Mint Lane Café provides a warm welcome to the Involve@Lincoln wellbeing centre, which is home to other activities including counselling, peer support groups, creative therapy sessions and condition themed support.

All of the groups and organisations have the overall aim of bringing people together to combat isolation, loneliness and encourage positive mental health and well-being. 

Reducing food waste by taking retail surplus, as well as fresh food donations from local farms and allotment holders, Mint Lane Cafe provides affordable meals in their cafe and groceries in their Surplus Shop.

• Cafe serving Breakfast & Lunch
• Surplus shop selling ambient, chilled and frozen food
• World Food Supper Club, Gardening Club, Cookery Classes
• Whole Meals initiative producing nutritious, homemade ready meals
• Open Wednesday – Friday 10am-2pm

The Cafe is led by a thriving volunteer group and offers a welcoming atmosphere and all types of training to new volunteers.

The four main aims of Mint Lane Cafe are –

• Social Eating
• Action on Food Poverty
• Reduce Food Waste
• Volunteering Opportunities

Mint Lane Café aims to make a difference in the lives of anyone who engages with the café. This includes volunteers, staff and customers. We get to meet a wide variety of people, all of whom experience their own individual difficulties, but what the café provides helps everyone despite what may be happening in their life.

Fruit & Veg Boxes

Our volunteers put together fantastic boxes of fruit and vegetables fresh every week, from a selection of produce that has either been donated to the cafe or rendered surplus to requirements by supermarkets and catering companies.