I am a volunteer with a group of adults with learning difficulties who clear scrub in Epping Forest, a task which they thoroughly enjoy come rain or shine.
We meet at Bradley’s tea hut weekly and enjoy a really good relationship with staff and customers.
We are made to feel welcome and wanted by all.
Bradley often refuses payment from some of our less well-off members without making a fuss or looking for thanks.
He has for sometime now catered for our end of term lunch without taking payment.
Indeed last year Brad cycled our lunch to us in a rather remote spot in Bury Wood, getting thoroughly soaked in the process.
Bradley’s tea hut is a vibrant and interesting spot where all users of Epping Forest can meet and enjoy good food and conversation.
I feel that a quiet gentrification of Epping Forest is happening and possibly the next step is a Starbucks outlet in place, with large price increases driving out less well-off people.
I urge all your readers to sign the petition at savetheteahut.com or like it on Facebook.
Alan Bailey.
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