Hello and welcome to Shagd-Mau-Denoid and this week we've got a very special episode

made possible by the National Lottery. Now it's Christmas season, the big day is just

around the corner and we've decided to do something a little bit special. What's that

here you ask? Well this morning we recorded the podcast from National Lottery funded project

Footprints Community Cafe. It was lovely as well wasn't it? It was lovely. It's in Red

Car, Red Car as the locals say in the North East. It was fantastic wasn't it? Well I

love the time there chatting with everyone. I had a lovely cover and some gorgeous cheese

twists. Cheese twists yeah really really nice. It's

smell amazing isn't it? It did. Before we jump in a little bit about Footprints

Community Cafe. Footprints is an amazing space in Red Car, Red Car. That is all about

bringing people together and offering them the support they may need. Locals can drop

by for activities for food and even just for a little chat. There was loads of people

there just how those of locals and regulars and those porges. For over 10 years they've

been running a whole range of important activities such as a food bank, a children's

clothes and baby item redistribution service. That was all that was a really good idea

that. Yeah brilliant. Next step shops the shared a lunch box club for children, a dementia

support group who were at the cafe when we recorded. Lovely bunch. A children's boot club

and an intergenerational service for people of different ages to meet up and have a

chat. Yes and thanks to national lottery players they've received over 800,000 pounds of

national lottery funding which allows them to continue to support vulnerable individuals

in the community. That's so good isn't it? Well you don't think you forget don't you when

you put the lottery on that it is also you know. Helping loads of people. Loads of different

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