PEOPLE who are experiencing bereavement are being offered support from a new Grief Café which has been launched at the Kings Arms Community Hub in Wellington.

The café has been set-up to offer a “welcoming space to talk about your loved ones” and is being held on Monday evenings and Thursday mornings once a month.

Forthcoming dates for the Monday evenings between 7pm and 8pm are August 3, September 7, October 5 and November 2; while the Thursday mornings between 11am and 12noon are August 6, September 3, October 1 and November 5.

It will cost £2 to attend per session and refreshments will be available.

The Grief Café was initially held on a Thursday morning only, but due to need the organisers have launched the Monday evening session as well.

Members of Wellington Town Council’s community committee were told on July 20 that the Grief Café was just one of a number of new initiatives being held at the community hub which is based in the High Street.

Mental health and wellbeing charity Mind in Somerset, meanwhile, now delivers weekly support sessions from the hub after the council gave the go-ahead for subsidised room hire.

Mind in Somerset is at the Kings Arms every Tuesday between 10am and 3pm.

Other activities taking place at the Kings Arms include a new seated exercise class for older residents, baby massage sessions and partnership working with the Foodbank to enable emergency food parcels to be provided where appropriate.

The council report said that the volunteer team at the community hub continued to grow with people supporting the activities.

The council’s community development officer, Laura Batcha, said the number of people walking into the hub asking for information, advice and support was also increasing to demonstrate the facility’s growing importance.

“The hub really is acting as Wellington’s community front door,” she said.