The Armstrong Centre

08/05/2026

This morning we are delighted to welcome Splat and Scatter for their first session of messy play! £10 a child, classes at 10am and 12pm, for ages 0-7

18/04/2026

Welcome to Triple Scotch Ceilidh Band for the New Paths Music ceilidh night!

02/01/2026

Coming to the Centre on 16th Jan.
Come along!

13/08/2025

It's nearly time for Backpackers to take over the Armstrong Centre!

It's a week until Holiday Club 2025! We have some places left for the three days, across the ages. The booking link is below! We hope to see your children there for a lot of fun as we journey through the mountains!
https://forms.gle/VYKoJeqvTmqFWER88

01/08/2025

The Centre will be closed for all our groups and activities from Monday 18th August until Monday 25th August as we get ready for and then host our children's holiday club. We are really excited - get the children or grandchildren booked in!

We are really excited to open booking for our 2025 holiday club, starting in just under 3 weeks' time. This year, we are running our holiday club for primary aged children (as at September 2025) from Wed 20th Aug-Fri 22nd Aug, 10am-12pm. Numbers are limited, so get your children booked in asap and let your friends and family know.

Email us on [email protected] to book your place.

We look forward to seeing you and your children this summer.

25/06/2025

Egg-cellent news! We have a huge amount of in-date eggs looking for homes. The centre is open until 4pm. Pop in and grab a box! 🥚 😃

21/06/2025

Are you hanging around today, or popping into town for a few bits? Come join us with the amazing guys from Beverley Folk Festival busking Saturday and Sunday morning to raise money for the Centre. You might even spot a guest appearance from one of our own with his fiddle...

18/06/2025

14/05/2025

Thank you for all the support.

Dear Friends of the Armstrong Café,

Thank you to everyone who has expressed their sadness and shock at the news that Armstrong Café will be closing in its current form. We understand how much the café means to the community, which has made this an incredibly difficult decision.

When we set up the café, our hope was to create a welcoming space—a valuable resource especially for those on the edges of our community. We are deeply grateful that, for a time, it has been able to do just that.

Opening soon after the last lockdown, we aimed for the café to cover its own costs: that the income from food and drinks would be enough to pay for supplies and staff wages. In the early days, it almost managed to do so. However, over the past 18 months, the shortfall has steadily increased, and unfortunately, it continues to grow.

Beverley Baptist Church is a small fellowship of around 40 members. We give what we can from our own pockets, but there’s a limit to how much we can contribute to sustain the café in its current form.

That said, we are hopeful—and prayerful—that this is not the end. Rather, a pause. We’re exploring how we might continue providing some of the services in a different, more sustainable way. Perhaps by finding volunteers to help run a scaled-back version of the café a few times a week or partnering with other organisations who can use the café space to offer similar services. At this stage, nothing is certain, but we are trusting that something new and equally valuable will take shape in time.

And just for clarity—the Armstrong Centre itself is not closing.
We currently intend to keep running the Monday morning Warm Spaces group, the Friday Toddler group, and the monthly Seniors group, although there may be some changes to catering services provided.
The Centre will also continue to be used by a wide variety of groups every week.

Thank you again for all the love, support, and appreciation you’ve shown for Armstrong Café. If you’d like to stay informed about future plans, one-off events, or if we’re able to restart regular activities, please join our mailing list.

And if you have ideas or suggestions for how we might move forward, we would love to hear from you. While we can’t promise to implement every idea, we promise to consider them all.

With gratitude,
The Armstrong Centre & Beverley Baptist Teams

25/04/2025

Alpha Youth is back this Sunday!