Home for Dinner
The joy of cooking together, for WA families with ill or injured children.
A home cooked meal is often taken for granted and it's for that reason we set up ‘Home for Dinner’. The program invites you to cook a meal from the heart, for families with ill or injured children who rely on Ronald McDonald House Charities WA.
After a long day of hospital appointments, cooking a meal may be the last thing on a parent's or carer's mind. For ten years, we’ve been proud to partner with Mineral Resources (MinRes) who employ two chefs, Tommy and Zi, to ensure our families have a nourishing meal at the end of each day. By simply helping Tommy and Zi to prepare a homemade dinner for our families, you can help make things a little easier at a time when they need it most.
Each year, we will provide 50,000 lovingly home cooked meals for WA families staying across Ronald McDonald House at QEII, Ronald McDonald House on Park and Ronald McDonald House in PCH. So, join us for a very special giving experience to share with your group members and friends.
How Does it Work?
Your Home for Dinner experience will start at 2:45pm and finish at 8:00pm.
- Select a date and register your booking date using our online booking system.
- Payment for your Home For Dinner experience is required at time of booking.
- Turn up to Ronald McDonald House at QEII at 2:45pm.
- We will take you on a tour of RMH at QEII where you’ll get an understanding of the programs and services available to families through Ronald McDonald House Charities WA.
- You'll do a kitchen induction with the MinRes in-house chefs and run through the dinner menu your team will be preparing.
- Get slicing, dicing, mixing and cooking!
- Dinner service begins at 5:30pm. Help serve the meal you've cooked to families in the dining room.
- Dinner time: we'll invite you to sit down at approx 6:30pm to enjoy your own meal! It also gives you the chance the chat to the families you've cooked for.
- Clean up: you'll help clean up the commercial kitchen.
- Your Home For Dinner experience finishes at 8pm.
How much does it cost?
- A Community Home For Dinner is $1,100 inclusive of merchant fees and GST.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
- Is there a minimum age requirement? The minimum age for participation in the Home for Dinner program is 16 years.
- Is there a maximum group size? We have a maximum capacity of 10 team members in our commercial kitchen.
Any additional team members can get involved by decorating the dining room to a theme or setting up activities for families staying with us to enjoy over dinner.
- Can we dress up? It’s always a big hit with families if one of their favourite movie characters serve them dinner! If you feel like taking full advantage of the experience, please feel free to choose your own theme to ‘dress up’ in.
Book a Home For Dinner experience for a community group
Want to book an experience for a corporate team? See our booking page for organisations.
A message from our in-house chef partners MinRes
“We hope that by providing a home-cooked meal it offers families comfort, stability and a sense of normality in a time of uncertainty.
At MinRes, we know the importance of a good meal because we’ve seen firsthand how it impacts the wellbeing of our own employees. Just as we prioritise the health and wellbeing of our workforce, we want to extend that care to families going through a difficult time. By taking one daily task off their plate, we hope to make a hard time a little bit easier.”
– MinRes Executive General Manager People Facilities and Logistics, Bethanie Ibrahim
Enquiries
If you have questions about Home For Dinner or our other group cooking offerings, fill out the form so our Volunteer Manager can respond to you