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