A CHARITY will open its fourth community café in a park this weekend.

The Parks Foundation will open a café on Sunday, May 26 in Alexandra Park in Poole.

The café is within the newly refurbished pavilion, and will offer a range of food, drinks and snacks throughout the year.

It will be open seven days a week initially in the summer, between 9.30am and 4.30pm.

The official launch event for the café will be held on Saturday, July 6.

John Hanson, chief executive officer at The Parks Foundation, said: “We’re so excited to expand our work in local parks by opening this café, which we hope will become a much used and loved neighbourhood space, providing a hub for the community.

Bournemouth Echo:

“Alexandra Park is a beautiful park which the café will further enhance, giving visitors the opportunity to take a seat, have a cuppa, and enjoy the park for longer.

“Our charity has been working in the park for several years now, delivering a range of free nature-based activities for all ages and developing a now well-established GreenFingers volunteering group.

“The group has been very busy readying the space outside the café, planting trees and flowers for visitors to enjoy. They also help tend the community garden where we’ve installed raised beds for growing vegetables and planted an orchard. So, there’s lots to do when visiting the park.

“And, like our other community cafés at Winton Recreation Ground, Redhill Park, and Boscombe Chine Gardens, and the Kingfisher Barn Visitor Centre on the Stour Valley Nature Reserve, all profits from Alexandra Park Café will help our charity continue enhancing parks across Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole.

“So, visitors can enjoy a brew knowing they’ll be helping their local parks too.”