From the Chaplain

From the Chaplain

Cooking with love: A great opportunity that the whole community can be involved in                                             

Welcome back! If you managed to have a holiday, I hope it was a good one and I look forward to seeing you all throughout Term 3.

SCEGGS has had a great connection to many of the local welfare agencies for a long period of time. One of those services that we consistently are working with is Rough Edges, a community centre for the poor, lonely and marginalised, located under the hall of St John’s Anglican Church, Darlinghurst. Twice a week, our staff take whatever leftover food we have at the end of the day from our cafeteria to Rough Edges so that they can provide it to those that attend this centre. To find out more about what Rough Edges is and does please have a listen to the current episode of our podcast.

 

The SCEGGS Podcast “Walk The Mile” Episode 25: Rough Edges

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Unfortunately on Monday nights, food is difficult to come by for the Centre so I am wanting to propose an opportunity where we might be able to help out. I am hoping that people could make cooked full meals, enough for about five people. My goal would be to have about 12 families or individuals doing this each week to meet the usual amount of clientele who seek out food from Rough Edges. It wouldn’t have to be a regular weekly commitment and with the more people that we have involved, the more we can share the love around. I am imagining that the food would be dropped off to school on a Monday morning and I would deliver it to Rough Edges later that day. There are obviously other logistical issues that need to be considered but at this stage I would just love to hear from you if you are interested. I have a list of menu ideas and preparation requirements to share once I get some feedback from the community. Please let me know asap if you are interested via email so we can get the process going. I think this would be a great thing for us as a school community and a great thing for our local community.

Garry Lee-Lindsay
Chaplain