Room Lets

The Light House is not just a vibrant cafe but has 3 bookable meeting rooms. If you are ever interested in booking a room for your meeting/function at the Light House or know anyone else who would be interested please don't hesitate to contact me, Gwen, on 01463 224477 or gwen@hiltonlighthouse.org
You can download our latest brochure here which briefly describes the facilities at the Light House.

Below are some of the activities that have been or are still currently going on in the Light House meeting rooms:

· Sunday morning church service in the cafe
· 3 different Sunday school groups
· CrossReach Counselling
· Free Debt management course for the community
· Cairn Housing Association tenant’s forum
· Workers Educational Association (WEA) IT course
· WEA Deaf History training course
· New Craigs Hospital Occupational Health meeting
· SANDS charity meeting for bereaved parents
· Inverness Solicitor’s lunch-time meetings
· Birthday parties
· Birchwood Highland mental health staff and client meetings
· Dunedin Surgery’s joint patient participation group
· Children’s summer-time morning club for the community
· Highland Clarsach Society workshops
· Kirk session “elders time together”
· Alpha course
· Hilton Church Golf Challenge Barbecue

Summer 2009 at the Light House

What with all the various activities going on at the Light House over the summer, blogging has been sparce! So I'm just going to post a few photos taken over the summer period to give you a flavour of what's been going on...

Visitors from Canada

Brian had some help tasting the soup this week! You can see him pictured above with Skylar and Taylor from canada. They are part of a group of folk visiting from Canada as part of the Street Invaders team. You can read about them on the web-site http://www.streetinvaders.ca/2009/ Thanks to all our Canadian friends who came to help us in the Light House... it was really great working with you!

Light House Daily Specials

Announcing a new product at the Light house cafe - the bacon and fried egg roll! Here's a photo of Michelle the chef and Martin the happy customer :)

The soup of the day today was Jock's Brocc! Broccoli soup made by our resident soup master Brian Gunn

Thank you.. thank you.. thank you..

..to the caterers, bakers, cleaners, shoppers and servers.. speech-makers, photographers, musicians and bouncy-castle minders... cinema ushers and computer operators... donators of time or money... face-painters and child-minders... encouragers and pray-ers... everyone who helped and everyone who came to celebrate the official opening of the Light House performed yesterday afternoon by David Sutherland. May the glory be God's!

The video below tells the story of the weekend's events..

Environmental Health Inspection

Yesterday, the Light House Cafe had it's first environmental health inspection (without warning!) since opening it's doors to the public.... and passed with flying colours, I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear, especially if you eat here!! Well done to everyone involved in keeping us straight in these matters at the Light House.

To read more about the Food Standards to which the Light House is required to comply Click here

Staff Profiles

The Light House continues to move on in leaps and bounds! We now have two full time paid members of staff (other than myself!)

Many reading this will already know but just to formally introduce them on this blog....

Susie on the left above is the Cafe Manager. Susie began working at the Light House at the beginning of the year as a volunteer and mid-February took on the full time post of Cafe Manager.

Our newest recruit is Michelle pictured above on the right. Michelle also began working at the cafe as a volunteer and on Friday 1 May started the post of Catering Supervisor.

It's fantastic to have both Susie and Michelle on board and I thank God for them. Permanent staff provide a solid base of continuity and direction for the centre operations. But I need to point out that volunteer staff are also invaluable and we thank God for all our volunteer staff too! If there's anyone out there who would like to volunteer to help at the Light House and hasn't yet done so, please don't hesitate to contact Susie or myself, Gwen.
Blessings!