Trinity Winchester were delighted to have head chef Chris Baker from Rick Stein Winchester join them in the kitchen on Wednesday 14th July to serve his homemade lasagne for around 50 Trinity clients. Sue Mckenna, CEO, said “The food was delicious, it was a special treat for everyone at Trinity. We are really looking forward to exploring training and learning opportunities with the restaurant to help get some of our clients back into employment”.

Trinity is a charity providing support to homeless and vulnerable people in Winchester and the surrounding area. The charity operates from a day centre in central Winchester, offering practical and emotional support, to get people out of homelessness and ready to move onto independent living and into employment.

During this year, Rick Stein Winchester have already taken part in Trinity’s Big Sleep Out, raised money through their charity lunches, supported their upcoming World Homeless Day Dinner and have additional cooking dates booked in for later this year.

Louis Rogers, General manger at Rick Stein Winchester, said “As well as helping to raise £1200 earlier in the year through our charity lunches, it’s been great to support such a wonderful local charity in any way we can.”

The charity has been overwhelmed by the support received by the restaurant and are looking forward to continuing building their partnership to help deliver on their mission which is to be the ‘go-to’ safe place for homeless and vulnerable people in Winchester

Trinity Winchester hosted its first Women’s Pampering Evening on Tuesday 18th June for its clients. Ladies were able to enjoy afternoon tea with scones, cakes and sandwiches whist dancing along to the strings of the Ukulele band. A variety of different treatments from hair and makeup to manicures and Indian hand massages were available for clients to enjoy throughout the evening.

Sharnna Carter, Community fundraiser at Trinity said ‘It was a lovely evening for all the women involved and gave them a chance to be pampered and feel special. The women were completely overwhelmed by the support, kindness and generosity, and are looking forward to the next one.”

It wouldn’t have been possible without all the generous donations and support from Lane Clark & Peacock, Solent University’s beauty team and Waitrose & Partners Chandlers Ford.

The Trinity Art Group were invited to participate in a paper craft workshop run by recent graduate Imogen Marooney at Winchester School of Art.

The workshop was part of Imogen’s final degree show work. It was really enjoyable and the Trinity Art Group were pleased to be included in the creative Art school community

Trinity Winchester are extremely honoured to have received the Business Excellence award for charity of the year, we are among some of the best businesses, proud to be Winchester.