The Rural Coffee Caravan Information Project began in 2003 as the brainchild of Rev Canon Sally Fogden.

Sally was manning a helpline in Suffolk for the Farm Crisis Network at the time and felt very strongly that there was a need to do something to combat the stress of rural isolation. Statistics from the Rural Stress Information Network showed farmers and farmworkers to have a very high rate of suicide and that rural dwellers suffered a high incidence of depression.

Sally and some colleagues conducted some research of their own and hit upon the idea of a mobile community cafe/information centre. They purchased a caravan, gathered together some relevant information, made some cakes and took the caravan into rural Suffolk. Their little enterprise was an instant hit and, encouraged by this response they applied for and received some funding and the Rural Coffee Caravan Information Project was born.

In the years since the Project has continued to grow. It now employs a part-time coordinator and has a small army of volunteers.More and more villages want the project to visit and the list of agencies wanting their information taken out to rural suffolk continues to grow.