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London’s Euston Station Hosts Christmas Dinner For The Homeless
London’s Euston station has been transformed into a festive dining hall as it awaits 200 homeless guests for Christmas dinner.
Network Rail, which runs the rail network and operates the station, joined forces with charities Streets Kitchen and St Mungo’s to host the dinner, to fill the main concourse with decorations and lay the tables for dinner.
Around 45 volunteers from Network Rail are giving up their Christmas Day to work alongside volunteers from St Mungo’s, which provides beds and support to more than 2,700 people in England, and Streets Kitchen, which feeds 1,000 people on the streets every week.
Tables set now! It’s a #EustonChristmaspic.twitter.com/GelFo3QL6u
— London Euston (@NetworkRailEUS) December 25, 2017
Our wonderful volunteers wishing you all a merry Christmas. #eustonChristmas@networkrail@VirginTrains@LNRailway@LDNOverground@CalSleeperpic.twitter.com/2jS8MRhqzD
— London Euston (@NetworkRailEUS) December 25, 2017
Mince pies and volunteers- nearly Ready for lunch. pic.twitter.com/2nHlAshvMY
— London Euston (@NetworkRailEUS) December 25, 2017
The first guests will start arriving at 11am for food, presents and goody bags of toiletries and clothes. Additionally, 200 children from local schools have made Christmas cards for all who attend the event.
Steve Naybour, head of transformation in Network Rail’s track team, who is leading the team running the event, said: “Thousands and thousands of my colleagues will already be working on Christmas Day to improve the railway for passengers.
“Working on Christmas Day is pretty much par for the course for many of us who work for Network Rail but this year, because I wasn’t scheduled to work, myself and a handful of colleagues came up with this plan to feed some of London’s homeless instead.
These #EustonHeroes cooking up a storm for #EustonChristmas at @CarltonPrimary
#SolidarityNotCharitypic.twitter.com/AtIiruqd3j— Streets Kitchen (@streetskitchen) December 24, 2017
200 children from the local school wrote letters to the homeless who are coming to have lunch with us at #EustonChristmas#ChristmasDaypic.twitter.com/Hq0k11bpqo
— Boglarka Kosztolanyi (@kboglarka_) December 25, 2017
Today I’m helping @NetworkRailEUS@networkrail & @colasrailuk feed 200 homeless Londoners #EustonChristmaspic.twitter.com/Dhd2xsSA5e
— Ewen Rankin (@EwenRankin) December 25, 2017
“St Mungo’s and Streets Kitchen have been fantastic. And I’m proud to say we’ve had lots of interest from Network Rail colleagues to volunteer to come along on the day to help out.”
Joe Hendry, Euston station manager, said: “Stations are at the heart of local communities and we want to provide a legacy through good relationships with organisations like St Mungo’s and Streets Kitchen that supports the homeless community in and around our station long after the buzz of Christmas has died down.”
Well done #EustonChristmas for making Christmas so much better for those who really need it. Merry Christmas to you all.
— Andy Gilman (@GilmanAndy) December 25, 2017
Truly wonderful to see Euston station hosting Christmas dinner for over two-hundred people. #EustonChristmas
— Kristian Ross (@Kristian7Ross) December 25, 2017
#EustonChristmas is such a beautiful idea, along with other spaces and places doing so. That’s the true spirit of christmas. Long may it continue,
— Reubs (@reubenoconnell) December 25, 2017
Congratulations to everyone volunteering their time to offer meals and shelter to others #EustonChristmas and elsewhere across the country! Merry Christmas.
— Ros Micklem (@rosmicklem) December 25, 2017
Congratulations to everyone volunteering their time to offer meals and shelter to others #EustonChristmas and elsewhere across the country! Merry Christmas.
— Ros Micklem (@rosmicklem) December 25, 2017
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