Steve Bull opens the Unity cafe , Tipton.

Steve Bull opens the Unity cafe in Tipton.

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00:00I'm really impressed by how many people are here, fantastic support from the

00:04community in Tipton. I'm chair of the Groundwork West Midlands Board and I

00:10cannot tell you how excited and how glad we are to have the cafe open as a new

00:15facility in Tipton. It really is a testament to the work that we do in the

00:21community, our presence in Tipton for quite some time but now we've actually

00:25got a shopfront somewhere you can all come, meet, gather, have social

00:31interactions, find out what we do and access services. It really is an ability

00:37for us to move on to all the good things that we do around sustainability, green

00:42jobs, green energy, good sustainable healthy eating and it really follows on

00:48from a lot of the projects that we do around cook well, eat well, gather

00:55together, lots of things. We hope that you enjoy using the cafe, being visitors,

01:01meeting your friends, having good times and I'd like to really say a big thank you

01:06to Andrew and the team for everything that they've done to bring the project to

01:10fruition which has happened incredibly quickly. We signed it off as a board in

01:15September and here we are less than a year later, kitted out with a fantastic

01:19facility. So I'll pass over to Steve, without further ado, to Cuttle River and enjoy.

01:25First of all, it's nice to be back in Tipton by the way, absolutely beautiful, my home-grown

01:31town. Listen, we always say to everybody, I've got the easy job here, cutting this. The

01:37hard job is getting everything up and running and these are absolutely brilliant to get this

01:42up and running. I always say in Tipton, in Walsall, wherever you go, places need picking

01:47up and things like this do the world of good for the air they await you. So listen

01:51to me, respect it and enjoy it, okay? Treat it as though it's like your own, okay? And

01:56that's me coming from Tipton with no carpets, no curtains, no nothing like that. Treat it

02:00like it's your own, okay? And it is now, officially, in the scissors of the blunt. I ain't having that.

02:10Pull it tight, guys. Here we go. I ain't having this, by the way. Change the chair. Now, open! Enjoy it. Enjoy it, okay.

02:28Thank you, thank you.