The Christmas Dinner - Peterborough

It's that time of year again and we are so excited to begin planning our Dinner for 2024!

Our steering group will be meeting regularly from next week and we are delighted to have many returning from previous years.

As always we will be seeking the support of our in and and will be sharing details of how you can get involved over the coming weeks.

So please, watch this space for more news, like and share our posts to spread the word 🎄

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General 1 — The Gold From The Stone Foundation No care leaver should feel alone on Christmas Day. The Gold from the Stone Foundation supports Christmas Dinners for care leavers. A national community of communities making Christmas Day special for people who would otherwise be alone on Christmas Day. The first Christmas Dinner was in 2013. Since....

General 1 — The Gold From The Stone Foundation No care leaver should feel alone on Christmas Day. The Gold from the Stone Foundation supports Christmas Dinners for care leavers. A national community of communities making Christmas Day special for people who would otherwise be alone on Christmas Day. The first Christmas Dinner was in 2013. Since....

Thanks to the hard work and commitment of our brilliant team of volunteers, and the support and generosity of our community The Christmas Dinner Peterborough had its best year yet! 🥳

Follow the links to see what we managed to create for our wonderful guests 🥰

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eIUh-tS892Ln0y0lH53R01hdGPRXMrU1/view?usp=drive_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1etfgvkGzqqiCsyXMtdF717GCKmHDMUzf/view?usp=drive_link

We can’t wait to do it all again in 2024! 🤩

A heartfelt thanks to….

The George Alcock Centre

Diamond Hampers CIC - Community Support Organisation

Dunelm Huntingdon | Community Support

Waitrose & Partners

A2B EURO CARS

Alan Boswell Group

Taylor Wimpey

Tesco

Asda

Rotary Club of Peterborough Ortons

Amazon.co.uk

PCRFM

Princebuild

Abbots Events

OceanSaver

Argo Lounge

Ferro Lounge

Redgate Software

Stuart House

We Love Peterborough

Peterborough Telegraph

KingsGate Community Church

Compare the Market

Peterborough United

Hand Knits for Care Leavers

Smart Qualifications

Blue Skies

Thanks to the fantastic support of our generous community, our brilliant and dedicated team of volunteers created something magical on Christmas Day for our wonderful guests 🤩
The word cloud below captures some of the lovely feedback that we have received 🥰
A huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported The Christmas Dinner - Peterborough this year - you helped us make it our best one yet! 🥳

What a day!

Our last guests have been taxied home.

Our are home to rest.

Presents have been opened, bellies are full and we've had an amazing day!

Thank you to everyone involved for making this day magical!

Presents are wrapped!

Food is prepped!

Food hampers are packed!

We are ready for our guests!

Thank you to everyone who has been part of the team getting us to this point. Merry Christmas everyone ❤️ 🎄🎅🎁🥳🎉

It's nearly time! We are so excited to be welcoming over 30 guests this to join our for a day of festive fun, games, gifts and of course

None of this would be possible without your support and we are beyond grateful for our who have gone above and beyond in supporting this wonderful event.

Helping us deliver Christmas magic to young from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire this year are ...

Dunelm Huntingdon | Community Support
Diamond Hampers CIC - Community Support Organisation
The George Alcock Centre
PCRFM
Abbots Events
OceanSaver
Taylor Wimpey
Princebuild
Argo Lounge
Redgate Software
Waitrose & Partners
A2B EURO CARS
John Lewis & Partners
Rotary Club of Peterborough Ortons
Ferro Lounge
Stuart House
ETUK Ltd
KingsGate Community Church
Compare the Market
Hand Knits for Care Leavers
Smart Qualifications
Tesco
Asda

All our individual donors, there are far too many of you to mention by name but please know we appreciate each and every one of you!

All our who have liked and shared our posts to spread the word of our event, your contribution is so important for us in raising awareness and reaching more people who can be involved!

All our new volunteers who have chosen to spend their evenings, weekends and time off preparing the best possible for our guests!

Thank you ❤️

Massive thanks to John Lewis & Partners and Waitrose & Partners for the very generous hamper donations picked up by some of our volunteers this week!

This year has been a wild ride of referrals and donations, volunteers and shopping! It's very nearly the main event and we can't wait to see our guests on !

There are 34 Christmas Dinners for care leavers between 18 and 25 years old. There are thousands and thousands of people who have contributed to the food, presents, volunteering, taxis, venues and organisation.

John lewis & Waitrose have given us thousands and thousands of food items for the take away hampers for each and every guest so that when they go home after the dinner they take a hamper of Christmas love with them.

Hundreds of quilt makers have made a bespoke quilt for every single care leaver. They start making them in January. They formed a company called Quilts for Care Leavers. All the dinners are independently organised by steering groups which have been meeting throughout winter to organised this one single special Christmas Day. It is all voluntary, all the power of community.

The dinners take place on Christmas Day with food and presents for each and every one, plus a taxi which picks them up from their home and drops them off at home. It is the tenth year since the first dinner in Manchester.

My personal mission regarding Christmas Dinners has been to make a nation aware of the care leaver on Christmas Day. Over the previous ten years we have done that. Today besides The Chritmas Dinners there are charitable organisations and individual campaigns for children in care at Christmas which are a direct result of the work of The Christmas Dinners.

The Christmas Dinners are for care leavers who feel alone on Christmas Day. Our aim is to create a positive memory. The Dinners are successful because of the attention to detail as exemplified in the How To Guide which you can find at The Gold From The Stone Website.

https://www.goldfromthestone.org.uk/home

Merry Christmas to every single volunteer over the past ten years, you gorgeous incredible people. Next year I want Hackney back, I want Oxford and Cambridge. Where else in the UK would you like there to be a Christmas Dinner for Care Leavers? And would you like to join a steering group in September 2024. It's a lot of fun. Each Dinner is independent. Great friendships have been made in the steering groups and even a marriage. Let me know and I will build the list. Merry Christmas to every one. Merry Christmas.

Photo: Christmas Eve room preparation and present wrapping day at Manchester

Thank you to all at Stuart House and all the raffle ticket buyers! Your generosity is wonderful and will help make this extra special for our Guests 🎉🎄🎅🎁❤️🥳

We are delighted to have raised £148 for The Christmas Dinner - Peterborough from our Christmas Hamper raffle!

Thank you to all that donated 😁

We asked some of last years guests what they would appreciate in their hampers this year and their feedback (other than how awesome last years hampers were) was that household cleaning products would be super helpful.

Armed with that info we reached out to eco friendly brands to see if they might be able to help. OceanSaver came through with a really generous donation of 35 of their antibacterial surface spray bottles which arrived today!

Thank you to the team at Ocean Saver ❤️🎁🎅🎄🎉

Two days left to check this out and learn more about what inspired Gold from the Stone founder Lemn Sissay to start The Christmas Dinners!

BBC One - My Life at Christmas with Sally Phillips, Series 1, Lemn Sissay Sally Phillips meets poet Lemn Sissay to discover what Christmas means to him.

Massive thanks to Dunelm Huntingdon | Community Support and their amazing customers who have come through with a huge haul of gifts for our Guests for the second year in a row!

We are at 68% of our target raised 🎉🎊🌲🎅❤️☃️

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far ❤️

We are still receiving new guest referrals so if you can donate it would help so much!

Your donation will help us to pay for personal gifts from our guests wishlists and transport to and from the event.

Help raise £3000 to Help us to organise a Christmas Dinner in Peterborough to provide young care leavers aged 18-25 with an unforgettable day. Weʼre raising money to Help us to organise a Christmas Dinner in Peterborough to provide young care leavers aged 18-25 with an unforgettable day.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

We've received 3 new referrals today!

There's still time to order a gift from the wishlist for our guests.

If you do purchase a gift please check the delivery address as it can sometimes default to your main delivery address. If that does happen you should be able to change it by opening up the address list and choosing The Christmas Dinner Peterborough from the options

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HUGE thanks to the wonderful Eva and all at Taylor Wimpey for their generosity in providing 300 items for our guests’ food hampers!! 🤩🥰🥳😍

20 sleeps till !

As we continue to receive new referrals we are updating the wishlist with our guests personal picks

If you would like to buy a gift for a young it's as easy as clicking the link!

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61% of our target raised 🥳🎉🎄🎅🎁

Thank you to all our donors so far, we are so blown away by the support of our friends, family and community ❤️

If you can, please do consider donating. The more we raise the more young people we can welcome on day.

Please like and share this post for more visibility, it really does make a difference!

Help raise £3000 to Help us to organise a Christmas Dinner in Peterborough to provide young care leavers aged 18-25 with an unforgettable day. Weʼre raising money to Help us to organise a Christmas Dinner in Peterborough to provide young care leavers aged 18-25 with an unforgettable day.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

❄️ VOLUNTEER APPLICATIONS CLOSED ❄️

We've been blown away by the sign up rates for this year and we now have a huge team of friendly faces ready to greet our guests on

Thank you to everyone who has shown an interest in joining us this year but we are now closing applications to new volunteer hosts for 2023.

If you would like to get in touch to help in other ways then please check out our page The Christmas Dinner - Peterborough for pinned posts and contact info!

Hellooooo December!

The countdown is really on now with just 24 sleeps till !

❄️ Our Hosts and Helpers are meeting in person on Monday for the first time

❄️ Our shoppers have been shopping

❄️ Our planners have been planning

❄️ Our supporters have been supporting

❄️ Our guests have been applying

❄️ Our community has been growing

❄️ Our donations have been steadily received

All made possible by this wonderful of individuals and businesses who are getting involved in making this magic for our Guests!

If you would like to get involved you can ...

🎅 make a donation via

🎅 buy a gift from our Wishlist

🎅 refer a guest or apply yourself if you are aged 18 to 25 in or

🎅 Like and Share this post

Links to all of the above can be found in the pinned posts on our page The Christmas Dinner - Peterborough

The wishlist is updating fast with new gifts selected from our guests personal 's!

If you would like to buy a gift for a young this please check out our Amazon Wishlist.

We would also really appreciate if you can like and share our posts to spread the word about this event to all your friends.

We have been bowled over by the generosity of all our supporters this year, thank you to everyone who has purchased a gift or made a donation. None of this would be possible without you ❤️🎁🎄🎅❄️

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Here’s the link to our guest referral form 😊

Peterborough Christmas Dinner 2023 Welcome to the Christmas Dinner Peterborough 2023! Please complete this form if you are a care leaver aged 18-25 who would like to be on the guest list for the Peterborough Christmas Dinner on Monday 25th December 2023 at 1pm. >> Click for more information about the dinner

With 19 confirmed guests this will officially be the BIGGEST Christmas Dinner Peterborough event yet!

Can you help us make it the BEST one yet?

If you can donate, your donation will help us to provide guests with gifts from their personalised wish lists .... anything from a new winter coat to blenders, headphones and games!

If you can't donate, please do like and share this post to spread awareness of this great cause 🎅🎁🎄🥳❤️

Help raise £3000 to Help us to organise a Christmas Dinner in Peterborough to provide young care leavers aged 18-25 with an unforgettable day. Weʼre raising money to Help us to organise a Christmas Dinner in Peterborough to provide young care leavers aged 18-25 with an unforgettable day.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

Less than a month till and our elves have been busy shopping in Peterborough today!

With a record number of referrals at this early stage we know we need to be organised to be ready to deliver the most amazing possible for our guests!

Thank you to everyone who is supporting this event and making it possible for us to give young in and a Christmas to remember ❤️☃️🎅🌲

are still live on some of our guests items via

We've had a record few days for referrals and are up to 16 confirmed guests to share with us!

The linked list will be updated over the coming days so please do check it out and consider donating a gift if you can 🎁🎅🎄❤️

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I started to write a post earlier today about our 14th confirmed guest ... which is awesome news ... and before I could hit send we received another referral 🥳

This year has seen far more referrals at this early stage which is so exciting for us but it does mean we need to push on with seeking support so we can ensure the best possible Christmas for our guests.

If you can please do consider donating or visit our page for pinned posts with links to the Amazon wishlist and contact details for how to get in touch!

Thank you to all of our supporters so far!

Help raise £3000 to Help us to organise a Christmas Dinner in Peterborough to provide young care leavers aged 18-25 with an unforgettable day. Weʼre raising money to Help us to organise a Christmas Dinner in Peterborough to provide young care leavers aged 18-25 with an unforgettable day.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

We are delighted to have 11 confirmed guests already but we need more! We would love to host up to 30 young people this year for our biggest Christmas Dinner yet!

🎁 Are you a care leaver aged 18 to 25?

🎁 Do you live in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire or the surrounding areas?

🎁 Would you like to spend Christmas Day with a friendly bunch of people and be spoiled with Christmas Dinner prepared by a professional Chef, gifts and a hamper of food to take home?

If you can answer yes to all three of those questions then we want to hear from you!

You can get in touch here via Messenger or email us at [email protected] or use the QR code in the picture below.

We are here to answer any questions you might have about the event and how it all works. But really, all you need to know is that we would love to have you join us on Christmas Day 🎄