(Some of) What we did this week…

• Continued preparing for all your December meals! Remember to spread the word to anyone you know who’s London-based about our launch in Newham - send them this link to invite them to book on! 🥙
• Maintained momentum towards the release of our Digital Cookbook, including developing a way to order a copy of the cookbook for a loved one in exchange for a one-off donation 🎁
• Conducted further research on new funding opportunities and submitted some more applications 💰

🪪 We’ve designed leader cards!

After receiving feedback from many of you on wanting to find a way to…

1. Be more visible as leaders during meals
2. ‘Authenticate’ your connection with Local Welcome when attending accommodation and drop-ins to invite people seeking sanctuary and refugees to attend meals

…we’ve designed ‘leader cards’ (to be placed in name badge holders), for you to wear during meals and drop-in visits. We’re aiming to post the cards and badge holders to you in time for your December meals, so please could you organise for one leader per group to receive the leader cards, and direct message us the best postal address?

🧠 Reminder: Book onto our next Reflective Practice Session!

Our next quarterly 50 min reflective practice session is on Wednesday 10th December at 5:30pm 💜 (For those who attended the last session - please note we’ve moved this back a week!)

These sessions are an opportunity to:

• Pause and check in with yourself, and other leaders
• Share, reflect and have your experiences of being a leader listened to, whilst in a supportive space with peers
• Discuss and exchange potential solutions to try out, which you can reflect and feed back on at the next session

Attendance is not compulsory, but we’d love to see as many of you benefit from them as possible! You can book yourself a spot here: https://calendly.com/localwelcome/local-welcome-reflective-practice-session

📖 Reminder: Be the first to receive our digital cookbook!

As you all know, we’re releasing our first ever digital cookbook, featuring 10 tasty recipes we've developed over the years.

This collection of recipes has been lovingly curated by you, and the members of your groups, as well as other amazing people who make up our UK-wide Local Welcome community.

We’ll be emailing our digital cookbook to all our members and supporters, and from then on, anyone else who signs up as a member and supporter between now and the end of the year. Therefore, if you’d like to pre-order, please make sure you’ve already signed up as a member!