{"id":29649,"date":"2018-11-13T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T16:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=29649"},"modified":"2018-11-13T16:03:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T16:03:47","slug":"pentyrch-tea-room-closure-is-loss-to-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/11\/13\/pentyrch-tea-room-closure-is-loss-to-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentyrch tea room closure is &quot;loss to the community&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A POPULAR tea room which hosted community events in Pentyrch has closed its doors.<br \/>\nBethan Kate\u2019s Tearoom, formerly known as Lady Jane\u2019s tea room, closed last month after serving Pentyrch for over four years.<br \/>\nBethan Oakman\u2019s hobby of baking at home snowballed into a business when she received a grant from the Princes Trust.<br \/>\nDespite living just two doors away from the tearoom, the 31-year-old from Pentyrch found it through a Gumtree advert when its previous owner had to close it for personal reasons.<br \/>\n\u201cMy first cake business was from home and proved to be quite popular. When we saw the advert I said to my husband we have to go for it,\u201d said Bethan.<br \/>\nThe doors to the tearoom reopened in July 2017 and continued to be a firm favourite with the community.<br \/>\nBethan, who is expecting her first child, said it was \u201cnever an option to close it down\u201d but unfortunately the lease was unable to be renewed.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s bittersweet for me, I\u2019m excited to be having a baby but never thought there would be nothing there to come back to. It\u2019s a real shame, it was such a unique place with such an array of different people,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\n\u201cI suppose the biggest compliment I can take from the whole thing is how much people loved it.\u201d<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29651\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/19748634_418518128533825_8610226482111287101_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/19748634_418518128533825_8610226482111287101_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/19748634_418518128533825_8610226482111287101_n-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/19748634_418518128533825_8610226482111287101_n.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29651\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/19748634_418518128533825_8610226482111287101_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/19748634_418518128533825_8610226482111287101_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/19748634_418518128533825_8610226482111287101_n-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/19748634_418518128533825_8610226482111287101_n.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><br \/>\nAs the only caf\u00e9 in the village, the tearoom served as a meeting place for many of Pentyrch\u2019s community groups, as well as holding fundraisers and community events.<br \/>\nEileen Boddington, former captain of the bowls club and member of the Women\u2019s Institute said: \u201cWe always went there on a Tuesday morning for our meetings as it was convenient for everyone.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s really sad to see it go and is a definite loss to the community, we are all really thankful for the work Bethan has put in to help us.\u201d<br \/>\nWhile the tearoom has closed its doors for the final time, Bethan said that things are potentially in place for Bethan Kate&#8217;s Cakes to continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A POPULAR tea room which hosted community events in Pentyrch has closed its doors. Bethan Kate\u2019s Tearoom, formerly known as Lady Jane\u2019s tea room, closed last month after serving Pentyrch for over four years. Bethan Oakman\u2019s hobby of baking at home snowballed into a business when she received a grant from the Princes Trust. Despite living just two doors away from the tearoom, the 31-year-old from Pentyrch found it through a Gumtree advert when its previous owner had to close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":29650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,632,3,727],"tags":[1316,1291,3710,6157,157,227,398,3798,1170,1318],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-g-q","category-news","category-pentyrch","tag-cake","tag-cardiff-2","tag-cardiff-local-news","tag-closed","tag-closure","tag-community","tag-food","tag-local-news","tag-pentyrch","tag-tearoom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pentyrch tea room closure is &quot;loss to the community&quot; - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/11\/13\/pentyrch-tea-room-closure-is-loss-to-the-community\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pentyrch tea room closure is &quot;loss to the community&quot; - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A POPULAR tea room which hosted community events in Pentyrch has closed its doors. 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