Last year the managers cooked dinner one night at Ronald McDonald House as part of their family dinner programme. As this was great fun and successful event we’d like to do it again this year. The current thinking is to repeat the menu we did last year as it went down really well and there’s a bit of experience to call on in terms of timings, quantities etc! The menu included a roast vegetable stack, roast potatoes, gourmet sausages followed by a chocolate brownie.
We’d like to open it up this year to anyone on the staff who’d be interested in being involved. There’s room for about 6-8 people to be involved in the kitchen at any one time so the idea would be to do split shifts across the day ranging from food preparation in the morning/early afternoon to cooking, serving and cleaning up cooks dishes. Or if we have lots of volunteers, we could offer a second day and have 2 Library teams. Once the team/s involved has prepared, cooked and served dinner we sit down and eat dinner with the families, mix and mingle and be a listening ear to their experiences.
Part of the commitment includes each volunteer making a contribution to the costs of the ingredients/food. The total cost of the food was around $300 last year which catered for 50-60 people. Minus donations from staff it worked out last year at a little over $20 per volunteer.
We are looking at Friday May 11th or Thursday May 17th as these dates are currently still available at Ronald McDonald House and I am looking to book that in early next week if we have enough people interested and the dates are still available. We probably need a minimum of 10 to enable the event to go ahead. Please let me know if you would be interested in volunteering in this activity this year and indicate which of those dates you would be available – Thanks, Tim Stedman
