Aberdeen Christmas Dinner 2026

In 2025, We Are Here Scotland was approached by acclaimed poet and advocate Lemn Sissay to explore the possibility of helping to host a Christmas Dinner for care-experienced young people aged 18-25 in Aberdeen on Christmas Day. This initiative is part of a wider movement led by the charity Lemn founded, The Gold from the Stone Foundation which has successfully delivered Christmas Dinners across the UK since 2013. To date, there have been 155 Christmas Dinners, across 35 Locations, over the last 11 years. Rooted in community-led care and action, these events aim to ensure that no care-experienced person feels alone on Christmas Day when so many others are surrounded by family, friends and community.

With the support from The Gold From Stone Foundation and Aberdeen City Council, we are now in the very early stages of planning a Christmas dinner for care experienced young aged 18-25 years old on 25th December 2026. But in order for this to happen WE NEED YOUR HELP. We are looking to create a steering group committee in Aberdeen of 10-15 people from mixed disciplines, unemployed, self-employed, creatives, anybody who wants to get involved in doing something positive for our care experienced young people of Aberdeen.

Community is at the foundations of our work as a grass roots organisation, and we want to offer a joyful, dignified, and meaningful experience for care experienced young people in a warm and welcoming environment, giving them a Christmas they will never forget, whilst also become part of an amazing national movement of social community care, that is needed more than ever.

If this sounds like something you'd like to get involved in and you’d like to be a Steering Group Committee Member then please head to the link HERE  to download the form, once completed please email your form to aberdeenchristmasdinner@gmail.com alternatively you can complete your form answers by audio or video and send these via WeTransfer or a Dropbox link.