renew169 Wellbeing Café

renew169 Wellbeing Café ​A quiet shared space in Towcester where it’s OK not to be OK, for anyone with mental health or emotional difficulties.
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Three of our lovely volunteers / visitors, Anne, Pauline and Barbara, went along to the Towcester Library Jingle Jambore...
17/11/2025

Three of our lovely volunteers / visitors, Anne, Pauline and Barbara, went along to the Towcester Library Jingle Jamboree on Saturday to sell some of their home-made gifts and other donated goodies. They enjoyed chatting to people about what we do and managed to make £150, which will all go to renew169. Thank you ladies!

A date for your diaries! We will be having a stall at the Watling Street Village Christmas Market on Sunday 7th December...
16/11/2025

A date for your diaries! We will be having a stall at the Watling Street Village Christmas Market on Sunday 7th December, which you won’t want to miss. Be sure to keep a look out for future posts highlighting the wonderful home-made and handcrafted items we will be selling there.

Thanks to a funding grant from the Northamptonshire Community Foundation, we are currently running a cookery course in c...
14/11/2025

Thanks to a funding grant from the Northamptonshire Community Foundation, we are currently running a cookery course in conjunction with Cooking Good. A small portion of the grant was allocated towards creating a recipe booklet and it has been a really enjoyable, collaborative project. Staff, volunteers and visitors alike submitted recipes (as well as wellbeing affirmations and limericks) for inclusion; we had a fun, if chaotic, tasting session before settling on which recipes to include; local artist Val Goldfinch (Val Goldfinch Designs) created some truly fabulous illustrations for us and now the booklet is complete. We will be selling them to raise funds for renew169. They will make fabulous Christmas stocking fillers and are a snip at just £5 each. Look out for them at our stalls at the Towcester Library Jingle Jamboree Christmas Fair tomorrow and the Watling St. Village Christmas Market on 7 December. You can also pick up a copy at the café or from the Towcester Community Larder from next week.

All welcome to just drop in, no appointment needed.
13/11/2025

All welcome to just drop in, no appointment needed.

We had a fabulous time at our fund raising Quiz Night last night and raised the amazing amount of £1160.00. All 90 ticke...
13/11/2025

We had a fabulous time at our fund raising Quiz Night last night and raised the amazing amount of £1160.00. All 90 tickets were sold, raising £450.00 and a further £710.00 was made from the raffle. Our grateful thanks to Towcester Mill Brewery for hosting the event, Inspire Change for running the quiz so brilliantly and all the local businesses who kindly donated the raffle prizes. The incredible generosity of all of these organisations, as well as everyone who came along, means that every penny raised will go towards the ongoing work of renew169. Thank you!

The community gardeners have been busy again today, continuing with building new beds ready for planting, as well as har...
11/11/2025

The community gardeners have been busy again today, continuing with building new beds ready for planting, as well as harvesting a variety of vegetables, which will be making their way to the café to be used to make soup and light lunches. The community garden sessions are currently held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 10.30am to 1pm and are open to anyone who would like to come along.

Take a look at the prizes in the Grand Raffle at our fund raising Quiz Night next Wednesday, 12 November, at Towcester M...
07/11/2025

Take a look at the prizes in the Grand Raffle at our fund raising Quiz Night next Wednesday, 12 November, at Towcester Mill Brewery. Our thanks to all those who have generously donated prizes: Specsavers, Towcester; Catanger Llamas; Faegrian Photography; Rocco & Co Hair and Beauty; Towcester Clinic; Cre8Towcester; DnA Steak & Grill; Omorfi Nails & Beauty Clinic Towcester; Saracens Head; Flowers By Jill; Warner's Distillery, Venerable Rose and Tesco, Towcester. If you have not secured your tickets for this event yet, it’s not too late, there are still a few left. Simply press on the link http://bit.ly/4n5W5jr.

A week today and only a handful of tickets left now, so make sure you secure yours before it’s completely sold out! To r...
05/11/2025

A week today and only a handful of tickets left now, so make sure you secure yours before it’s completely sold out! To reserve your ticket, press on the link http://bit.ly/4n5W5jr

For this afternoon’s craft activity, Barbara and Pauline led a session making Christmas cards. What a fabulous, varied ...
04/11/2025

For this afternoon’s craft activity, Barbara and Pauline led a session making Christmas cards. What a fabulous, varied selection!

Knitting has become a really popular pastime again in recent years and is an excellent way to relax and de-stress. Do yo...
03/11/2025

Knitting has become a really popular pastime again in recent years and is an excellent way to relax and de-stress. Do you enjoy knitting or crocheting? Or would you like to learn? Good news! We have a knitting group, which meets at the café every week on Wednesdays from 10am to 12noon. Bring your own knitting or learn to knit or crochet. We are currently making fingerless mittens to wear yourself or to give as a Christmas gift. All are welcome to come along and join us!

Today is All Souls Day, when we particularly remember those we have loved and lost. As a simple act of remembrance and t...
02/11/2025

Today is All Souls Day, when we particularly remember those we have loved and lost. As a simple act of remembrance and thanksgiving for the lives of relatives or friends who have died, if you write the names of those you are remembering in the comments, we will say a prayer for them. If you would prefer to pray with someone in person, the reverend Dr. Jim Mullin, who is one of our trustees, will be in the quiet space at the rear of the café on Monday morning from 11.30am. All are welcome to come along and join him.

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169 Watling Street
Towcester
NN126BX

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 3pm
7pm - 8:45pm
Tuesday 10am - 3pm
Wednesday 10am - 3pm

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