New Meal Sharing Site Teams Up with Charity Encouraging British Foodies to ‘Get Together’ this Thanksgiving
GiveADinnerParty.com will donate £40 extra to the first 100 events for Action Against Hunger’s Great Get Together campaign.
Food lovers around the UK are being asked to step up to the plate this Thanksgiving by hosting a dinner party with a difference, to raise vital funds for severely malnourished children.
The Great Get Together, launched by Action Against Hunger UK, encourages people to get together with friends and family, share a tasty meal and make a donation in appreciation of their culinary prowess. The money raised will contribute to the charity’s life-saving work in nearly 50 countries worldwide.
Allowing people to create an online ticketed event for their Great Get Together, innovative meal sharing site GiveADinnerParty.com (GADP) has partnered with Action Against Hunger, creating a space for people to promote their event to friends and family, and also find and join dinner parties in their local area. By signing up to host an event on the site and following the simple, signposted process to select Action Against Hunger UK as the chosen charity, events are then listed on the site for members to buy tickets and join in the worthy cause.
To help support the campaign further, GADP will donate an extra £40 directly to Action Against Hunger UK for the first 100 dinner parties with four or more guests that are listed on the site – a great way to boost fundraising at no extra cost to the host!
Mark Viegas, Founder of GiveADinnerParty.com said: “We’re thrilled to be part of a campaign which will both bring people together and result in real change to the lives of those less fortunate around the world. This cause is one close to the hearts of many and is especially poignant around Thanksgiving, a time of abundance, which is why we have chosen to give additional donations to the first 100 events. We hope to see many people and communities getting involved and signing up to make a positive change!”
Jean-Michel Grand, Executive Director of Action Against Hunger UK said: “Right now, our teams are carrying out life-saving work in some extremely challenging crises, including in north-east Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen.”
“We simply couldn’t do this work without the incredible generosity and kindness of individuals. We hope the people of the UK will get behind our campaign and help make this year’s festival extra special – showing thanks for the nutritious food they have while raising funds for those that don’t have enough.”
Following the growing trend for Thanksgiving celebrations in the UK, with one in 6 Brits embracing the tradition*, The Great Get Together encourages people to use this foodie feast for good by helping to raise more than £35,000 for the organisation’s work in some of the world’s most desperate and under-reported food crises. The campaign is hoping to see more than 1,000 Get Togethers taking place across the country on and around 24 November.
Everyone that signs up to host a Great Get Together will also receive a free dinner party pack, which includes a range of recipes, and there’ll even be some fun party games to help make it a night to remember.
For more information go to www.giveadinnerparty.com / greatgettogether.actionagainsthunger.org.uk
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*according to a 2014 Waitrose survey
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About Give A Dinner Party
Launched in 2016, Give A Dinner Party is a unique online platform allowing people to connect with like-minded individuals from their local community to share meals, make friends and raise money for charity.
Utilising a simple interface, users are allowed to either attend, or host an event by simply picking a date, selecting a menu and ticket price, then choosing which charity will benefit.
Users can host/attend all manner of gatherings in a variety of locations – be it breakfast, brunch, tea & cakes, nibbles & drinks, dinners, picnics, barbecues, the sky’s the limit!
Give A Dinner Party currently works with 50 of the largest charities in the UK, with a minimum of 50% of the cost of each ticket sold going to charity.
Visit www.giveadinnerparty.com or follow GADP on Twitter at @Givedinnerparty or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/giveadinnerparty for further information.
About Action Against Hunger
Action Against Hunger is an international humanitarian organisation committed to ending child hunger. Recognised as a leader in the fight against malnutrition, Action Against Hunger works to save the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with sustainable access to safe water and good nutrition. With 30 years of expertise in emergency situations of conflict, natural disaster and chronic food insecurity, Action Against Hunger runs life-saving programmes in nearly 50 countries helping 13.6 million people last year. www.actionagainsthunger.org.uk | Registered charity No 1047501
