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Caf茅 Hope's Christmas Dinner

Rachel Burden opens up Caf茅 Hope at Christmas to some special guests who are making the festive season better for their community.

A Caf茅 Hope with a difference as Rachel Burden speaks to a range of guests who are making the festive season better for their community.

We hear from author Lemn Sissay about the Christmas dinner for young care leavers, Nicola Marshall who started meet and grief get togethers after the death of her son, and newsagents Shashi and Deepan Patel talk about how opening their shop on Christmas Day over 20 years ago, has now turned into an annual Christmas party with hundreds attending over the day.

Caf茅 Hope is our virtual Radio 4 coffee shop, where guests pop in for a brew and a chat to tell us what they鈥檙e doing to make things better in big and small ways. Think of us as sitting in your local caf茅, cooking up plans, hearing the gossip, and celebrating the people making the world a better place.

We鈥檙e all about trying to make change. It might be a transformational project that helps an entire community, or it might be about trying to make one life a little bit easier. And the key here is in the trying. This is real life. Not everything works, and there are struggles along the way. But it鈥檚 always worth a go.

You can contact us on cafehope@bbc.co.uk

Silent Night performed by the Lighthouse Choir
Arrangement by Kirk Franklin
Composed by Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber

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