Lunch Positive the HIV lunch club have been running regular monthly Sunday lunches for people with HIV have been running for the last six months, funded by The Rainbow Fund.
THE Sunday Lunch project has been a pilot over the autumn and winter months to give more opportunities for people with HIV to have social time together, share a meal and benefit from peer-support.
A Lunch Positive volunteer, said: “It’s been great to see faces return that we haven’t seen for a while, be able to spend more time getting to know people and hear how much getting together has helped. It’s also been really enjoyable volunteering in a setting that’s socially intimate and has helped us as a team”.
Gary Pargeter, Volunteer Project Manager added: “This pilot has been very successful, with around 20 people on average coming to each Sunday session. It’s been especially useful in helping people get together who are more isolated and those who find coming to the weekly Friday sessions difficult, either because they are working or find larger gatherings too busy. We’ve heard great feedback. It’s also been very uplifting to see our volunteers excel – they’ve taken on every aspect of putting it together, and have left me with very little needed to do!”
“The project has generously been supported by a team of volunteers from Metropolitan Community Church with great success, and Lunch Positive has also recruited six new permanent volunteers as a result.”
“Thank you to the Rainbow Fund, MCC, our own volunteers and everyone who has come along – this has been a fantastic six months, and monthly Sunday Lunches will resume in the autumn this year.”
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