FESTIVAL VIP TICKET SALE FOR #TCD2013

Posted on by Lemn Sissay in Main Page, The Christmas Dinner
We only have seven days left to crowdfund to reach 10,000 total. Then we have funded this and and much of next years Christmas Dinner.  Wharehouse Project have offered VIP Festival ticket sales to The Christmas Dinner. All finance raised goes to The Christmas Dinner.  They are supporting us.  But there is seven days left  on The Christmas Dinner Crowdfunder  site where the tickets are available. Here are the tickets and their websites. Remember to go to Crowdfunder to pledge. A £290 pledge Read more [...]

Picture House Cinema backs The Christmas Dinner #TCD2013

Posted on by Lemn Sissay in Main Page, The Christmas Dinner
I've just this minute met Leah Byrne of Picture House Cinemas. We met  in Shoreditch House.  Picture House have donated a whole cinema experience for The Christmas Dinner in Manchester as well as additional presents  and much more. Leah  happens to be carrying a film reel of The Dark Knight.  Beautiful coincidence:   Batman, like many care leavers,  is an orphan.  #TCD2013 Read more [...]

The Christmas Dinner needs a chef

Posted on by Lemn Sissay in Main Page, The Christmas Dinner
I hoped we would get past the halfway mark for The Christmas Dinner and we did. Just click on the link on the right of the chef and you can pledge skills, money, goods or all three. You can write us too here. The Christmas Dinner needs a Chef.  Chef  is the most important person of the day.  If there is no chef there's nobody eating. We have organic vegetables donated by Unicorn Grocery. We have organic Turkeys donated by Baileys Turkeys.   We have the central Christmas  cake provided by Jill Read more [...]

Venue For The Christmas Dinner

Posted on by Lemn Sissay in Main Page, The Christmas Dinner
The Christmas Dinner is a pop up group of twelve inspired professionals with over one hundred years experience of working with young people in care and care leavers.  We are putting together  The Christmas Dinner for forty five  care leavers between sixteen and twenty five at a secret location in Manchester. In the run up to Christmas the pressure  intensifies for care leavers.  Since I announced The Christmas Dinner we've been inspired by your responses. Thankyou. This morning I was filming Read more [...]

“The Christmas Dinner” in Manchester

Posted on by Lemn Sissay in Main Page, The Christmas Dinner
The Christmas Dinner  is a pop up organisation of twelve professionals in the North West of England  with over an hundred years experience of working with young people.   We have come together to provide a Christmas  Dinner on Christmas Day in Manchester  for approximately forty care leavers  between the ages of sixteen to twenty five years. They will not be alone on that day. Many care leavers are alone in flats, B&B’s and hostels on Christmas day.  Many are sofa surfing and indeed Read more [...]