A cosy café founded on a bedrock of charity, generosity, and community spirit has turned a year old despite the odds.
The Paper Cup Coffee shop in Queen Square celebrated a year of serving up hot beverages and homemade cakes this week after a fierce battle with the soaring cost of living crisis caused the business to operate at a loss for six months.
Owner Michelle Langan said: "Our first year has been a real rollercoaster. We opened when we were still in and out of Covid-19 restrictions, so the first year has been a real learning curve, but there's been a lot of massive positives as well. We've got a lot of regular customers, and also some celebrity supporters - before Christmas Tim Burgess came to do a shift at the shop after hearing about us on social media, and Frank Cottrell-Boyce has come on as one of our patrons."
