.

Are you an enthusiastic, self-motivated person with experience of working in a café/kitchen?  You will :-

  • Manage café day-to-day operations, currently open Thursdays and Fridays (10.00-2.00pm)
  • Prepare and cook snacks, drinks and meals
  • Order all food
  • Work to agreed budgets
  • Oversee and train volunteer helpers, including some with learning disabilities

A Food Safety qualification and knowledge of relevant legislation required, and a friendly, innovative, and flexible approach!  DBS checks will be taken.

14 hours a week at £12.20 per hour, with extra hours by agreement.

A detailed job description can be found here.

Please request a Job Application form by emailing us.

Applications to:
info@stcatherines-tilehurst.org.uk
no later than 31st July 2023.   Following successful interview, work will start by end August or earlier.

Café Siena – closed Thursday 13th July

We regret that Café Siena will be closed on all day on Thursday 13th July.

This is because interviews for the post of Vicar are taking place, with a number of different activities taking place in Church over the day.

We hope you understand that this is an important event for St Catherine’s, and your prayers for the whole process of appointing a new Vicar would be appreachiated.

We are open as usual on Friday 14th July.

Summer Services 2023

Throughout July and August, we will be holding the Ten O’clock Service outdoors (weather permitting), following the success of previous years.

As 2023 is a coronation year, our theme is Kings from the Bible, some well-known, others more obscure, seeing what we can learn about kingship and exploring what that means to us today.

A short, spoken service of communion will follow, and refreshments will be served in the hall. You may wish to bring a comfortable chair or rug as well as appropriate clothing.

Friday Friends Programme – June & July ’23

Friday Friends meets weekly from 2.00 – 4.00pm every Friday, price £3.50 (carers free), offering a mix of talks, light exercise, singing together, table top games or craft activities in a safe, warm and friendly environment – with tea and cakes.

Why not arrive early and enjoy a meal in Café Siena.

See below for details of the program for June & July:-

June 2nd Cards & Games
9th Curling with Bill
16th Beetle Drive
23rd MakeAbility
30th Graham Horn – Reading Abbey talk
July 7th Cards & Games
14th Seated exercises with Juliet, then Cards & Games
21st Flower Arranging with Julie Crawford
28th Singalong with Richard & friends.

Thy Kingdom Come 2023

Thy Kingdom Come (TKC) is a global ecumenical prayer movement that invites Christians around the world to pray from Ascension to Pentecost for more people to come to know Jesus.

As we have in previous years, St Catherine’s is joining in with this initiative, starting on Thursday 18th May through to Pentecost Sunday (28th May). For the first 10 days, there will be a prayer meeting in the Garden Room from 7 – 7:30pm. On the last day – Pentecost Sunday – there will be an evening service in church, also starting at 7pm.

Join us at St Catherine’s on Sunday May 14th to learn more and pick up your TKC Novena.

Youth Group – Pick ‘n’ Mix – Summer Programme

Pick and Mix – our youth group for 11-18 year olds meets fortnightly Fridays during term time, starting at 7:45pm in St Catherine’s Hall. £1 per person.

Teens of all faiths and none are very welcome

If you are 11-18 and want to join us we would love to have you.

For more information please e-mail us.