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# Service manager appointed at Lunch Positive
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/service-manager-appointed-at-lunch-positive/
- Published: 2015-11-10T11:08:36.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-10T11:08:36.000Z
- Description: Following a recent recruitment process for a part-time worker at Lunch Positive, the charity has appointed Gary Pargeter to the post. Lunch Positive provide a healthy meal once a week at Dorset Garden Methodist Church for people who are HIV positive. Gary started the charity in 2008 and has been the
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: In The South, Jobs, News, Lunch Positive

## Following a recruitment process for a part-time worker at Lunch Positive, the charity has appointed Gary Pargeter to the post of Service Manager.

![Lunch Positive logo](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/web-60012.jpg)

**Lunch Positive** provide a healthy meal once a week at Dorset Garden Methodist Church for people who are HIV positive. Gary started the charity in 2008 and has been the volunteer project manager for the last seven years.

**Steven Foster, Chair of Trustees, said: *“*** *We’re delighted to appoint Gary to this post. The recruitment process has been stringent and robust, and this new post is a necessity to build resilience for our organisation and develop our services.*

Gary previously volunteered at the Open Door HIV Project for ten years, has seventeen years of voluntary experience within the HIV community, and brings a wealth of other management skills and experience from previous employment.

![Gary Pargeter](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/web-600-81.jpg)

Gary Pargeter

**Gary said:** *“I’m hugely grateful to be appointed to this new post, and feel privileged to serve the charity and the HIV community. I was diagnosed HIV positive in 1992, and have spent my entire life in Brighton & Hove. Throughout that time I have seen and experienced that life with HIV has evolved and changed for many, but can still be turbulent, unpredictable and can present many challenges. I have a deep-rooted belief in community and what can be achieved when people spend time together and support each other.*

*“Volunteering has been a hugely important and massively formative part of my life, and I am passionate that this should give everyone involved the best possible experience for themselves and others. We have an amazing volunteer team, great members and peer-supporters, and I look forward to doing all of my very best for the HIV community through our work at Lunch Positive.”*