Come Dine @ Mine for Clatterbridge, Your Cancer Centre

BBC Radio Merseyside and our charity partner Clatterbridge, Your Cancer Centre, are giving you the chance to beat the winter gloom and raise money at the same time.

All you have to do is think of a group of friends and invite them to "Come Dine @ Mine," on Saturday February 5th.

They'll each make a donation in return for your hospitality.

We hope you'll have a great time taking part in the region's biggest simultaneous dinner party.

So far this year, we have raised more than £70,000 to help patients who are being treated by Clatterbridge clinicians at the hospital in south Wirral, or at various centres across Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire. There will soon be a satellite centre at Aintree University Hospital.

We now need to raise another £30,000 before the partnership ends in April.

The money will be used to create two overnight rooms plus bathroom and kitchen for families with a loved one undergoing in patient treatment.

Come Dine @ Mine is a perfect opportunity to mix socialising with charitable fund raising.

We are asking people across the area to come together on February 5th - maybe a few close family and friends, or it could be fellow members of a sporting or theatrical club.

Linda McDermott

To get you into the party spirit there will be a special Come Dine @ Mine with me show on BBC Radio Merseyside with Linda Mc Dermott and friends getting the conversation underway and playing some suitable mood music.

Your Come Dine @ Mine pack contains:

• A donation envelope for your friends' contributions

• Blank menus and ideas from Merseyside chefs and BBC Radio Merseyside presenters

• Invitations to make sure everyone is on the guest list

• Quiz sheets

• Place cards

• Gift Aid form. Fill in the details and the charity can make your donation go even further.

To register for a pack click here Come Dine @ Mine , email [e-mail] or call 0151 482 7948.

The Liverpool Cookbook have added their support to the event, offering the book for just £6, (RRP £14.99) to all of those who sign up to receive a Come Dine @ Mine Party Pack. The book features recipes from the city's finest talents, including Paul Heathcote, Liz McClarnon (Celebrity Masterchef Champion 2008), and TV chef Simon Rimmer, as well as a delicious signature pudding from Marco Pierre White himself."

And don't worry if your diary is already full for February 5th. You can register for your pack and hold your dinner party over the next few weeks.