Bolton retail park there's a little bit of Christmas magic taking place. A space which was previously occupied by a Ninja park has been filled with pallets stacked high with non-perishable food and drink items and over the course of the weekend, almost 200 volunteers visited the unit to help pack Christmas dinner hampers for the most vulnerable people in the borough.
The annual project, which is called 'Christmas Dinner On Jesus', is the brainchild of Dave Bagley - the founder of Bolton's Urban Outreach charity.
Explaining how the inspiration for the project came about, he said: "About eight or nine years ago now, I did an assembly at St James's High School in Farnworth, and I said to the kids 'if Jesus was going to take you out for lunch,.
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