WRVS Luncheon Club Page

ABOUT US

Stokenham Luncheon Club is run by local volunteers under the auspices of WRVS and caters for approximately 50 senior citizens of Stokenham Parish. This service has been operating at Stokenham Parish Hall each Thursday in term time for the past 20 years. Started by Shirley Stewart and Ann Baverstock and now organised by Helen Dickson and Virginia Best the club provides a two course meal plus tea or coffee each week supplemented in particularly cold weather by a cup of soup and there is always a choice of soft drinks. For special anniversaries, 90th birthdays etc. there is always an iced and decorated fruit cake, large enough for all the members and the hall and tables are decorated. Image of some of the team on a special occassion

We have several gifted and very able cooks who take turn to prepare and cook the meat course or the pudding. Helpers lay the tables, arrange flowers, prepare and cook the fresh vegetables for the meal and then serve. They also clear and sweep the kitchen, the hall and operate the dishwasher after lunch. In addition we have a series of volunteer drivers who bring the members to the lunch and return them home. Thus, perhaps there may be as many as a dozen volunteers on duty each week who not only give of their services but also lend an ear to woes and jokes and exchange the latest news for it is the human contact that is one of the essential ingredients that the club provides for the elderly members who live alone and may not go out from week to week except to the Thursday Luncheon Club.

After the traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings, followed by sweets and mince pies, children from Stokenham Area Primary
sang carols and Ed Welch provided accompaniment for the whole gathering with a fine rendering of The Twelve Days Of Christmas
table by table. A great occassion.