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. By simply preparing 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 colleagues and friends.
How Does It Work?
1. Select a date and register your booking date.
2. Payment of your contribution fee is required upfront, so we will be in touch to take your credit card payment. Corporate contribution fee is $1,650 (inc GST), Community Groups contribution fee $1,100 (inc GST)
3. If you feel like taking full advantage of the experience, please feel free to choose your own theme to ‘dress up’ in. This is always a big hit with our families!
4. Arrive at our Nedlands House by 3pm on your selected date. There’s no need to bring anything but your team members!
5. Enjoy a beautiful tour of our Nedlands House.
6. Complete a kitchen induction with our catering supervisor and run through the dinner menu you will be preparing for our families.
7. Get slicing, dicing, mixing and cooking!
8. Dinner service begins at 5.30pm. Help serve your home-cooked meal to our families.
9. We’ll invite you to sit down at approx 6.30pm to enjoy your meal! It also gives you the chance to chat to the families who you’ve cooked for.
10. All-important clean up! Wrapping up at approx. 8.00pm.
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.
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Testimonials
“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
Acknowledgement of Country
Ronald McDonald House Charities WA acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. We pay our respects to Elders, past and present for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Indigenous Australia. We recognise their enduring and continuing connection to the sky, lands, waters, and culture of this land.