Tips and recipes for fundraising food
A regular lunch event is a great way to raise money, or selling food from around the world adds to any fundraising event.
Choose a day or date each month, and hold a special fundraising lunch with your friends and family.
It could be at your house or the house of a friend or family member, in the kitchen at work, or in a local community or parish hall
Put up posters advertising the lunch and remember to let everyone know that it happens once a month.
The, take it in turns with family, friends and colleagues to make enough for everyone to share.
Once you have collected the money from the lunch, send it in every few months to the main CAFOD office in Brixton (if you are doing this as part of livesimply, please include a note stating which promise you have signed up for)
And finally remember - experiment, have fun and enjoy the time together
Here are some tasty dishes from the UK and overseas to try out
![]() | Simple soups for a livesimply lunch Two soup recipes provided by Lucy Harrison, from CAFOD's community fundraising team, as part of her livesimply promise to hold a simple lunch each month at work |
![]() | Brazilian apple cinnamon and oat cake This recipe comes from one of Brazil's partners in São Paulo – an organisation that teaches women how to cook healthy and delicious food with natural ingredients |
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