PICTURES: Inverness Caley Thistle Community Trust lay on a feast fit for kings – and festive friends

It was a feast fit for kings, but also the chance for older guests of Inverness Caley Thistle Community Trust to get their fill of friendly chat.

The annual Festive Friends Christmas Lunch, four days before Santa’s visit, went down a storm with 85 in attendance, with the Caley Jags squad and their manager, Everton legend Duncan Ferguson, taking time to mingle and share conversation and laughs.

Community trust manager Craig Masterton said: “It is a lunch we’ve laid on now for a good number of years now and it serves to give socially-isolated older people the opportunity to come in and enjoy a fine Christmas dinner and socialise with peers.

“We also invite season ticket holders, our walking footballers, the football memories group attendees and it all comes within an Alzheimer’s friendly environment.

“It was a great day, with 85 diners attending. They got to meet the players and the manager came up and spent time chatting to a lot of our guests.

“That’s a huge thing at Christmas, to have someone of his standing in the game come and spent time with you.”

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