#givingBackToTheLocalCommunity

Can you help us provide meals for

homeless people in Norwich?

We launched our #givingback initiative in 2019 to thank  Norfolk for supporting us. Our aim is to spread love and support throughout our amazing county. When we launched this project our aim was to bring local lonely people together during the festive season with a free meal and gifts.

It's time to extend this project to support those in need throughout the year and this year we start by Supporting "Norwich Homeless Support" by raising money so they can purchase meals for the homeless in Norwich.

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We want to show people we are thinking of them and they are not alone!

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We hope this initiative will grow and that other restaurants and local business owners will join us to make Norfolk even more special! We are here to support you with a focus on community projects to help prevent loneliness.

Jorge, Owner & Manager, Jorge's Restaurant

Why support Norwich Homeless Support?

"We beleive that having a home is not an entitlement, it is a RIGHT"! No one should go without food or drink!

In collaboration with Norwich Homeless support, we are raising money so they can provide weekly lunches for the homeless in Norwich. The currently go around Norwich with their food buggies two days a week and plan to increase this to 5 days a week in March but we need your help to raise more funds assisting them with their goal. 

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How can you help?

You can gift a meal or a week of meals for a homeless person in Norwich. Here is how:

On our takeaway ordering system you will see we have added two options allowing you to purchase meals for the homeless.

1. Buy a meal for a homeless person in Norwich for £4

2. Buy a week of meals for a homeless person in Norwich for £20

Simply add the meals you would like to gift to your takeaway order and 100% of your gift will go to the charity allowing them to increase their lunch service from 2 days a week to 5 days.

You can also gift money to our dedicated giving back PayPal account with any value (small or large) using the email jorge@jorgesrestaurant.co.uk (Please use the reference "Norwich Homeless"

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Thank you for helping us to support our local community! Together we can make great things happen.

Read testimonials from people that have received help from Norwich Homeless Support

Homeless person, Norwich

Eric Hewson, thanks to you I'm housed for tonight, the system is broken and there is many like me falling through the cracks and not getting the help we deserve as humans.... thank you for your support

Homelss person, Norwich

Eric at Norwich Homeless Support has been helping me for the last couple of weeks after getting nowhere myself, within a couple of hours I was booked into a hotel for a couple of nights and met with Eric the next day to go through my options. We managed to get the council to help me for a week while swep was activated but then last Tuesday I was back on the streets with nowhere to go for the night. After speaking with Eric I'm currently being put up in a hotel paid for by Norwich Homeless Support and checks have been made to make sure I'm ok and next I will be moving into a hostel

Previous struggling person, Norwich

I now own my own flat which I've only got in the recent months. I know what it is like living with nothing and I know from first hand how much these handouts helo, so from everyone you are helping, thank you so much.

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It is people like you who have kept me going in my time of need and for that I owe people such as yourselves my life and time.

Can you nominate a charity

for us to support this Christmas?

We want to make this event extra special & also need local companies to sponsor us with the following services:

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• Live Music

• Christmas Decoration

• Christmas Crackers

• Cards from Local school Children

• 20 Boxes of Christmas chocolates 

• 20 Boxes of Christmas biscuits

• 20 Boxes of Christmas themed cakes

• 20 Gifts tbc dependant on the charity & guests attending

• 20 Gift bags

• Printing of Christmas stationery & promo materials

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As a thank you all event sponsors will get their logo, contact details & website link on our website throughout the event promotion. 

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Proposed Event Date

Monday 20th December 2020

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Can you help us?

Please contact Eleanor

0780 644 1856

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You can also donate money​

If you are unable to support is in one of the above ways but would like to contribute you can donate any amount of money small or large to our dedicated giving back PayPal account. Please use the reference: CHRISTMAS2021

Testimonials from previous #givingback events

It’s a great privilege to be Sheriff because you go around and see a great amount of good work that goes on in the city and that is an enormous privilege but it is very rare that you come to an event like this which is a completely new incitive. Where we haven’t got empty promises about goodwill to mankind. We’ve actually got generosity beyond and above any kind of generosity I have ever seen in the city. And I just wanted to say a huge thank you to Jorge and to Eleanor & to Age UK Norwich for bringing this together. With the choir to the children that were here, with the presents that were given. Not often am I moved to tears, but I’ve been in tears all afternoon at the generosity that has been shown today. And what I’m really hoping is that they might have started an incitive today that might take off, because I can see there is a real amount of good will and people wanting to help and not knowing how. So, let’s see if we can harness this wonderful incitive & take it one step further for next year and beyond.

Marion The Sheriff of Norwich, Speech given at our Giving Back 2019 Christmas Event

Photos of our Giving Back event 2019

OUR FUTURE GOAL

We hope that other restaurants will join us and together we can create a big

annual event helping many local charities.