Sheffield Christmas Dinner 2018

Here it is... the Sheffield Christmas Dinner 2018 film! 🎥🎬 A huge thankyou to @lhart_artist who made this beautiful film, and to @NatJohnsonband for allowing us to use her music. 🎄🎅🎁 vimeo.com/311285926?ref=tw-s… Take a look, @lemnsissay & @LemnSFoundation 💖

We've made a video of our amazing Christmas Day dinner that will be unveiled very soon... keep your eyes peeled... 👀

After our delicious dinner on Tuesday, we just took the leftover food down to @RealJunkFoodSHF. Nothing goes to waste in Sheffield! 💚🍲

A before and after shot of our venue, as beautifully decorated in just a few hours by our volunteers on Christmas Eve. Thankyou all of you! 🥰🎈

Two of our guests, Taina and Rachel, tell us about their experience of the Sheffield Christmas Dinner. A huge thankyou to everyone who contributed to making it a success, particularly our superhuman volunteers who went the extra mile on the day. Merry Christmas everybody! 🎄❤️

Our dinner has been a fabulous success and we all had a lovely day, thanks to our incredible guests and amazing volunteers. Here's the steering group with @MagicMagid, Lord Mayor of Sheffield and an all-round lovely bloke.

We're all at the venue and putting the finishing touches to the tables. Two hours until showtime! 😊🎅🍽

Our beautiful venue is all ready and prepped for tomorrow! 😥🤗💪

Jane's excited to take the presents to the venue this morning! 🤗❤🎁

@MagicMagid Hey! We just sent you an invitation to join us on Christmas Day for the incredible meal we are putting on for Care Leavers in Sheffield. It would be absolutely amazing if you could join us. 👊🏾💚

LOOK AT ALL THE PRESENTS WE HAVE! 😍😍😍

Our beautiful table decorations, made by Kay, Geraldine and Catherine! 🎄🌳☘

Our first haul of food for Christmas Day, courtesy of @waitrose Ecclesall Road and all the lovely people who voted for us. Back on Christmas Eve for the turkey crowns and the pigs in blankets! 😋

#1 🏆 At #1 it's the people of Sheffield. You have donated presents from our Amazon wishlist worth over £3,500 - fantastic! You have also volunteered your time - we have had to turn down many, many offers for Christmas Day. We couldn't do it without you. Thankyou!! 😊

#2 🏆 At #2 it's KH Oriental at @NewEraSheffield, Sheffield's oldest Chinese supermarket, who donated nearly £200 of food and offered to deliver. A massive special thankyou to Jerry and Regina. 😊

#3 🏆 At #3 it's @Waitrose. Not only have they given us £360 to spend in their Ecclesall Road store, it was easy to arrange thanks to Julie Longley. They have shown an interest in their local community despite being a national chain - it can be done. Thankyou! 😊

#4 🏆 At joint #4 it's @stmarysnews, a charity themselves who gave us rooms to wrap presents in, and the venue - a community centre who have allowed us to host the dinner at their premises for the second year running. A massive thankyou for your help and generosity! 😊

#5 🏆 At #5 it's @Morrisons, whose Meadowhead store donated a splendid £55. Thankyou! 😊

#6 🏆 At joint #6 it's @marksandspencer, who after many visits to their Ecclesall Road shop gave us £30 to spend in-store and @sainsburys who also donated £30 to spend in-store. Thanks guys! 😊

#7 🏆 At #7 it's @asda, who donated eight bottles of non-alcoholic sparkly. Thanks guys! 😊