2024 will be the 4th Christmas Dinner Folkestone. We are a dedicated group of volunteers committed to creating a day to remember for up to 50 young adults from across Kent who have left the care system and who may be alone on Christmas Day.
The Christmas Dinner is an annual project founded by the poet Lemn Sissay OBE for communities to provide an amazing Christmas Day for care leavers aged between 18 and 25 – one they’ll never forget.
Each Dinner is organised locally by a steering group of people who come together to make the Christmas Day magic happen. These have been organised in up to 25 towns and cities in the UK since 2013.
We NEED the help of the local community - people, organisations and businesses!! From volunteering in the run-up and on the day, offering donations of gifts or financial contributions - anything, however big or small, will enable us to achieve our aim.
Please watch the video. This is some of our wonderful guests and volunteers from 2023 and what the dinner means to them. It really is a wonderful, and much needed, event. A full video can be seen via - https://youtu.be/B0xjWIeg-zU
For further details on volunteering please email [email protected]!