1st Step

Volunteer week 1st-7th June 2026. 🫶🏻

1st step Community cafe 🍴

💛 Behind every delicious lunch is a team of incredible volunteers. 💛

From preparing fresh meals and homemade favourites to serving with a smile, our volunteers are the heart of our Community Café.

Their time, kindness, and dedication help create more than just great meals—they create a welcoming space where people can connect, share stories, and enjoy each other’s company.

This summer, we’re celebrating the amazing people who make our café such a special place. Thank you to every volunteer who helps turn simple lunches into moments of friendship and community.

🥘 Good food. 👥 Great people. 🤝 Stronger community.

Our community cafe is open to anyone and everyone who is interested in good food and friendly company.

Tasty home-cooked lunch, teas, coffees. Suggested donation £1. Friendly group, chat, crafts, gardening and a variety of other activities.

Tuesdays, 12-2.30pm

Food is served between 12-1.30. Activities are between 1.30-2.30

Longcroft Hall, Philip Avenue, Linlithgow

It's Volunteer Week!

It was amazing to win the Highly Commended Green award for our phenomenal impact to local sustainability at the CVS Falkirk volunteering Awards!
We are proud of the difference our volunteers make!
1st Step work with over 100 volunteers each year who contributed over 10000 volunteer hours to our communities!
Between our 2 community food revolutions in Linlithgow and Falkirk hubs we support over 4000 people each month
Over the year we have saved over 62000 kilos of food that would have been wasted but was instead turned into meals for people across West Lothian and Falkirk.
Over the last year we have worked on more than 1200 bikes and donated/fixed for free over 250 bikes to people who would not have been able to afford bikes or repairs.

1st Step Bikes, Howgate will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday 25th May. We will open as usual on Tuesday 26th May from 9 am - 4pm. We have lots of bikes in the shop just now, kids and adults, at very competitive prices so please come in and see us. We can also help with your bike maintenance requirements.