St John's Crisis Centre: could we organise a monthly lunch?
At last week's club assembly, Mario Fairlie highlighted the gigantic effort of the volunteers at St John's Crisis Centre to bring some Christmas spirit to disadvantaged families. As you know, every year our club contributes some presents to make up a room full of bags and boxes, ready for assembly into some 250 hampers. But did you know the gigantic effort require to put them together? Some 70 volunteers tailor the hampers (yes, tailor them to ensure the presents match the age of the children).
Mario also came up with an interesting idea for a Community Service project: Running a monthly luncheon for the homeless at St John's. Now, here is an idea! Will it catch on? As always, it needs to be organised and it needs people...