04 Apr Seniors Lunch & Learn

The Seniors Lunch and Learn is a collaboration of the Burnside Gorge Community Centre and Wellspring Support.

Since September 2011 we have been providing the seniors with a nutritious lunch consisting of homemade soup, coffee and tea, and in recent years, dessert! This is followed up with an activity such as a community outing, or perhaps a presentation by a company or organization of interest to the group.

Staff and participants from Wellspring Support purchase, prepare, set up, serve and then clear away the lunch items. There is a great sense of pride from the team, and they all work together to put out a lunch each and every Thursday. The staff, participants and seniors enjoy catching up with one another each week and it really has a community feel to it.

There have been a few changes over the years. We started out with four seniors in a small room and we have now grown to serve 25-30 seniors in the largest room. Due to Covid we yet again had to make a change. We no longer have the seniors coming to the centre, instead we package the soup and it is delivered to their homes.

We look forward to the future when we can once again provide our soup in the centre and chat with our seniors again. Until that day we will keep doing what we are doing, and we extend a special thanks to Kim Rackliff who has been the mainstay of Wellspring’s participation in this project over all of these years, who coordinates all of the volunteers, and who makes sure that the soup is ready rain or shine!

As MS, one of our participants said, “It’s nice to have the seniors look forward to having a different soup each week.”