Inspired Community Enterprise Trust (ICET) runs the Usual Place community café.

A community cafe in Dumfries has warned it faces a “perfect storm” with financial pressures taking their toll on the charity. 

BBC Scotland has reported that the Inspired Community Enterprise Trust (ICET), which runs the Usual Place community café in Dumfries, has launched a consultation on redundancies.

The charity said rising costs and the current funding landscape has left them with no choice after a decade of providing work and training for young people with disabilities and additional support needs. 

The Usual Place operates to provide employment opportunities for those with additional support needs through learning sector specific skills in hospitality. 

At present, 31 staff are employed by the charity, with an estimated 2,200 young people support since it opened. 

The cafe cited increases to the Real Living Wage and changes to National Insurance contributions as the financial pressures, with the chief executive estimating this could cost £51,000. 

The charity generates around £250,000 through the cafe but receives little public funding. 

Inspired Community Enterprise Trust (ICET) chief executive Craig McEwen told the BBC: "We are now in the perfect storm as we have called it.

"As government budgets are being squeezed, more and more people are going to grant and foundations for their funding - which we obviously relied on for the last 10 years to keep us going.

"As the call on their funding increases, obviously our success rate has been decreasing.

"We're never going to make enough cups of tea and coffee to sustain ourselves.

"So somebody needs to help us or our young people will just have to go back to the adult resource centres - which is basically where some of them have come from. That's the outlook."