A CAFE based in Penrith is hosting a celebration event to mark 10 years of successful work, as it moves on to its next venture.

Café Inspire, based at Voreda House, was set up in 2010 by 4 Eden to provide a café and catering facility for the former Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, now part of North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC).

The café provides work experience for students from 4 Eden - formally Eden Mind - often preparing them for future employment opportunities.

Jacqui Taylor, chief officer at 4 Eden, said: “Cafe Inspire has been the catalyst, inspiring, enabling and training independence skills that have grown and developed over the years. The students now move on to further develop in a new challenging environment.”

Since opening, the cafe has won a number of awards for its work in providing work experience for students, which is valued and loved by staff and visitors.

Student David has worked at Cafe Inspire since 2015. He said: “I learned to work on the till, serve customers make drinks and cook all the food.

“After being a trainee and learning so much, now I can help other people learn.”

A celebration event will take place today with colleagues past and present invited along.

Afterwards, the cafe will then close its doors and move onto a new chapter of work as a bakery - Bake4Eden in Penrith.

Daniel Scheffer, company secretary at NCIC, said: “I’ve often said that Cafe Inspire is the best thing about Voreda House.

“It reminds us all as members of staff why we work for the NHS in serving others. Watching the staff grow in confidence has been great. Getting to know them individually has been a privilege.

“I’d like to thank each and every one of the staff who have put time in at the café over the years, it has been great meeting you and chatting to you. I would like to wish you really well for the future - keep up the amazing customer skills.”