It has been such a lovely afternoon with lots of our members joining us for afternoon lunch today. A huge thank you to our staff and volunteers who do so much to support our lunches
We served carrot and sweet potato soup, jacket potatoes with various toppings and then we served scones with jam and cream and a fresh fruit salad
It’s always a busy day but so lovely for us to hear everyone laughing and chatting together and enjoying themselves
It is absolutely lovely to be back after the Christmas period, today we held our first afternoon lunch of the year for local older people. It was so lovely to see so many people back in the centre
We served leek and potato soup topped with buttered leeks, cottage pie with garden peas and mixed berry crumble with custard
Today we served a 3 course Christmas meal to local older people and we were so pleased to see everyone enjoying themselves and chatting to one another.
We have some very special shout outs to do today!
We just want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to:
• The Spitfire Pub and Kitchen – Just wow! Denise has donated the most beautiful Turkey, potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, parsnips, pigs in blankets and stuffing! You are so generous and we are so incredibly grateful for all the work you and your team put in to preparing the majority of the meal we served today!
• One Stop – a special thank you must go to Eunice who not only donated some raffle prizes but who woke at 5am this morning to put together Christmas gift bags for every member attending our meal today so that they would all receive a special gift this year. Your whole team is amazing!
• Dolce Vita for making their incredible Tiramisu – have you ever seen anything as beautiful as their Tiramisu?! For many years now they have donated this delicious dessert and we are so grateful for their continued support – you’re all amazing!
• Tesco in Ainsdale for donating an amazing raffle prize, mince pies and tea bags – the staff couldn’t be more helpful and generous when contributing to our event. Thank you so much!
• Harbour Café and Bar – who donated the most beautiful Christmas crackers for our table and a beautiful bottle of bubbly for our raffle too – thank you so very much, our tables looked amazing and the crackers had some fantastic jokes inside
• Busy Bee in Ainsdale Village for donating a fantastic raffle prize of Fish and Chips for two! Thank you so much!
• Kings Meadow Primary School pupils for making such wonderful Christmas cards for all our members – you’re amazing!
• Our incredible staff and volunteers – you have worked so hard to serve all this beautiful food to the community and created such a lovely, welcoming atmosphere for everyone
We hope everyone had a fantastic day and we’ve shared a few photos for you now and have more to come tomorrow
We’ve had relaxing craft activities, our exciting time capsule project and a busy and adrenaline fuelled rock climbing session on Friday night
It was also lovely to chat to young people and some parents whilst we were out doing outreach over the halloween weekend, thanks to everyone that engaged with us, we hope you all had fun evenings and stayed safe
Our November evening sessions were also a hit, filled with crafts, board games and sports plus a nice meal each week to keep our energy levels up.
Sandway Homes have said how pleased they were to be able to work with us and their partners to benefit the local community.
Paul Crabtree & Sons came out of their way on Monday afternoon to deliver wood chip for our event. This meant on Tuesday morning our team, alongside Sandway Homes and Barnfield Construction, were able to lay wood chip on various sections of the Woodland paths. We also cleared 3 sacks of rubbish and used a leaf blower on the tarmac path to clear the slippy leaves too
We didn’t manage to lay wood chip on all of the paths but we hope that the amount we managed to do yesterday keeps our wellies a little bit cleaner this year!
We are so grateful for the support we have had with this project. We know that so many local people use these paths on a daily basis and we hope that by laying the wood chip you are able to access them through the Winter months too!
If you’re interested in supporting our Woodland Project please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you
Yesterday we hosted our first afternoon lunch since March 2020. It was absolutely lovely!
We cooked carrot and coriander soup, sausage casserole with a choice of school-days sprinkle cake or mixed berry crumble with custard for dessert served with teas, coffees and a raffle to end. Lovely, warming meals for the chilly autumn weather we have now
It was great having everyone in and serving fresh, home cooked meals for local older people and we’re looking forward to our Christmas events.
A big thank you to our volunteers for coming to help yesterday too, it was great to have you there
For ages 11-19 
