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How to get involved
Top 10 ways
to join our
Big Family
Christmas
1. Big Family Christmas lunchPlanning a special Christmas lunch with your friends, family or colleagues? You can have fun raising funds by hosting a Big Family Christmas lunch.
One idea could be to host a bring-a-plate lunch, and ask guests to donate the usual cost of their midday meal to Mary’s Meals.
3. Big Family Christmas cardsWish your loved ones a happy Christmas this year with a Mary’s Meals Big Family Christmas card.
Not only will you be sending love and festive wishes to your friends and family, you’ll also be giving the gift of hope to children in desperate need. Visit our website to order yours.*
4. Share the hope and joy of AdventAdvent is a time of peace, joy and giving, bringing people together through faith, friendship and family. It offers a wonderful opportunity to reach out to impoverished communities around the world and send hope to hungry children.
Our Big Family Christmas Advent pack has lots of ideas to support your Advent preparations, including messy play activities and an all-age talk. Download one for your parish or congregation on our website.
5. Set an extra place at your Christmas tableFrom 1 December, you can set a place at our virtual Big Family Christmas dinner table and set a hungry child up for a whole school year.
Your personalised dinner plate can then be viewed alongside hundreds of others from all over the world, as the Mary’s Meals family gathers – virtually – around the dinner table for our Big Family Christmas.
Visit our website from 1 December to find out more.
2. Loose change can make a big change!Download a Big Family Christmas collection box for your home, church, school, club or business and save up pennies to feed hungry children in school. It costs just £13.90 / €15.60 / $19.50 to feed a child with Mary’s Meals for an entire school year, so a little goes a long way.
Download your own cut-out collection box template, along with some easy-to-follow instructions, on our website today.
9. Who will you invite? The best part about a Big Family Christmas is that everyone’s welcome! Let your friends and family know they’re invited too by sharing one of our special cover photographs on your own social media profile.
You can download a beautiful Big Family Christmas-themed cover photograph or graphic from our website, and help us spread festive joy across Facebook and Twitter – and to the lives of children in some of the world’s poorest communities.
6. A Christmas promiseEvery single little act of Christmas giving means a brighter future for a hungry child. Make a promise this festive season, and support a different child every month with Mary’s Meals through regular giving.
Set up a regular gift to Mary’s Meals this Christmas and, every month, you’ll be letting another child know they matter.
7. Say a prayerFor many of us, Christmas is a special time to celebrate faith. Please remember our work in your prayers this festive season. We rely on the prayers of thousands of supporters around the world to bless our mission and help us keep our promise to the children who depend on Mary’s Meals.
8. Unwrap a child’s future this festive season!Give your family or friends the perfect present this year by making a £13.90 / €15.60 / $19.50 donation in exchange for a Big Family Christmas gift card. Each card sent to your loved one, feeds a hungry child for a whole school year. Now that’s some uplifting gifting! Visit our website to order yours.*
10. Give the gift of a good read Christmas is a time for miracles. Our founder Magnus’ bestselling book, The Shed That Fed A Million Children, recounts the miraculous way in which Mary’s Meals grew from a tiny tin shed in rural Scotland, to a global movement feeding more than one million children.
If you’re stuck for a Christmas gift, this could make an inspiring stocking filler for someone you love.
*Available in select countries only
Christmas is a time of peace, joy, hope and giving, bringing people together through faith, friendship and family.
This is a special moment for the global Mary’s Meals family to share what we can with those who lack even the most basic things, bringing year-round joy to children through life-changing daily school meals.
There are so many ways you can get involved in Big Family Christmas, and you can choose just one – or all ten! However you choose to participate, every single little act of Christmas giving means a brighter future for a hungry child with our Big Family Christmas campaign.
Join Mary’s Meals’ Big Family Christmas and help us keep our promise of a nutritious daily meal in school to the 1.2 million children already enrolled in our global school feeding programme, and – as funds allow – to reach out to more hungry children waiting for Mary’s Meals.
Whether you live in Seattle, Seville or Southampton, join Mary’s Meals’ Big Family Christmas and spread hope across the world with life-changing daily school meals for the world’s poorest children. Join Mary’s Meals’ Big Family Christmas at: www.bigfamilychristmas.com
About Mary’s MealsMary’s Meals is a global movement that sets up school feeding projects in some of the world’s poorest communities, where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. Our idea is a simple one that works. We provide one daily meal in a place of learning in order to attract chronically poor children into the classroom, where they receive an education that can, in the future, be their ladder out of poverty.
Today, we feed more than one million hungry children every school day across five continents, in countries including Malawi, Liberia, Kenya, Zambia, Haiti, Uganda, South Sudan, Thailand and India. The average worldwide cost for us to feed a child for a whole school year is just £13.90 / €15.60 / $19.50. Where Mary’s Meals is provided, there is a rise in school enrolment, attainment and attendance. To find out more about Mary’s Meals and for ways to get involved, please visit www.marysmeals.org
About Big Family
Christmas
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Ways to donate
Online: www.marysmeals.org
Bank transfer: Using the bank details below
Account name: Mary’s Meals InternationalIBAN: GB69 RBOS 8326 2410 7419 28BIC: RBOSGB2L or RBOSGB2LXXX (if your banking system requires 11 digits in this field)
Once you have donated the amount, please let us know by emailing [email protected]
Thank you for your support.
Registered charity: SC045223 | Limited company: SC488380
LOOSE CHANGE CAN MAKE A BIG CHANGE!
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Join our Big Family
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How to make your Big Family Christmas collection box
Step 1After printing your collection box, follow along the dotted lines to cut the box out. Children should be helped by an adult. Cut any dotted lines between panels as well. Be careful not to cut along any solid lines.
Step 2Cut out the coin slot on the top panel.
Step 3Fold the box along all of the solid lines.
Step 4Stick tab A to the underside of the coin slot panel to create the body of the box.
Step 5Fold all four of tab Bs into create the sides of the box.
Step 6Fold the side panels and tuck both of the tab Cs into the sides to create the box.
Mary’s Meals, Craig Lodge, Dalmally, Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom, PA33 1AR | Registered charity: SC045223 | Limited company: SC488380
www.bigfamilychristmas.com
This event is part of Mary’s Meals’ Big Family Christmas – and you’re invited! Mary’s Meals is an international charity which sets up school feeding projects in some of the world’s poorest communities, where hunger and poverty prevent children from gaining an education.
Together, lets share what we have with those who lack even the most basic things, and make a child’s future sparkle this Christmas.
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