Settle Community Christmas Day Meal 2025

The Settle Community Christmas Day Meal will take place again this year 2025 at St John's Methodist Church, Settle BD24 9JH !!!

Please tell your neighbours an friends, and especially people who might be lonely, sad or bored this Christmas and who live in Settle or at a village nearby. We have a great time at this occasion.

1. Download and print a larger version of this poster to print and give to a friend.

2. Download a booking form or get a printed one from AgeUK or The Place or Settle Hub (see below).

Programme: - 

All parts are optional -  you can sit and chat in the "Garden Room" or rest or play board games there if you prefer.  Attend the whole day or just part.

If you need transport we can arrange it.

(We can also deliver take-aways, either lunch or tea for a limited number of people who are housebound)

11.45:Arrive, coffee, soft drinks nibbles,- The Garden Room 

12:00 Carols, - The Carol room (/worship room)

12.30 Dinner - The Hall

2.30 A few gentle party games, pass the parcel, party pieces: (Hall or Carol Room) (Bring your poem, song, reading, but must be less than 2 min long) 

4:00 Tea. (Coffee Lounge)

5:00 Depart

This is made possible - through the help of 

Local volunteers (who generally take part in the meal too too)

The people of St John's Methodist Church who enable us to use their facilities

Age UK, The Place (For being a base for holding forms) and Settle Hub

The guests who come and take part, 

The price has been kept to £10 (£5-00 for children) because of support from local traders and others. Last year these included  Drake and Macefield Butchers, The Naked Man Café, Booths, Trevors, and the Coop - sorry if I have missed someone. 

If people can't manage £10, then please see me Judith Allinson who attends the church and does the much of the organising - there is a bursary fund for this.

If you would like to come - please book by filling in the form obtainable from Age UK, Settle Hub or The Place or downloadable here.  Please leave money and completed forms at either at Settle Hub office or The Place both with the address Commercial Courtyard,  BD24 9RH, or the Age UK shop in the Market Square. If you would rather pay by BACS and  send emailed versions of this form contact Jo Rhodes on hub@settlecommunityandbusinesshub.org.uk and she will send BACS information

The form has a section for dietary needs.  We plan to make vegetarian and vegan options available.  It may not be possible to cater for all allergies so please check first. 

Meanwhile here are links to reports of three of the events that were held over the ten years before Covid. 

Settle Community Christmas Day meal 2014 - Pictures and videos

Many enjoy Settle Christmas Day Meal 2015 - Pictures

Settle Community Christmas Day Meal 2017

Volunteers in 2018:

Pictures from 2019 - the last time we held such a meal when we had 70 people.

(Our meal in 2025 will be a more select gathering, with 40 to 50 people.

Tea

Volunteers

Volunteers are participants in the day and pay/donate the same as guests.

Volunteers are needed to help in many ways

- with publicity before the day

- with planning, and collecting donations

- with food and present and table preparations on the morning of Christmas Eve (Wed) (peeling potatoes etc) 10-12

- with chatting to new people as they come and have coffee before the meal.

-with taking part in the activities.

-with transport

-with serving food

with collecting dishes and tidying up.

We will have a volunteers' meeting on Thursday 18 November at 6pm in the church coffee lounge. 

If you are interested in helping, please contact Judith