Much-loved forces brand Naafi opens café on Winchester high street
The Naafi has opened a new café in Winchester - its second cafe on a UK high street.
For more than 100 years, the Naafi (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) has helped British Armed Forces and their families feel at home, wherever they are in the world, providing goods and services from behind the wire.
The not-for-profit organisation opened its first UK high street Naafi café at Catterick Garrison in March, and another café will open in Gibraltar on 26 April.
Naafi has catered to troops during the Second World War, the Falklands conflict, the two Gulf Wars and Afghanistan among others.
Today, it operates in some of the world's most remote places, such as Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean, Brunei, and on board naval ships.
The new cafés are dog friendly and the menu includes the famous Naafi tea, sausage or bacon baps, coffee brewed with pride, plus tasty sandwiches, wraps, cakes and more.
Regular visitors will be able to benefit from a Naafi café loyalty card, with a free hot drink once they have collected 10 Royal Navy, British Army or Royal Air Force stamps.
Naafi's website says: "As a not-for-profit organisation, we have an agreed mechanism with the Ministry of Defence to return all our trading surpluses back into supporting our Armed Forces either as direct financial contributions to the locations that generated it, or by investment in the facilities we operate.
"Launched in 2020, the Naafi Fund is committed to providing a minimum of £7.5m back to Armed Forces units to invest in their own welfare projects over the course [of] a decade.
"Armed Forces Units can apply for Naafi funding to support projects that improve the quality of life for forces communities."
The new Winchester café is at 52-54 Saint George's Street.
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