Oldest building, oldest town, young people

Many have commented that its all got a bit 1980s around here recently what with a Tory, sorry, coalition government, a Royal Wedding, public sector cuts and so on. For me it is even more so as I have moved back to the town I went to school in, which happens to be the "oldest recorded town in Britain", Colchester.

The oldest building in that oldest town (well, it has one wall which dates back to before the Norman conquest), Holy Trinity Church, has just opened as a cafe, which I popped into yesterday. Nice food, nice surroundings, a craft table for the kids, it's aiming to raise money through selling food and drink during the day in order to fund youth activities during the evening. I thought this was worth drawing attention to as one way of funding youth work when money is scarce. In this situation the council is responsible for the upkeep of the building (or so the young lady in the cafe told me) and the faith-based charity is ploughing all profits from the cafe into the youth work which will take place in the same venue.