Fundraise for Brighton & Hove Care Leavers Christmas Dinner 2026

Every Christmas Dinner begins with people coming together. ❤️

This Christmas, care experienced young people, volunteers, local businesses and supporters across Brighton & Hove are coming together to create a magical Christmas Day celebration for young care leavers, filled with festive food, gifts, activities, laughter and opportunities to connect.

And we'd love you to be part of making it happen!

Whether you fancy taking on a fundraising challenge, gathering a few friends together or doing something wonderfully ridiculous, every contribution helps us create a day of celebration, connection and belonging.

And we've got a little campaign to get things started...

🧚🏼‍♂️ 50 Fairies in 50 Days 🧚🏼‍♂️

50 Fairies. £50 each. £2,500 together!

We need 50 Fundraising Fairies. Could one of them be you? ✨

Our Head Fundraising Fairy has a mission:

Find 50 Fairies in 50 days.

And if you have a Fairy team, bring extra team sparkle! ✨

Each Fairy has one simple challenge:

Raise £50. However you fancy.

Run. Bake. Swim. Sing. Sell something. Hold a quiz. Ask ten mates for a fiver. Do something wonderfully ridiculous.

Because...

🧚🏼‍♂️ 50 Fairies × £50 = £2,500 ✨

Small acts of magic become something much bigger when we make them together.

🧚🏼‍♂️ BECOME A FAIRY

✨ DONATE TO OUR 50 FAIRIES

🪄 Our Fairy Community 🧚🏼‍♂️

Fairies found: 6 / 50

Magic raised: £450 / £2,500

We'll introduce some of our Fairies and Fairy teams, and their wonderfully inventive challenges, in our image carousel below and on Instagram.

Some might share their stories with full glitter.

Others may prefer to flutter quietly beneath the radar.

Both are very welcome. ❤️

✨ How does it work? 🧚🏼‍♂️

🧚🏼‍♂️ Join

Become one of our 50 Fairies.

💡 Choose your magic

Find your own way to raise £50.

💷 Raise

Share your challenge with friends, family, neighbours or colleagues.

❤️ Bring it together

Your fundraising joins all the other Fairies' in our collective £2,500 pot.

That's it. No fundraising experience or wings required.

Although wings are very welcome 🧚🏼‍♂️

✨ £50 is our shared invitation, not a pass or fail.

If you raise £23, that £23 joins the collective.

If you unexpectedly raise £83, wonderful.

And if your cake sale somehow becomes a Brighton-wide baking phenomenon and raises £500, we'll probably ask whether you'd like to become Head Fundraising Fairy next year!

What matters is that 50 people choose to do one small thing together.

💫 Need a little inspiration?

🏃 Run 5k · 🌊 Take a sea dip · 🧁 Bake cakes · 👕 Sell old clothes · 🎨 Make and sell something · 🧠 Hold a quiz · 🎤 Organise karaoke · 🐕 Walk 50 km with your dog · 🍝 Cook for friends · 🏢 Get your workplace involved · 👯 Ask ten friends for a fiver · 😜 Invent something completely ridiculous · 🪩 Throw a little party · 💇 Donate the proceeds from something you do.

And if you've got a wonderfully ridiculous idea we haven't thought of? Even better.

Your magic. Your way 🧚🏼‍♂️

❤️ Rather Make a Donation?

Not everyone has the time to organise a fundraising challenge, and that's absolutely fine!

If you'd like to support the Brighton & Hove Care Leavers Xmas Dinner without becoming a Fairy, you can make a donation directly through our Open Collective.

Whether it's £5, £20, £50 or whatever feels possible, your contribution helps us create a wonderful Christmas Day for young care leavers across Brighton & Hove.

You can choose to support our 50 Fairies campaign or contribute to the wider Christmas Dinner celebration.

✨ SUPPORT OUR 50 FAIRIES

Or contribute directly to the wider Christmas Dinner celebration:

❤️ DONATE TO XMAS DINNER

Every little bit of magic matters. ❤️

🪄 Will you be one of our 50?

We'll send you our little Fairy Guide with everything you need to get started.

50 Fairies.

50 days.

£50 each.

£2,500 together.

[ 🧚🏼‍♂️ YES, I'LL BE A FAIRY ]

All fundraising contributions and donations are collected through our Open Collective, where you can see how funds are raised and spent.

Together, we're making more than a Christmas Dinner. We're helping weave a wider web of connection, community and belonging. ❤️

✨ Contact ✨

📧 Email: hello@brightonxmasdinner.com

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