Join us in the Stove Cafe where you can engage with Ben Walters (Dr Duckie) current “hope machine” project, Badge Cafe – a crafty utopian hangout where you can relax, create and connect by making badges out of old books and magazines.
Following on from our AGM, join Ben as we put old books and mags to badgemaking use. Relax, create and connect with some welcoming, easy fun.
Swing by for five minutes or bed in for an hour or two.
No cost, no pressure. You might surprise yourself.
Drop-in event – no need to book!
Ben Walters (Dr Duckie)Badge Cafe – relax, create and connect!
We’re looking for an energetic and enthusiastic person, who’s full of beans, to join our busy cafe & venue team.
The Stove Cafe is a social enterprise, community hub and arts & events venue in the heart of Dumfries High Street.
Serving as the HQ of the Stove Network, the Stove Cafe, serves as the ‘front door’ to our eclectic range of projects and events. From open mics to sign painting, bread clubs and live music, we facilitate and house a range of creative community events made with, for, by and about Doonhamers, old and new.
If you’re a team player who loves communicating with customers and delivering the highest levels of customer service, who wants to get involved in the delivery of our dynamic programme of events and cares about creating an enjoyable atmosphere for customers and staff, this might be for you…
About The Job
Job Title: Cafe & Venue Team Member
Hours: We’re offering a minimum of 15 hours /week over six days; Monday – Saturday including some evenings and weekends.
Pay: Up to £9.50/hr
About You
You’re a strong team player with a can-do, positive attitude with excellent customer service and communication skills, who is also comfortable working independently. With the ability to work under pressure and to prioritise in a fast-paced environment, you’ll be able to multitask, follow instruction and have great attention to detail, all the while putting the customer first.
Responsibilities
Establishing welcoming and relaxed atmosphere
Taking orders and engaging with customers
Coffee making
Food preparation
Loading/unloading dishwasher
Maintaining a high standard of hygiene throughout the cafe, including the bathroom
Knowing and understanding the menu
Some light physical lifting will be required
Supporting set up and delivery of evening events and activities
Desired Experience (but not essential)
Experience in providing high-quality customer service
Barista/coffee making experience
Experience in food preparation
Food and hygiene certificate
Our Cafe & Venue team are responsible for delivering the best possible experience to our customers, whether serving food and drinks to our customers or supporting the production team during events, we’re looking of the right person who can support our mission to support our community wherever we can.
How to Apply
Please send us a short covering letter explaining why you feel this role is the right one for you and an up-to-date CV to: [email protected]
Closing Date for applications is midnight 31st May 2022.
Welcome back Dumfries. This month we’re ready to open our doors once again with a month-long programme of inspiring events from conversations to workshops, creative activities and talks alongside the long-awaited return of our monthly film night Reel To Real, as well as the unmissable Brave New Words. We want to be extra safe as we navigate our way back into the world of live events so the way of doing things is a little bit different. First of all, you’ll need a ticket. You can see the full list of events here, so if you’d like to attend, you’ll need to book your place. And we’re not out of the woods yet so we’ll have some extra safety measures in place when you arrive, to protect everyone in our community.
This month it’s all about testing new activity. We want to see how we can have a blended approach to our live events. So whether that’s a mix of live streaming to walks outdoors, we want to play with new ways of coming back together, that’s both safe and creative. Who knows, some of it might stick. So why not join us as we retrace our steps back to the world of live events…
Dumfries Fountain Project
The Dumfries Fountain Project goes live this month with the first of our workshops with writer JoAnne McKay, and a conversation evening exploring the history and heritage of the fountain!
Creative Spaces
Creative Spaces welcomes you back to our blended model of bi-monthly workshops we shall be exploring the link between mental wellbeing and creativity through the concept of the Tortured Artist.
Brave New Words
You heard us right, it’s back! We’re going live on the last Friday of the month, in The Stove Cafe and The Stove Network’s Youtube channel.
Reel to Real Cinema
This month we are discussing film and food in The Stove Cafe with filmmaker Zev Robinson, and his short film The Glasgow Diet
We’re looking for an energetic and enthusiastic person, who’s full of beans, to join our busy café team. Are you a team player who loves communicating with customers and delivering the highest levels of customer service? You might just be who we’re looking for!
A Bit About Us
We are a not-for-profit, inclusive café based in the heart of Dumfries where we offer great food, amazing coffee, and the best service. The community is at the heart of everything we do, and we help support the wider aims and values of The Stove Network, a creatively led organisation which makes events and opportunities for our local community.
We’re proud to provide a warm welcome to every customer that walks through the door, and we work hard to create an enjoyable atmosphere for customers and staff. Would you like to work with us?
About The Job
We’re offering a minimum of 10 hours /week @ £8.91/hr over four days; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
About You
You’re a strong team player with a can-do, positive attitude with excellent customer service and communication skills. The ability to work under pressure and to prioritise in a fast-paced environment, able to multitask, follow instruction and have great attention to detail.
Responsibilities
Establishing welcoming and relaxed atmosphere
Taking orders and engaging with customers
Coffee making
Food preparation (training provided)
Loading/unloading dishwasher
Maintaining a high standard of hygiene throughout the cafe, including the bathroom
Following all Covid-19 guidelines in place
Knowing and understanding the menu
Some light physical lifting will be required
Desired Experience (some training may be provided)
We’ve spent more time at home than we ever thought we would. What sorts of things did you get up to during the past 14 months? Maybe you started painting again, or learned how to knit, or made collages to send to your friends or started taking photographs on your phone. We’d love to celebrate the little acts of creativity we have all made at home, and share them in our café.
The Stove Café and the Conversing Building project would like you to submit or loan your artworks to us for a Community Café Exhibition in June 2021. Works can be 2D or 3D, measuring no more than 60cm in any direction please. All artworks will be displayed in our public café so please make sure that the work you submit is suitable for all ages.
How to Submit
Artworks can be dropped off to The Stove Café during regular opening hours Wed-Sat, 10-3pm, but please make sure you have included your contact details so that we can return your work to you. If we receive a large number of submissions we may not be able to display all works. Please do not submit more than two artworks per person.
If you have any queries about whether your creative work will be suitable, please drop us an email to [email protected], or pop into the Stove café and ask one of our team.
All artworks must be submitted by Monday 31st May 2021.
The exhibition will run from the 2nd to the 30th June 2021.
The Stove has always been a responsive and community-led organisation, we care deeply about our team, our membership and the community we serve. The current public health situation with Coronavirus is a serious challenge to all of us and the way we do things as a society. We have decided to take a series of measures which are listed below and would ask everyone to have a read of these and pass on the message to anyone who you think might need to know.
However, thinking about the situation in its entirety, our team’s decision is not to leap in to immediate responses. Rather, we plan to wait, be watchful and listen to those around us and work to support the efforts of the council and other agencies who are taking a lead role in managing the challenges that face us all. The Stove has always been a future-facing and responsive organisation, we will make available all of our capacity, knowledge and experience and look for opportunities for positive action and change for our community.
Public Events
From today (Monday 16th March), all Stove programming for public events is cancelled until further notice. This means that all events in our calendar that are open to a public audience will not be going ahead. We will be reviewing this policy as official advice and guidance is available as the COVID-19 pandemic develops.
Room Bookings at The Stove
For outside groups using the Stove for their own private room bookings, we will continue to offer this facility for groups. We will be making some detailed changes to the way we use rooms and protocols for hygiene. These details will be made available to individual groups prior to their event.
The Stove Cafe
We are aware of the fast changing situation with regard to cafes and bars. For the time being we will keep the Stove Café open. We’ve discussed this with our staff who feel comfortable and confident. Everybody at the Stove feels that the community function of the café is important to people and that we should offer this facility for as long as possible. We will be keeping a close eye on national guidance and anticipate that the café may have to close in the near future, until then we have reduced the number of tables to allow folk to remain further apart and introduced additional hygiene measures around payment systems etc. The coffee will remain awesome!
In the meantime please stay safe and look after each other – if there is anything that you feel The Stove could be doing or you would like to contribute to our thinking about how to act in the future, please do get in touch.
