# Waitrose offers five gourmet dinners to community groups

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/11/17/waitrose-offers-5-gourmet-dinners-community-groups/
- Published: 2017-11-17T17:46:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Supermarket Waitrose is offering volunteers and community groups the chance to
win one of five dinner parties. The food will be cooked by a top chef or chefs near
to each winner’s location.**

 

Waitrose is inviting nominations for people who deserve such a thank you. “They 
might be hard-working volunteers whose efforts go unsung. Or staff at a caring organisation
who’ve gone the extra mile. Or they might be a group of like-minded people who meet
up regularly, perhaps to sing, read or walk.”

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The dinner parties will be held in 2018.

 

Locations for the parties will be chosen by Waitrose, with the aim of enabling between
10 and 30 people to be invited to each.

 

## Celebrity chefs

 

Chefs who are taking part in the thank you scheme include Great British Bake Off
star Martha Collison, Michelin-starred Atul Kochhar, and twins David and Stephen
Flynn, also known as The Happy Pear.

 

Each will cook their speciality cuisine. Collison will provide afternoon tea, Kochhar
will cook an Indian-themed meal, and The Happy Pear will focus on vegetarian and
vegan dishes.

 

![Waitrose community spirit - #ChristmasTogether](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.
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## How to nominate?

 

In this case Waitrose defines community groups as:

 

 * **formal groups** like choirs, book clubs or ramblers groups, or a sports team
   or members of a dance club; or
 * **unofficial groups**, such as a collection of people who have got together to
   help someone else or have survived a tough year.

 

Nominations must be made via the [Waitrose website](http://www.waitrose.com/christmascompetition).
Entrants will need to tell Waitrose about the group of people they would invite,
why they deserve a meal cooked for them, and whereabouts they are in the UK so that
dates and venues can be arranged.

 

Entries can be made until midnight on Sunday 10 December 2017.

 

 

 

## More ways to thank volunteers

 

 * [Room to Reward](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/09/11/points-of-light-award-to-room-to-reward-founder/)
 * [The Landmark Trust’s #50forfree](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/11/13/landmark-trust-offers-50-short-breaks-free-charities/)

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## Comments

### By: harry grower

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/11/17/waitrose-offers-5-gourmet-dinners-community-groups/#comment-3197
- Published: 2017-11-19T16:41:00+00:00

Maybe I am a being a bit of a cynic, but it strikes me that Waitrose will be getting
a lot more out of this than will the volunteers and community groups. I would have
thought that a volunteer who wins this prize does this because of how they feel 
about there cause, not because there is the possibility of a physical reward. Perhaps
a quiet certificate and token reward, plus getting he cost of putting on this prize-
giving meal as a donation to their charity would be far more relevant and probably
appreciated. But then Waitrose would miss out on the publicity……