Volunteers from our Centre have been going every Friday, for the last 2 years, to provide refreshments to guests that visit the homeless charity at The Bridge Homelessness To Hope.
Bridge have given the Centre volunteers full responsibility for running this service every Friday – we provide all volunteers in the kitchen, we decide on the meal we’re going to serve, we provide all the ingredients and we manage the serving of the meals. Guests know that on Fridays, they will be served vegetarian meals!!! And we also provide vegan option.
A variety of freshly cooked meals are served – vegetable curries, lentil curries, soya/quorn pieces curry, pasta bakes, lasagne, etc. We also serve rice and naan/puries/parothas with the curries, and garlic bread and potato wedges with the pasta dishes.
In addition to the cooked meal, we also serve hot drinks – tea, coffee, chocolate – plus cereals, and toasts with a variety of different spreads.
We generally cater for about 40/50 guests on Fridays. We start at 9:00 and serve lunch at 12:00, quite a tight timescale.
With Swami’s grace, we have met this tight schedule every Friday. The volunteers love coming for this service – ‘best day of the week for me – wouldn’t miss it for anything’ is how one of the volunteers put it!!
Below are a selection of photos from this service at Bridge.
