10th December 2007
The GCT, in line with our declared aims to engage and promote Glentoran Football Club within the community of East Belfast, and also delivering on our promise to return the proceeds from the recent
GCT 125th Anniversary Ormeau Park Festival to Charitable and Worthy Causes, are delighted to announce that on Monday 10th December 2007, and in association with “Engage with Age”, we brought 200 of East Belfast’s Senior Citizens together at the Park Avenue Hotel Belfast for a free Christmas Lunch!
The event cost the GCT in the region of £4,000 to deliver, money raised through the generosity and sponsorship of Glentoran supporters and businesses who helped celebrate our tremendously successful birthday event of 7th October – a small price to pay, and a Christmas thank you to some of those who have supported and helped Glentoran Football Club prosper throughout the last 125 years!
We couldn’t invite everyone of course, but with the kind assistance of Laurence Wright of “Engage with Age” and Alan McIlhagger of “Age Concern”, we endeavoured to compile as broad and representative a cross-section of East Belfast’s elderly population as we possibly could.
A list of all those who accepted invitations and attended the lunch is detailed below.
A special thanks to Anne Greenan & Beryl Carson of Belfast East Seniors Forum, and GCT member Brian Dawson for all their assistance in giving up of their time to help make the event such a resounding success.
Merry Christmas from all here at the GCT, and we hope everyone had a wonderful day!
The following Groups were represented at the lunch;
Arty Crafty, Knocknagoney
Senior Citizens Club
1st Ballymacarratt Presbyterian
Senior Citizens Club
Avoniel over 50+ Group
Senior Citizens Club
Ballymac Lunch Club
Senior Citizens Club
Bloomfield Old Time Dancing
Senior Citizens Club
Dean Crookes Fold
Senior Citizens Club
Dee Street SC Group
Senior Citizens Club
East Belfast & C/reagh A Concern
Senior Citizens Club
Edenvale Senior Citizens Group
Senior Citizens Club
Golden Years Club
Senior Citizens Club
Greenville Court SC Group
Sheltered Housing
Individuals
Older people isolated
Knocknagoney over 60’s
Senior Citizens Club
Inverary Fold
Sheltered Housing
Loopland Fold
Sheltered Housing
Lower Woodstock OP Group
Senior Citizens Club
Men United
Senior Citizens Club
Mullan Mews
Sheltered Housing
Short Strand Lunch Club
Lunch Club
Short Strand Corner Boys Club
Senior Citizens Club
St Comcilles
Senior Citizens Club
Strand Presbyterian Hope Club
Senior Citizens Club
Sunshine Club (Blind Centre)
Senior Citizens Club
Sydenham Court
Sheltered Housing
Sydenham Methodist Seniors Group
Senior Citizens Club
Walkway Friendship Group
Senior Citizens Club
Wisecrackers Older Mens Group
Senior Citizens Club
Castlereagh Lifestyle Forum
Senior Citizens Club
