The Platform Cafe

The Platform Cafe Community cafe open 9am-3pm Tues-Fri | Nutritious, homemade, veggie, vegan | Workshops, supper clubs, space hire

The Platform Café is a community space in the heart of Loughborough Junction, providing healthy, nutritious food and a welcome space to feel at home. Each day we prepare homemade lunches using freshly picked seasonal produce grown at our community garden, the Loughborough Farm, as well as surplus donations. We offer catering and local delivery, so please get in touch if you’d like us to cook for y

our event. Along with offering delicious, healthy and homemade food, all income we generate is reinvested in our social impact work, including community events, outreach, workshops, volunteer programmes, training and work placement opportunities for local young people experiencing barriers into employment, and emergency food provisions for those in need. We founded the cafe in 2015 as an off-shoot of our sister project, the Loughborough Farm, with the support of volunteers and dedicated members of the community. We have nurtured the project over the years and have used it as a platform to connect people and celebrate good food in our neighbourhood. The café building used to be a derelict, public toilet in Wyck Gardens, a small Lambeth park. We are proud to have activated this disused space, turning it into a valuable community asset. Partnered with neighbouring community garden Loughborough Farm and Grove Adventure Playground as part of the Loughborough Junction Action Group, we work to empower people to create a greener, healthier and more resilient neighbourhood.

31/08/2026

Tomorrow’s the big day! Come check out our new opening times: Monday-Friday 7:45-2:30 ☕️
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27/08/2026

We’d love to hear what’s most important to you here in Loughborough Junction - and if you take our 5-minute survey, you can enter a prize draw to win 2 free lunches at The Platform Cafe! 🍽️

Hit the link in our bio to share your views or head over to loughboroughjunction.org/survey 💬

🔈 We’re hiring! We’re looking for a Cafe Assistant to join our team for an immediate start.The Platform Cafe is a commun...
26/08/2026

🔈 We’re hiring! We’re looking for a Cafe Assistant to join our team for an immediate start.

The Platform Cafe is a community cafe in Loughborough Junction, and we’re looking for a friendly, reliable person to help us serve great coffee and food while keeping the cafe running smoothly ☕️

No experience? No problem. We warmly encourage applications from anyone in the Loughborough Junction community, whatever your background, full training provided.

The details:

✳️ Part time (casual/flexible hours)

✳️ £14.80/hour

✳️ Front-of-house, barista, and food service duties

✳️ A friendly, supportive team and a genuine community atmosphere

Ready to apply? Fill out our short application form: https://loughboroughjunction.org/were-hiring-cafe-assistant/

Any questions, please contact [email protected] 📧

Please share with anyone who might be interested! 💚

From 1 September The Platform Cafe will be open Monday to Friday, 7:45am-2:30pm - making it easier to pop in for breakfa...
26/08/2026

From 1 September The Platform Cafe will be open Monday to Friday, 7:45am-2:30pm - making it easier to pop in for breakfast, coffee or something to take away during the day! 

Every drink, snack and meal you buy helps support our community projects, including our youth employment programme.

26/08/2026

On the lunch menu this week:

🥗 Salad: mixed veg, kale, carrot, grapefruit, sugar snap peas, mangetout, radish and tahini dressing

🥚 Veggie plate: boiled eggs, roasted veg (tomatoes, baby aubergine, red onions), okra skewers, herby olives, toast and hummus

🍅 Frittata: red pepper, sh*take and aubergine with green bean and tomato salad

Available from midday!

Do you have a skill or activity you could share? A way to bring people together? LJ Works are looking for Loughborough J...
25/08/2026

Do you have a skill or activity you could share? A way to bring people together?

LJ Works are looking for Loughborough Junction residents to host activities in their space over October.

LJ Hosts is a paid opportunity for local people to test out an idea and connect with their neighbours - head to LJ Works bio to apply.

You can also come down to the Platform Cafe tomorrow afternoon to find out more - LJ Works reps will be here to meet you and answer any questions 💬

24/08/2026

☕ Platform People # 3: Iona

Meet Iona, one of our regulars at Platform Cafe. Iona works for King's College Hospital Charity, the charity at one of the hospital’s facilities in Coldharbour Works.

The charity raises funds for research projects and equipment to develop better treatments and care for patients.

Iona visits Platform Cafe about three times a week. Because of her busy schedule, she often doesn’t have time to prepare her own meals, so she really values the fresh, nutritious food the cafe offers 💚

You asked… we listened! From 1 September, we’re trialling new opening hours - we’ll be open Monday-Friday, 7:45am–2:30pm...
19/08/2026

You asked… we listened! From 1 September, we’re trialling new opening hours - we’ll be open Monday-Friday, 7:45am–2:30pm 🎉

So whether you’re grabbing a coffee on the school run, picking up breakfast on your way to work, meeting a friend, or looking for something to take away, we’ll have you covered.

We’ll have freshly made Old Spike Roastery coffee, pastries, granola, fruit & chia pots (including vegan options), plus toasties and sandwiches for something a bit more substantial.

And the best bit? Every drink, snack and meal you buy helps support our community projects, including our youth employment programme.

Would you pick up a lunchbox to take away with you with something fresh, nutritious and different every week? 👇

18/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who came along to Connecting and Cooling Fiveways on Friday! ☀️

We were delighted to host this free community event outside The Platform Cafe in partnership with Cooling Fiveways, an important heat-risk project bringing together Avant Big Local, Lambeth Council, Ecosystem Coldharbour, LSBU: London South Bank University and King's College London.

We were also joined by Bureau Of Silly ideas, Helen Hayes, London Fire Brigade, Age UK Lambeth, London Sport, MLC Enterprise and Walcot Foundation.

The café team kept the cooling refreshments coming throughout the event, including our ever-popular hibiscus and ginger drink, as well as fresh Greek salad and nutritious berry and banana smoothies 🍹🥗

Loughborough Farmoughfarm gave out free basil, tomato, chilli and sweet pepper plants 🪴 while kids from Grove Adventure Playground helped to make and hand out fruit skewers 🍓

A big thank you also to all our wonderful staff, volunteers and trustees at Loughborough Junction Action Group who helped make the day such a success!

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2 Ridgway Road
Brixton
SW97AH

Opening Hours

Monday 7:45am - 2:30pm
Tuesday 7:45am - 2:30pm
Wednesday 7:45am - 2:30pm
Thursday 7:45am - 2:30pm
Friday 7:45am - 2:30pm

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