Sherborne Community Kitchen Managers Harry and Jill showed Shelley from NFU Mutual how the kitchen operates after NFU Mutual (Sherborne) have made a fantastic donation of £6,451.62. NFU Mutual have chosen Sherborne community KItchen as their nominated local charity.

​Shelley commented "As a Mutual we are always looking for deserving causes to support. This year we were looking for charities that had made a significant difference to the local Sherborne Community during the Covid pandemic, and we chose SCK without hesitation".

Harry commented "This donation will allow us to continue to deliver high quality, freshly produced lunches to the vulnerable and needy in Sherborne and the surrounding area"

At the end of November, 'The Friends of Sherborne Preparatory School' set off on a virtual challenge of 32,400 miles to visit 'Friends Around the Globe'.  Visiting Doha, Singapore, Auckland and Tianjin, China they were able to hold virtual assemblies with their friends and learn about our amazing planet on the way. By logging their walks, runs, cycles, swims, rows and even skiing the amazing Team has propelled the schools Red Dragon across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the heat of the Australian outback and the bitter Siberian Winter all with the aim of raising money for the Sherborne Community Kitchen Charity. 

The event raised a staggering £1,118.75 of which £715 was presented as a cheque, the remainder was via the schools Just Giving page. Ian Crighton, a trustee of the SCK was delighted to receive the cheque from the Headmaster Nick Folland and new head girl and boy at the school, Mia and Archie. 

At the end of November, 'The Friends of Sherborne Preparatory School' set off on a virtual challenge of 32,400 miles to visit 'Friends Around the Globe'.  Visiting Doha, Singapore, Auckland and Tianjin, China we were able to hold virtual assemblies with our friends and learn about our amazing planet on the way. By logging our walks, runs, cycles, swims, rows and even skiing our amazing Team has propelled our schools Red Dragon across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the heat of the Australian outback and the bitter Siberian Winter. In the coming week our intrepid Red Dragon will be coming home after a phenomenal journey without a plane, train or automobile in sight!

Please help us raise £324, 1p/mile, for the amazing Sherborne Community Kitchen who have done such an incredible job looking after our local community in these difficult times.
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Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving - they'll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to the charity. So it's the most efficient way to donate - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

Thank you.

​Stephen Fisher - Team Operation Red Dragon

Florence, a nine year old flutist who played her flute in Sherborne Town Centre to raise money for our charity, met a few of the volunteers of Sherborne Community Kitchen and received a big thank you for her efforts in raising £200. Socially distanced and wearing masks, our volunteers provided Florence with a bunch of flowers and chocolates to say a very big thank you for her efforts.

A young, talented flutist, Florence from Sherborne raised £200 for Sherborne Community Kitchen over the Christmas holidays by playing to the local residents in Sherborne's Cheap Street.  Florence's proud mother commented, "I have to say,  I was blown away by the kindness of all the passing shoppers.  They stopped, clapped, took pictures and said what a worthwhile cause she was raising funds for.  They were so generous". We are also so proud of Florence and her very kind contribution. Thank you so much Florence for thinking of us and for making such as wonderful donation to help us with our continued work we do to help the vulnerable in Sherborne and the surrounding areas.

We are noticing an increase in the number of vulnerable in Sherborne and the surrounding areas contacting us for our FREE 2 course daily lunches. To help us fund our work, we are now reaching out to those in Sherborne who would like to make a donation to our cause. To make it easier to donate, we have setup a JustGiving page to make your donation pledge easier. To donate just visit the page https://www.justgiving.com/sherborne-communitykitchen
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Happy New Year to all our customers, partners and volunteers. The winner of this fabulous Christmas cake created by Tina at Kafe Fontana and donated as a prize with proceeds going to Sherborne Community Kitchen is Alison MItchell. Alison was presented with the Christmas cake by Kafe Fontana's owner Tina just before Christmas. Congratulations Alison from the team at Sherborne Community kitchen.

The pupils of Sherborne Preparatory School were busy at work during term time, creating wonderful Christmas cards for us to deliver with our free three course lunches this Christmas day. We are sure our customers will enjoy reading the words written by the children. So we would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the students and teachers of Sherborne Preparatory School.

The volunteers would like to take this time to thank the organisations and individuals who have donated to help us deliver our three course Christmas lunches and surprises to our vulnerable and lonely Sherborne residents this Christmas Day. With the current restrictions on visiting loved ones this year, we are sure that these Christmas Day lunches will bring a little cheer to all that receive them, so once again a very BIG THANK YOU to you all.