Can anyone remember the name of this charity?

[TheRossatron]

It was based on Christmas Day basically inviting lonely people to your house for dinner rather than them being alone. It was called extra chair or something but I can't find it?

Spare Chair?

Nope 🤔

I think it was inviting a lonely vulnerable person round for a meal once a week like for Sunday dinner

There was certainly a campaign - basically a Bisto advert- called Spare Chair Sunday.

And then John Lewis did something through one of their Xmas adverts butni don't remember a specific charity.

Spare a chair I think is what it was called

Sounds horrific - can you imagine being Lady Bountifulled while you’re labelled lonely and vulnerable?

I'm not trying to be Lady Anything I'm just considering helping a couple of people who are probably dreading Christmas because for someone like me with no kids or husband it's no bigger a deal than any other holiday so I may as well do something productive. I assure you I won't be spreading it thick on Facebook to show everyone how utterly amazing I am! I've found it now thanks to the bisto reference, cheers 👍

I think the charity behind it was age uk?

Not much help but there used to be adverts on London Transport asking people to drive//host old people once a month. Would London Transport be able to tell you the charity?

https://www.reengage.org.uk/latest-news/article-3/

Sorry @TheRossatron - I didn’t mean you personally, just as a general idea it seems awful to me.

No worries. I think it's a great idea but only if it's done without being patronising and not doing it for social media praise.