May 2018: Dine at Mine

Hold a dinner party and support our Children's Emergency and Trauma Department.

Where: Your home or garden, workplace, village hall, restaurant, hotel or school hall.

When: Pick any date to suit you and your guests ideally in May, but this can be done anytime throughout the year.

Who: Invite friends, family, work colleagues, school friends, neighbours, and community groups. If you plan on making it a big thing, think about setting up a committee made up of friends, family or colleagues to help with ideas and organisations.

How: Think about having a theme for your dinner party. You could choose a murder mystery, vintage, mad hatters tea party, orpick a specific era or county and then tie in some of the food or decorations to this theme. Or why not choose a Royal Wedding theme to celebrate Prince Harry and Megan Markle's wedding on 19 May 2018!

Price: Charge whatever price you want for guests to attend your event.

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We're here to support you.

We have a created number of fundraising materials to help you with your event including:

• Downloadable dinner party games (Charades, Who Am I?, Musical Chairs, Chinese Whispers, Music Trivia).
• Poster templates for you to display your menu.
• Recipes by 2012 MasterChef winner, Shelina Permalloo @shelinacooks, and restaurateur of Lakaz Maman @lakazmaman. For the most inventive Dine at Mine dinner party Shelina is offering 2 meal tickets as a tasty prize at her exquisite restaurant!
• Top fundraising tips.
• And much more...

About our Children's Emergency and Trauma Department Appeal

24 hours a day, 365 days a year our incredible paediatric team look after young people and babies in one of the UK’s busiest children’s emergency departments.

As an emergency service, our treatments and outcomes are among the best in the UK, but our current facilities do little to ease the anxiety felt by children and families during an often scary and stressful time.

Together with The Murray Parish Trust we are fundraising to significantly enhance the environment, making it a more child friendly and safe place to be, helping to reduce stress for everyone involved, and allowing our staff to deliver the very best care for those who need it the most. 

With your support we can ensure that children from Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Dorset, Devon, Wiltshire, Berkshire, West Sussex, the Channel Islands and Oxfordshire are treated in a department which has been designed with their specific needs in mind. This department is expected to see 30,000 children a year,  so get cooking and help us make this new department a reality.

Read more about the appeal here.

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