The best thing I’ve ever done is to organize Christmas Dinners for Care Leavers between the ages of 16 and 30. This year I’ve created a HOW TO GUIDE which you can DOWNLOAD HERE. Itl shows how Read more [...]
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Category Archives: The Christmas Dinner
Lemn Sissay’s account 
of The Christmas Dinners from 2013 to the present day.
Merry Christmas to Leeds Manchester & London (So far…)
Hiya and a Merry Christmas to you. It's a bit early for the “Merry Christmas” bombshell but hear me out This year I’m coordinating three Christmas Dinners for care leavers. One in Leeds one in Read more [...]
It’s One minute to Christmas Day 2014
It’s Christmas Eve. Both the Manchester and London teams have packed the presents and designed the rooms and prepped the meals. Each dinner sits 65 care leavers. Two dedicated teams of eight individuals Read more [...]
Hackney Christmas Dinner & Manchester Christmas Dinner
In approximately seven meetings over a few months my team in Manchester have found a venue and presents and food and a chef and volunteers for the young care leavers of The North West of England. They Read more [...]
Manchester Christmas Dinner Needs Help
All we hear in the press is the negative news about what happened to young care leavers - This is a positive story. The Manchester Christmas Dinner is a free Christmas dinner for Care Leavers between Read more [...]
I need your help.
Asking for help is a big deal for me. I used to think it was a sign of weakness. Now I realise it's a sign of strength and development. If you can't ask for help you can't grow. So help me please. Read more [...]
Russell Brand and The Hackney Christmas Dinner
I’ve two tales to share. One is The Hackney Christmas Dinner for Care Leavers and the other is about Russell Brand. I'll start with the former. At last The Hackney Christmas Dinner Crowdfunder Read more [...]
Hackney Christmas Dinner 2014
The aim is to provide a Christmas Day Dinner in Hackney for care leavers aged between 18 and 25 on Christmas Day. Many care leavers are sat in flats, B&B’s, hostels, away from family or are sofa Read more [...]
How Christmas Dinner 2013 was organised.
All details of how the team organised The Christmas Dinner 2013 for care leavers are within this blog. Sally and The Tope Project who did a Christmas Dinner in London in 2012 inspired me to instigate Read more [...]
Parklife. One ticket one people.
In March Parklife festival tickets sold out. There’s 600 performers and 200 acts. This weekend an audience of 140.000 are partying at the largest municipal park in Europe. With stage and Read more [...]