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This year The Big Lunch takes place on Sunday 2 June and with less than a month to go, things are getting busy! It’s never too late to organise your own Big Lunch and remember that you can always hold it on a different date if it works better for your community. The key ingredient [...]
Read It’s never too late to have a Big Lunch!…
2014 will be a big year for Scotland. It will be big for sport, for celebration, and also for communities. To bring all of this together, the Scottish Lottery Distributor’s Forum (SLDF) today launched a £4 million fund to help communities in Scotland celebrate both XX Commonwealth Games happening in Glasgow 2014, and Scottish links to [...]
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A Big Lunch can take as little or as much time and effort that you have to spare – all you really need is people, food and fun! With just over one month to go until the fifth annual Big Lunch, we are exited to be part of Start‘s national campaign `Be the Start`; which is finding [...]
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To gear everyone up for The Big Lunch this year, our partners Kingsmill are asking you where you love to lunch! It’s all part of a new campaign to find the UK’s favourite Lunch Spots. Kingsmill are sponsoring The Big Lunch for the second year in a row and are working in partnership with national [...]
Read Where’s your favourite ‘Lunch Spot’?…
Congratulations to Bonnie Evans Hills, winner of the Big Lottery Fund ‘Communities in Focus’ photo competition. Bonnie’s photo won the ‘Inspiring Communities’ category and was an instant hit with the judges who chose the picture from a shortlist of 300 entries. Bonnie’s submission shows residents of Oadby, Leicestershire sharing a Big Jubilee Lunch together in [...]
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In the past week The Big Lunch team has taken giant green doors to cities across the UK encouraging you to get knocking and meet your neighbours and to launch this year’s event on Sunday 2 June. From Glasgow to Newcastle, Manchester to Leicester, Wolverhampton to Birmingham, Chelmsford to Portsmouth, Plymouth to Bristol, Cardiff to [...]
Research we’ve carried out among 3,000 adults has found that more than half of those surveyed don’t know their neighbours, with one in four having no idea what their names are! The key reasons holding people back from knocking next door include a lack of time, shyness, or worries about getting on with their neighbours. [...]
As The Big Lunch enters its fifth year this year, we’re celebrating the fantastic difference our Big Lunchers have made to their communities by hosting The Big Lunch Community Awards. We want to give something back by recognising Big Lunch community action happening in villages, towns and cities across the UK. Nominations were open to all communities that have taken [...]
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Mr Burns’ birthday is coming up on 25th January. Traditionally at Burns Suppers there’s tales, poetry, dancing and of course, in true Big Lunch style, a tasty morsel for the community to share! Here are a few simple tips from our Scottish friends and partners, Love Food Hate Waste to help you enjoy the Burn’s supper [...]
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Tuesday 18th December was a very special day for two of our champions and their communities. The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visited two Big Lunch locations in London to meet and celebrate the work of Big Lunch organisers, local residents and volunteers, running Christmas events for their communities. The engagements highlighted [...]
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Big Jubilee Lunch 2012, an Eden Project
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