The Richmond Cafe

General information

Richmond’s Hope was founded in April 2003 in Niddrie, Edinburgh, in response to a need within the local community. People from the church and the café project became aware of behavioural problems amongst local children who had been bereaved. In 2001 there were fifteen deaths of young people in the area which directly affected the lives of thirty nine children (either the children of the deceased or siblings). The church was involved because the minister conducted the funerals and local people were involved because the café is a place where people meet and talk. A group of local people, including bereaved people, raised the money to convert an area of the church into a playroom and staff the project which opened in February 2003. Since that time our work with bereaved children has been widely recognized and we now have service level agreements to provide a service for the whole of the City of Edinburgh and Midlothian.