HUNGRY visitors tucked into tasty cooked breakfasts when a new community café opened its doors in Park North.

The new café, called The Gate, has set up in the former children’s centre at Goddard Park Community Primary School.

Volunteers from the Swindon Night Shelter have promised they will whip up delicious meals from food donated by supermarkets across Swindon.

The meals will be cheap but there won’t be set prices as café volunteers will be inviting people to pay a fair price for what they think the food is worth.

Swindon Night Shelter co-founder Becky Davidson came up with the idea for a café several years ago after staff at the Ocotal Way Tesco donated furniture from a store restaurant that was forced to close.

“We had a load of tables and chairs,” said Becky. “So when the time came we knew we had everything in our warehouse that we would need to open up a café.”

Finally Becky’s dream came true and, on Thursday she was delighted when the café opened its doors to paying customers for the first time.

“The opening went really well,” she said afterwards.

“We had a lot of people coming in and there was some really positive feedback.

“People were saying that a café was something that was really needed.

“We even had a flypast from the Red Arrows who were on their way to the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford.”

And she laughed: “That’s not something that you have at every café opening.”

The café will initially open for just one day a week, serving breakfasts, lunches and cakes every Thursday from 8.30am. For more information about the night shelter café visit: www.swindonnightshelter.org.uk.