The Community Waffle House in Axminster has launched a £20,000 online fundraising campaign to help with its upcoming move to Trinity House.

The Waffle House opened in West Street last April as a non-profit making community interest company. It has proved a huge success with every penny made going to help the needy of Axminster, especially the isolated and lonely.

The community café is now planning to take over the entire first floor of the landmark town centre building Trinity House, which is currently undergoing renovation.

The Waffle House will close in its current West Street location this weekend and will be reopening in Trinity House in November.

The new space will be five times the size of the current café and will also include a children's play area and a work space offering an alternative to the office or working from home.

The Waffle House has now launched an crowdfunding campaign with the aim of raising £20,000 to help with fitting out the new space.

The Waffle team commented: "We want to raise a big thank you to all the people who supported us in starting up The Community Waffle House, because of your help we have been able to successfully open our doors to the world. And, in doing so, we have reached so many people and supported so many local causes. We couldn't have done any of this without you!

"Here at Waffle, we have seen so many smiling faces and changed lives. We want to grow and aim to reach even more people to help build a stronger community and grow the town of Axminster. 

"Waffle is moving into the first floor of Trinity house (very soon), an old, iconic, staple building to the town of Axminster, the perfect location for our community project. 

"Things here at Waffle took off so quickly we had no room to expand but there was certainly a real need for expansion in all areas due to the ever growing social outreach we do. 

"This big move for Waffle will incorporate a bigger space for people to come, waffle and relax in the heart of 'Waffle House' expanding on our original space.

"We are also creating a 'Waffle Work' space, a space specifically aimed at those who would like a comfy, warm and inviting space away from the office and home to catch up with their business needs and to function as a place to have board meetings and games nights.

"And lastly we will be adding a 'Waffle Play' space, a designated area with some intuitive and sensory soft play for the little ones to enjoy with the potential to host small birthday parties. 

"We are really excited about all the new things we will be bringing to the community but with such a big move we also would like to reach out and ask for help in funds. 

"Trinity House will be five times bigger than what we currently have and so we need to buy more furniture and fittings. We would like the play area to look amazing for the kids, so we are designing a beautiful area for them and will need funding to help fit it out.

"Any area that you can support us in moving to Trinity, we will be very grateful!"

The crowdfunding campaign will be running for the next 29 days and you can click here to donate to the fundraising campaign.