Sophie Alway founded Georgia’s Voice after her teenage daughter took her own life during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

The Chy in Redruth, which helps fund the charity Georgia’a Voice opened 18 months ago.

The cafe is currently open on weekends but If the charity could raise additional funds over the coming months, it aimed to open The Chy 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Alway said the charity had been actively supporting 120 women aged 18-25 and it was “absolutely amazing to get some recognition for the cafe”.

She said: “It’s [the cafe] one of our ways of bringing in an income to keep our services running and free.”

The Chy is staffed by trained support workers providing free one-to-one support, drop-in sessions and group workshops to help young women develop coping strategies and gain essential life skills, leaders said.

Discussing the hub’s location, Ms Alway said: “We chose Redruth because there is a real need here.

“It is an area of great deprivation, but also it is an area with fantastic transport links, so it’s very easy for people to get to from all over Cornwall.”

She explained the Village Kitchen was “a little village, it’s a really wonderful, warm community space which anybody can access” and all the funds went to the support services.

She said: “In five years, I think we have achieved so much with our support groups, we’ve now got our drop-in hub, we’ve got our free counselling service, we’re just opening more and more things all the time, which is brilliant.

“It absolutely is such a fantastic legacy for my daughter, her memory is living on, everybody knows her name, it is fantastic,” she added.

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