Parkview Cafe

Parkview Café is set in the thriving community of Canton opposite the popular 'Victoria Park'.

We prepare all of our food from fresh ingredients, and we try to use local suppliers wherever possible. We recycle as much of our waste as we can, and we encourage the use of sustainable transport wherever practical.

Park View was set up with European Social Funding and has recently received further support from the Big Lottery for its development into a sustainable social enterprise.

Training Opportunities
Parkview is a busy café, with a continual stream of customers throughout the day, that peaks over the lunch period. In this sense it offers an ideal work experience scenario for people who are approaching the stage of applying for paid employment positions in the open labour market. The café has a good reputation to maintain which requires confident and skilled people to operate.

Vocational skills can be honed at the café, and abilities around customer care, food hygiene and preparation, responding to orders and strong team working skills are further developed and tested in this real work environment.

Each trainee is appointed a mentor who works with them to design a bespoke personal development plan incorporating their identified training needs and career aspirations. Training placements are flexible but are designed to be time limited with a clearly identified progression route. This process is supported so that, post- training, the mentor will support the client into the next stage of their development, whether this be Supported Employment, Volunteering or Further Education. Our placements aim to be holistic in their approach with mentors also assisting individuals to overcome other obstacles that they face in accessing employment (for example transport issues/domestic arrangements/benefit advice).

We are based at the front of St Lukes Church hall on Cowbridge Road East, opposite Victoria Park. There are bus stops close by, and parking is available in the street outside.

Victoria Park is over the road, and Chapter Arts Centre is a short walk away. Cardiff city centre is five minutes away by bus.