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Manchester Christmas Dinners
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Manchester community make sure that Manchester-based care leavers (18-25) don't spend Christmas Day alone 🎄🎁 https://give.manchester.ac.uk/p/christmasdinners/
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We're so looking forward to welcoming our guests today for the last Christmas dinner at our current location 🎁🎄
(Photo from 2023)
Photograph of a hall with tables decorated in red and white table decorations
December 25, 2024 at 7:03 AM
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We're ready for our present wrapping and food parcel preparation day tomorrow 🎁🍱
Photograph of a wood panelled hall with tables full of food
December 21, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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To help our guests perfect their leftover turkey recipes, this year Waitrose are donating a bag of groceries to each guest 🧺🥘
photograph of Waitrose Essential range against a white background
December 18, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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If you prefer donating goods to charity, check out our Amazon gift list full of requests from our guests; www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/... 🎁🛍
photograph of a red fur-trimmed sack with ornately-wrapped red, green and gold presents inside
December 16, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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After earning at least £544 from our raffle to support care leavers at Christmas, we asked @official-uom.bsky.social 's newest alumni to pick the prize winners 🎟️👩‍🎓
photograph of 4 white women standing in front of a stone building, holding a silver box with raffle tickets and a poster with more information about the raffle and Manchester Christmas Dinners photo of a black woman in graduation robes reading a raffle ticket stub in front of a stone building with an asian woman smiling beside her photo of 3 white women, two wearing graduation robes and one wearing a winter coat, standing in front of a stone building and reaching into a silver box to get a raffle ticket stub photo of 3 white women, two wearing graduation robes and one wearing a winter coat, standing in front of a stone building and reaching into a silver box to get a raffle ticket stub
December 12, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Thank you to everyone who attended our raffle tour to support care leavers at Christmas. If you missed the tour but would still like to donate, you do can do using this link; give.manchester.ac.uk/p/christmasd...
photo of a sign, several raffle books, a pen and a red quilt on a wooden table with a sculpture in the background wearing a santa hat and scarf against a bookshelves background
December 6, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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We aim to give every guest the same stocking stuffers each year. Can you recommend any presents we can include in our Amazon gift list? www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/... 🧦🎁
photograph of 3 knitted red and white stockings against a red and white striped background
December 3, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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Quilts for Care Leavers have created some gorgeous quilted hugs for this year's guests, inspired by Manchester Christmas Dinners founder Lemn Sissay who mentioned in his memoir that whilst in care he really wanted a hug 🛏🤗
photograph of several handmade quilts on a table covered by a blue tablecloth
November 30, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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As November's steering group meetings come to a close, we'd like to highlight how much of each meeting was spent talking about people's kindness in donating their time, resources and money to support care leavers over Christmas 🎁🤶
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November 28, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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We had a great turnout at our first two raffle stops, with a lot of interest in the Quilts for Care Leavers quilt 🎄🛏️
If you can't make any of the stops but would still like to enter, please use this link; give.manchester.ac.uk/p/christmasd...
Photograph of 2 white women standing beside a red, white and gold banner with the QR code for donations to Manchester Christmas Dinners. To the right of the image is a red and white quilt on a stand Photo of a South Asian woman standing next to a red, white and gold banner with a QR code to donate to Manchester Christmas Dinners
November 27, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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As Christmas approaches, check out our University of Manchester raffle tour for possible gifts:
Tues 26th Nov, Booth Street East Building, 10:30am-12:30pm
Tues 3rd Dec, Nancy Rothwell Building main entrance, 10:30am-2:30pm
Fri 6th Dec, The Whitworth Art Gallery cafe, 11am-3pm 🎁🎄
Red, gold and white poster listing fundraising prizes and a QR code for donations
November 25, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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If you are around Oxford Road, stop by one of our raffles to support care leavers during Christmas: 🎟️
- 20th November, Alliance Manchester Business School reception, 10:30am-2:30pm
- 21st November, Benugo, 12-2pm
🎄More dates and prizes to be announced soon 🎄
Photo of a hotel room with a white bed and blue tiled carpet at the Hyatt hotel Manchester. Above the image is black text reading "2 chances to win a night's stay at the Hyatt Hotel!" and a red Christmas cracker with "The Christmas Dinner" in yellow text imposed on top
November 19, 2024 at 2:32 PM