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We spoke to Lorna from Living Streets on the upcoming National Walking Month and how to get involved… What’s Living Streets about? Living Streets works to create safe, attractive and enjoyable streets across the UK. This May it’s the charity’s third annual National Walking Month and we are encouraging everyone to get talking about walking and discover [...]
Read National Walking Month: 60 seconds with Lorna from Living Streets…
With regards the weather, some would say we are still waiting for our summer, but in terms of summer time fun, most would agree we’ve never had it so good. From Big Jubilee Lunches, to Olympic and Paralympic celebrations, there hasn’t been a day this summer we couldn’t find something to get involved in. As adults, we’ve had so much [...]
Read Legacy of 2012 – Lottery new Trust?…
Having tasted The Big Lunch for themselves, Growing Connections (GCNI ) volunteers now happily encourage friends and organisations to have their own Big Lunch as a simple and fun way to bring more people together to share ideas and to learn from each other. Rachael, group leader and volunteer at GCNI tells us a bit more about Growing Connections [...]
Read Growing Connections with The Big Lunch…
Cast your mind back to your childhood. What are the memories that bring a smile to your face? Riding your bike, exploring new, unfamiliar places, being out and about with friends? Probably, because these are the things that today’s adults enjoyed as children, with 70% experiencing most of their adventures outdoors. Sustrans believe that it’s time [...]
Read Help Sustrans create a generation of Free Range Kids…
Jubilee honours for our Big Lunch champions Peter Stewart and Rita Broe It’s all smiles here at Big Lunch HQ today as we’ve received some royally amazing news! Our very own Eden Project Directors Peter Stewart and Rita Broe have been honoured by Her Majesty The Queen for [...]
Read Jubilee honours for The Big Lunch champions Peter Stewart and Rita Broe of the Eden Project…
Students at Glasgow’s Strathclyde University attended a Big Lunch in the halls of residence gardens at the end of term in May 2012. Organiser, Costa Rican international student, Johana, wanted to encourage students to share food and time together, celebrating the friendships she had made and her time studying in Glasgow… “I thought it could [...]
Read Strathclyde Students enjoy Big Lunch!…
Looking to host an event that would bring locals together and break down territorial barriers, PEEK Project (Possibilities for East End Kids) organised a gala day Big Lunch for service users, their families and the wider community in the East End of Glasgow. Senior Play Ranger at PEEK, Ashleigh, told us their Big Lunch story. “Working here, one [...]
Read PEEK Project’s Big Lunch Giving Possibilities to East End Kids…
At The Eden Project, from where The Big Lunch is seeded, the experience of walking around the biomes aims to promote messages about being more mindful and understanding our relationship and current dependency on the world’s plants and crops. Coming together on these issues, you can also find an extra exhibition at Eden this summer, [...]
Read Oxfam’s GROW at Eden Project…
Bringing along a tin and tucking into a buffet, locals enjoyed a Big Lunch held by Ayrshire (East) Foodbank- a branch of the UK network set-up by The Trussell Trust charity which is working to empower local communities to combat poverty and exclusion. With more and more people finding the rising cost of food to [...]
Read Ayrshire Foodbank’s ‘Bring a Tin’ Big Lunch!…
Carnlough may be better known to you as the home of Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, but don’t hold that against them. Catherine Black a community officer at Larne Borough Council heard about The Big Lunch concept and gave the campaign her support, sharing it with groups across the borough and bringing the idea to a [...]
Read Carnlough Carnival Capers…
Big Jubilee Lunch 2012, an Eden Project
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