Community spaces

Community spaces offer:

  • a welcoming place to spend time with others
  • information about support, advice and useful resources
  • practical support such as wifi and food

These spaces are open to all, and free or low cost to use.

Most community spaces are drop in, so there's no need to book in advance. Contact the community space if you need more information.

If you want to add a community space that's not listed here, get in touch.

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Forfar

Community living room

Libraries provide a 'Community Living Room' setting where customers are welcome to visit and stay a while to enjoy a place to sit and access Pressreader for newspapers or Libby if they want to read one of our eBooks, eMagazines and digital audio books. Jigsaws and board games will also be available.

Location and opening hours


Community spaces

East and Old Church have a heat hub where anyone from the community can come along and feel warm, relaxed and so much more. Daily newspapers will be available to read, games, puzzles, music, TV, hot drinks and some food also, charge your phones and have a chat. Cost - FREE!!! 

East and Old Parish church, 38-40 E High St, Forfar DD8 2EG. Monday to Friday, 9:30am to 12noon until the end of March.

The big kirk on Facebook


Cricket Café

Fancy a cuppa and a chat with others? Freshly cooked refreshments including scones, soup, paninis. Come along and find out what's in your community.

If you want to know more call 01307 491977 or email CLDForfar@angus.gov.uk 

Strathmore Cricket Club, Lochside Park, Graham Crescent, Forfar DD8 1DU, Fridays 10:30am to 12:30pm (11am till 12:30pm for food).

Will be closed from 15 December and reopen on 12 January.


Royal British Legion Forfar

Soup and sandwich lunch
With tea or coffee and biscuits for £3.00. Wednesdays 11:30am to 1:30pm.

Community breakfast cafe
Grab a cooked breakfast or filled roll. Monday 9.30am to 12.00pm.

Breakfast £4.00 (bacon, sausage, fried egg, beans, toast, tea or coffee). Filled roll (egg, bacon or sausage) £3.00.

Free public wifi. All welcome.

We also have various other events held in the club which people are welcome along to including Veterans Breakfast, Prize Bingo, Fiddle and Accordion and more. For more information check out the Royal British Legion Forfar website


Well Bean Community Café

The Well Bean Café offers a safe alcohol and drug free venue to meet and socialise. Self help and local service information and resources are available within the café. Workshops and activities will also be run with the aim of improving wellbeing.

Volunteering opportunities are available for people in recovery who are keen to provide peer support to others and learn new skills. The Well Bean offers affordable drinks and snacks and is a family friendly venue. All income generated will go back into the café and activities that support wellbeing.

Well Bean Café on Facebook

East & Old Parish Church, 38-40 East High Street, Forfar, DD8 2EG, Tuesdays from 12:15pm to 2pm.


If you want to add a community space that is not listed here, get in touch.