ISLE of Wight chef, Paul Thorley, has raised more than £6,000 for the Wessex Cancer Trust, selling Christmas meal boxes using locally sourced ingredients. As an alternative to the usual Christmas work do, Island businesses have been treating their staff to Paul s packaged three-course meals instead. I ve been doing these boxes since the first lockdown and they ve been really successful, said Paul, of Yummy Boxes. The idea originally was to have a black-tie, fine dining event as a fundraiser, but obviously we couldn t do that, so I did meal boxes instead. I normally do 40 or 50 a time, but the minute I launched it, Wight Fire and Security bought 46, and another company wanted 42.