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HEARTY LUNCH
It's the most important lunch date of 2011!
NI Chest Heart & Stroke wants people all over Northern Ireland and even further afield to host a lunch for friends, charge a modest entrance fee, and donate the proceeds to our work.
The Hearty Lunch is on Friday June 17, so why not start planning your own event now? The Hearty Lunch is being supported by Kingsmill, Northern Ireland's favourite loaf.
Download Hearty Lunch Information Leaflet here
Download Hearty Lunch Poster here
Download Hearty Lunch Invites here
Download Hearty Lunch Can't Attend Cards here
Listen to Hearty Lunch Radio Advert here
Listen to Hearty Lunch Radio Interview on U105 with Carolyn Stewart here
FREE NICHS HEALTHY COOKBOOK
If you need some recipe ideas for your Hearty Lunch then click here to download a FREE copy of the NICHS Healthy Cookbook for simple healthy recipes. The NICHS cookbook has 50 healthy and nutritious recipes that are low in salt, fat and sugar.
TOP NI CHEFS HEARTY LUNCH RECIPES
Some of Northern Ireland's top chefs are supporting the Hearty Lunch by providing their favourite lunch recipes to help inspire your Hearty Lunch on June 17th.
Jenny Bristow, Paul Rankin, Tony O'Neill of the Merchant Hotel and Danny Millar of Balloo House have provided NICHS with some simple and challenging healhty lunch recipes to suit all people in preparing your Hearty Lunch.
To see the recipes go to the Hearty Lunch Recipes on the main menu or click here.
HEARTY CHALLENGE
We're also issuing a challenge for people to host the most extreme lunch, the furthest from Northern Ireland, the highest, the lowest, the strangest, the fastest, the slowest. You name it; we want to hear about it.
All the latest news and events on the Hearty Lunch will be posted on our Facebook page, just click on the facebook link.
The flagship event is being held to mark our 65th anniversary. It's hoped it will become an annual date on the calendar and will be one of our biggest fundraising events of the year.
HOW TO GET STARTED
So, what do you have to do to become a part of it? Firstly, mark June 17 in your diary and get it into the diaries of your guests. They could be friends, family, work colleagues, club members or members of your church or other organisation.
If June 17 isn't suitable, you could hold it on another day. But ideally everyone will sit down to eat at 1pm on the Friday to make it Northern Ireland's biggest ever simultaneous lunch.
Then, work out what you'll offer your guests to eat. The idea is to have a healthy, cost effective meal and seek a minimum donation from each person attending, but if you want to push the boat out in the hope of encouraging bigger donations, feel free. You might also want to hold other fundraising opportunities at the lunch, such as a raffle.
To register for the Hearty Lunch email events@nichs.org.uk or telephone 028 9032 0184 for an information pack.
JENNY BRISTOW'S HEARTY LAUNCH
NI Chest Heart and Stroke (NICHS) launches the Hearty Lunch with Victoria Brown, Kingsmill, Andrew Dougal, Chief Executive, NI Chest Heart and Stroke, Ken Braiden, Stroke Survivor from Belfast and TV Chef, Jenny Bristow.
TV chef Jenny Bristow got the Hearty Lunch off to a tasty start with an impromptu lunch in the grounds of Belfast City Hall. Jenny said: "The Hearty Lunch will be the biggest lunch date in Northern Ireland, so sign up now to get your information pack and support the work of a great local charity."
The NICHS Hearty Lunch is being supported by Kingsmill, Northern Ireland's Favourite Loaf, who will provide a free Kingsmill loaf voucher for everyone who registers to take part in the 'Hearty Lunch'.
Victoria Browne, Marketing Manager, KIngsmill said "We are very pleased to be able to support the work of NI Chest Heart and Stroke and the Hearty Lunch is a great fundraising event to be part off. Everyone in Northern Ireland knows someone affected by a chest, heart or stroke illnesses."
To register for the Hearty Lunch email events@nichs.org.uk or telephone 028 9032 0184for an information pack.
