Lunch Positive, the charity that provides a weekly HIV Lunch Club will be staging a Big Community Lunch during LGBT+ History month on Friday February 17 in the Phil Starr Pavilion on New Steine Gardens.
Everyone will be welcome to drop into the lunch between 11 am and 4pm. Lunch Positive volunteers will be preparing and serving a range of hot rice and pasta dishes, soups, tea and coffee.
There will be no charge however, donations are welcome for people to ‘pay as you feel’. All money raised at the community lunch will go towards running the HIV Lunch Club where people who are HIV positive can get a healthy meal every Friday.
The entire volunteer team and members at Lunch Positive will be involved in putting the lunch together, including planning the menu, cooking, serving and being available to help people on the day. Over 140 hours will be given in volunteering for the event.
Lunch Positive are also hiring a pitch at New Steine Gardens throughout the festival and will be setting up a catering tent close to the Phil Starr Pavilion.
Lunch Positive volunteers will also be fundraising at a variety of exciting evening festival events by offering food for sale to attendees. At other times during the festival they will be working with small community groups to provide ‘pay as you feel’ food and refreshments for their respective community events.
Gary Pargeter, Lunch Positive Service Manager, said: “This new festival looks fantastic! We are hugely grateful to the LGBT Community Safety Forum for their vision and support in helping us participate. It’s especially exciting that we will be involved in a range of fundraising for our own charity, and also working with other small community groups.
We hope that our Big Community Lunch on February 17 and our catering tent at evening events will be successful fundraisers for our charity, so please come along! Our volunteers and members have shown an amazing enthusiasm for getting involved, so please support us, and tell people that we will be there!”
Funding to stage the Big Community Lunch has been awarded by the Rainbow Fund.
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