It’s ‘anchors aweigh’ as a Pembroke Dock day centre
steps into a key support and supply role for the
town’s new visitor attraction, the Fleets to Flying
Boats Centre and its Glass House Coffee Shop.
The catering training kitchen at Pembrokeshire County
Council’s Anchorage Social Activity Centre - which
caters for adults with learning disabilities - is
supplying cakes and sandwiches which are on sale at the
centre and coffee shop, which opened last Thursday.
This is the latest initiative by the Pembroke Dock
Sunderland Trust and the next step in their exciting
heritage plans for the town. It follows on from the
great success of the Trust’s Flying Boat Centre, visited
by 22,000 in three years.
Located in the Fleet Surgeon’s House, an elegant
Georgian building by the original gated entrance to the
Royal Dockyard, the centre and café are run by the
Sunderland Trust’s award-winning team of volunteers.
They are open Tuesdays to Saturdays inclusive, 10 am - 4
pm.
“This is an excellent link up,” said Sunderland Trust
Administrator Judith Davies. “The Anchorage Centre is
very close at hand and its training kitchen has all the
facilities for food preparation. The cakes and
sandwiches already supplied have been very well received
by our customers - the Victoria sponge being a special
favourite.”
Patrick Speake, Training Co-ordinator at The Anchorage,
added: “It’s exciting for us to be involved with the
Fleets to Flying Boats Centre and to supply our home
made cakes and sandwiches. We have provided buffets in
the past and this is a new opportunity for us.”
The Anchorage Training Kitchen is funded by
Pembrokeshire County Council and Pembrokeshire COAST
(part of the COASTAL project) and provides training and
employment opportunities for individuals. It is
part-funded by the European Social Fund under the
Convergence Programme for West Wales and the Valleys
through the Welsh Government.
Caption:
First delivery from The Anchorage catering training
kitchen is made by Training Co-ordinator Patrick Speake
(left) and Andrew Purser to Sunderland Trust
Administrator Judith Davies and volunteer Eileen
Williams.
PICTURE: Martin Cavaney Photography.
From: John Evans, Pembroke Dock Sunderland Trust, 01646
684220