Extracts from a recorded interview with Jen Bulloch, manager of the Wee Crook.
It’s definitely not just a café. We get locals every single day. We’re open seven days a week. You’ll get people coming from all over and it’s definitely a meeting place. It’s got a special feel hence the reason why we decided to make sharing tables. People will come in and they will sit at this table and they meet new people. They spend a couple of hours together and then go their separate ways, go back to Edinburgh, go back down south. It’s really quite a special place because of that and owned by the community.
There’s a lot of craft people in this area. A lot of people make their own products and we felt it was only right that we allowed them in to be able to showcase what they do, it’s allowing local business people to generate revenue for themselves.
We have a thing called the Crooked Sessions with local musicians and storytelling, the first Sunday in every month, they basically clear the room, put the tables round the side and they have a night, a really good night.
Looking forward we’ve got the bunkhouse project, the community’s got funding for it, and it’ll have twenty-two beds. That will be amazing once it’s up and running. It’s in the early infancy of how it’s all going to work, how we’re going to facilitate it and be able to feed and water everybody.
We’re wanting to give an experience of come in, sit down, stay as long as you like and enjoy what you’ve got round about you. Spirit is maybe not the right word, it’s probably along the lines of community spirit.
