Donations allow Downham restaurant to cook up free up meals for Queen Elizabeth Hospital staff

A Downham restaurant is cooking up meals for hospital staff after receiving community donations.

The Downham Tandoori restaurant has been requesting for £5 donations so they can send meals to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

This week, the High Street business will be sending dozens of meals to the QEH as part of its ‘Friday Night Appreciation Curry’ scheme.

The meal includes a curry, rice and side dish.

So far this week, the restaurant has made more than 200 meals for the cause.

This comes after donating a final total of 120 meals last week.

Posting on social media on Sunday, a member of staff said: “We have already received donations for another 40 meals for next Friday.

“So on top of the 50 meals we are sending this is currently 90 meals. This is amazing guys, thank you so much.”

Anwar Ali, who founded Downham Tandoori with his brother Abdul, is collecting donations through his PayPal account at Milon771@hotmail.com.

Donations need to be sent before 2pm tomorrow for this week’s delivery.

“This is then easily traceable and we can personally thank every donator on our Friday evening [Facebook] post,” Mr Ali said.

“We will be offering Friday Night Curry every week until things get a bit back to normal. Stay safe.”