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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 group members and friends.

How Does it Work?

Your Home for Dinner experience will start at 2:45pm and finish at 8:00pm.

  1.  Select a date and register your booking date using our online booking system.
  2. Payment of your contribution fee is required as part of the booking process. Corporate contribution fee is $1,650 (inc GST), Community Groups contribution fee  $1,100  (inc GST)
  3. Turn up to Ronald McDonald House at QEII at 2:45pm.
  4. 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.
  5. You'll do a kitchen induction with the Min Res in-house chefs and run through the dinner menu your team will be preparing.
  6. Get slicing, dicing, mixing and cooking!
  7. Dinner service begins at 5:30pm. Help serve the meal you've cooked to families in the dining room.
  8. 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.
  9. Clean up: you'll help clean up the commercial kitchen.
  10. Your Home For Dinner experience finishes at 8pm.

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.
Baker Hughes team in the commercial kitchen
Team in the kitchen cooking
Team serving dinner as part of Home for Dinner experience
Families eating dinner in the dining room at RMH at QEII

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.

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

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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.