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Mum Spends £1,000 Making Christmas Dinner For People In Sheltered Housing

Mum Spends £1,000 Making Christmas Dinner For People In Sheltered Housing

Mo Fayose and her volunteers made sure that people weren't lonely this Christmas

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

Christmas is a time for giving, and one mum in Nottingham has really got into the spirit this year, spending more than £1,000 on Christmas dinners for people less fortunate than her.

44-year-old Mo Fayose - alongside her 20-strong team of volunteers - made full Christmas dinner for more than 100 lonely or isolated people living at a sheltered housing complex.

The mum of two, who has actually done things like this for a few years now, served up the whole shebang - turkey, soup, smoked salmon canapes, chicken, fish - and forked out about £1,000 of her own money for the pleasure.

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Mo said: "This is for people who are isolated - who can't get out of the house, elderly people, people with children.

"The oldest person who has attended has been 88.

"When people start seeing Christmas stuff on the shelves and the lights go up, it sends people into depression.

"But if they know there is a group of them in the community, it makes them happy.

"I use a mobile cooker in the garden of the building with a marquee.

"I have volunteers, and we decorate it as if we are having a wedding."

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As mentioned, Mo has actually been doing stuff similar to this for a while now. However, in recent years her efforts have become better recognised and more people have been helping out. That means that the dinner keeps getting bigger.

The whole event cost about £2,000. There rest of the money was made through charitable donations.

On top of hosting the event, her volunteers also delivered a load of stuff to those who couldn't make it.

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Mo continued: "I got the idea for it when I was doing my mental health nursing degree.

"I was so excited because it was Christmas - but one patient said to me 'stop it, woman - not everybody likes Christmas'.

"She said she wasn't looking forward to Christmas because it's a lonely time.

"I then did research into festive loneliness and found out many people would rather be in hospital than at home, because they wouldn't be on their own on Christmas day."

She added: "I now do this throughout the year for elderly people and people in independent living.

"I am divorced, and I was lonely as well - I didn't realise until I started doing this.

"I find it fascinating to come together with people who all share similar journeys with me."

Featured Image Credit: SWNS

Topics: Food, Christmas, UK News, News, Inspirational