23 Dec 2024 |
300 Christmas Meals provided to the community

What an amazing day we had today at DF4TA!
Thanks to the funding from ALSTOM, we have been able to provide 300 Christmas Day dinners to those in the community who would be going without this year.
Thank you to that amazing team of Volunteers, Karen Reedman who got nick named CHEF straight away, and to the amazing volunteers from Alstom and the general public who got in touch after our appeal who wanted to help out with prep and delivery.
Thank you to Paul and the team at Derby County for cooking the turkeys.
Thank you to Fairfax Meadow for donating the turkeys.
We really couldn’t have done it without everyone’s help today, it was amazing team work today thank you to everyone you were amazing!
Feedback
Great to have some feedback on our Christmas meals, we received a lovely email from a happy customer.
"Just to say thank you so much for the Christmas lunch which was delivered on Monday 23/12/24. This was a totally unexpected surprise as I had discussed the offer of this with my Good Neighbour and wasn't too keen on idea- purely because the idea of sitting eating a Christmas dinner alone was just too sad- and something I haven't been able to do for many years.
It was a miracle I answered the door at that time - only did as was expecting an Amazon delivery! I was totally blown away by a young man standing there saying i have your Christmas dinner. The fact that people were giving up their time like this touched my heart and made my Christmas- so thank you to you all.
I did in fact have the dinner on Christmas Day- the 1st in my house for probably 15 years. Just seemed right thing to do this time as it had been so kindly prepared for me. Couldn't face pulling cracker with myself! Am saving it in hope of maybe having someone with me next Christmas.
That little carrier bag was a very rare present - full of so many unexpected goodies. It sat by my tree for a while to remind me there are some people out there somewhere who do care.
Happy new year to you all - and thank you again for the dinner package and also for caring."
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