Jolly Meals on Wheels
We are so happy to have been able to deliver 27 meals each week for the last 20 weeks thanks to The Friendly Food Club and George who did all the cooking.
The Community kitchen at the Allendale Centre in Wimborne very generously allowed us to use their premises for free to prepare the meals. A big thank you to Liz Guilmant-Cush from The Friendly Food Club for organising everything and being so great to work with.
Huge thanks go to our lovely Kate who drove through floods, rain and cold to get the lunches out and through it all remained resolutely cheerful. She stopped and had a little chat with every recipient and received some wonderful feedback, they were all so appreciative and say they can’t really believe that the meals are free! Some of them spend long periods without seeing anyone and they really look forward to Kate’s cheery visits. Thanks to this project we have helped many rurally isolated people through the winter months.
The Jolly Friendly Lunch Delivery Service is as needed as ever and is in it’s 3rd year, but is ending on the 27th March and will restart in November. A big thank you goes to Coral Samuel Charitable Trust and We Out Here Festival for funding the lunches.
Additional funds came from our fundraising tea last year and we are having another one in Wimborne St Giles village hall on the 21st July if anyone would like to come along and support us. All money raised will be used to support our delivered lunches and also delicious lunches for our guests at Jolly Wimborne St Giles.
Anyone wishing to send an online donation to support our work can do so below. It all helps to keep the Jolly Lunches on the road.
“I enjoy talking to you about poems and having someone knock on my door and seeing your smile. I think the meals are excellent and the Christmas one was more than excellent, it’s the first time in my life that I’ve had something for nothing.” – Margaret (99 years young)
