{"id":83455,"date":"2024-02-23T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=83455"},"modified":"2024-02-23T17:06:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T17:06:34","slug":"mystery-restaurant-helps-volunteers-serving-hundreds-of-meals-to-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2024\/02\/23\/mystery-restaurant-helps-volunteers-serving-hundreds-of-meals-to-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery restaurant helps volunteers serving hundreds of meals to the homeless\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Cardiff church provides a city centre warm space and a square meal several times a week<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A MYSTERY restaurant in Cardiff has helped volunteers to provide hundreds of meals for the homeless and vulnerable at Tabernacl Chapel in The Hayes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe restaurant provides hot meals twice a week and does it for nothing,\u201d said Bill Davies, deacon of Tabernacl Chapel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have always believed in helping the homeless and this has made it a lot easier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tabernacl Chapel, a Welsh Baptist Church, provides a warm space and hot food for homeless and vulnerable people in Cardiff each Wednesday and Sunday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the restaurant offered its services to the chapel, Tabernacl volunteers cooked food for the 30 to 50 people who attend each warm space event in its kitchenette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclpastafromgiovannis-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclpastafromgiovannis-1024x768.jpg 1024w, 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Chapel for over 25 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tabernacl is open to donations from the public, and is particularly interested in receiving waterproof coats, trousers, socks and sleeping bags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Sometimes people will come in soaked to the skin and need a complete change of clothes.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><cite>Ann Beynon,Tabernacl Church<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Volunteers say they see a lot of the same faces each week since they opened a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is a couple who we have seen since we first opened,\u201d said the Rev Davies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cRecently they were excited as they found a room at a hostel. Unfortunately they didn\u2019t have any towels, so they could not take a shower.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo my wife and I dashed home and brought them back some towels. With basic things like that, we do what we can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83641\" style=\"width:762px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-1400x1050.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83641\" style=\"width:762px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min-1400x1050.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/tabernaclchurchbanner-min.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><b>T<\/b><strong>abernacl Church in The Hayes <\/strong>Credit: Megan Ballantyne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tabernacl\u2019s city centre location means makes it ideal for helping people who sleep on the streets. Cardiff has the most rough sleepers of anywhere in Wales, with 47 people recorded as sleeping on the streets as of November 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tabernacl provides the service as part of Cardiff Council\u2019s Warm Hubs (Ganolfan Glyd) project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before this, the chapel had been providing tea and coffee for the homeless for over 30 years. It also supports other charitable initiatives, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2024\/02\/20\/butetown-project-to-house-refugee-family-makes-plea-to-landlords\/\">Croeso Butetown<\/a> project to house a refugee family in Cardiff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Tabernacl\u2019s warm space in The Hayes is open Wednesday 12.30 to 2pm, Saturday 10.30am to 12pm and Sunday from 2pm to 4pm<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff church provides a city centre warm space and a square meal several times a week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1051,"featured_media":83622,"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":[3],"tags":[23,10,358,227,1735,398,841,713,4674,339],"coauthors":[8536],"class_list":["post-83455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cardiff","tag-charity","tag-city-centre","tag-community","tag-cost-of-living","tag-food","tag-homelessness","tag-restaurant","tag-the-hayes","tag-wales"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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