No Impact Cafe closes as charity goes into administration....

It seems that the "charity" Instant Muscle which had a large training centre in the town as well as running a cafe in Tonbridge High Street, is no more. This is mildly annoying to Tonbridge blog as my alter ego Mr. Books had around two thousand books on sale there; they are currently locked in there, along with some rather nice folding bookcases. My annoyance must be insignificant vesus that of the employees of the organisation, who turned up to work one day in late February to be told that they had no job, oh and by the way, wouldn't be paid for the previous month's work either. The government charity apparently just went bust, having lost the confidence of its backers. In short it has "DODGY" written all over it. They actually owe me money, not alot, and I didn't mind giving them money for renting space in their badly run cafe because I was fooled into thinking it was a good cause, but now I'm pissed off even if it's only a hundred quid or so on pricinple. Anyone who frequented their cafe "Impact Coffee and Cards" would have noticed something about the place; a few paces along the High Street Cafe Nero would have been packed out with people queueing up to pay their £2 for a tall skinny latte or whatever; further up they'd have noticed a similar stream of people at Starbucks waiting for their Milan Moccas. But at Impact, they'd have seen a just a few old folk sipping their tea-bag tea or filter coffee; if you fancied a cup before 9-30am you'd have been lucky, and after noon tea would have been a rarity since the cafe was invariably closed by 3-30pm. So the two times when you fancy a drink the most, their doors weren't open. I'd love to get hold of that place and run it as Mr. Books Book Store Cafe and if I did I'd open at 7-30am and close at 8pm, unlike this shambles of a now defunct so-called charity who in the words of Alan Sugar on the BBC's The Apprentice didn't have a bloody clue....