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Last weekend the brand new Big Lunch Trail was launched at the Eden Project in Cornwall. For the next five weeks visitors can follow a treasure hunt across the site to find the 7 Big Lunch exhibits dotted around, which represent 7 key elements to holding your own Big Lunch in their community. Once all [...]
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Since our last update on Big Lunch launches, we have visited Salisbury Churches Community Action Group down in the South West, where they are hosting their own ‘Big Jubilee weekend’ for the local residents. Jon Langford, Associate Leader at St. Paul’s Church and key organiser of Salisbury’s Big Jubilee Weekend says ‘The whole purpose of the [...]
Mayor of Armagh City and District, Councillor Freda Donnelly welcomed The Duchess of Cornwall to the Palace Demesne Big Jubilee Lunch today, one of the first events to celebrate their award of Lord Mayoralty status as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee honours. The Duchess of Cornwall has recently become Patron of this year’s Big Jubilee Lunch, [...]
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Social media networking has created a new world which is more open and connected than ever before, where friends, relatives and strangers all over the world can be reached within seconds. But what about the people who live just down the street? A recent YouGov survey found that over 50% of UK adults would [...]
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Love Food Hate Waste is actively supporting The Big Lunch this year with an aim to help us all have an amazing party but without any of the waste. Did you know we waste over 7 million tonnes and £12 billion worth of good food and drink every year in the UK just from our [...]
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Sweeten up your Big Lunch this June with this scrummy Fudge recipe from Big Lunch supporters Douwe Egberts. A perfect to street party recipe you can cut up and share with your neighbours…if you can bear to part with it! Ingredients: 150g toasted macadamia nuts, roughly chopped 100g glacé cherries, roughly chopped 450g light brown [...]
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Last Saturday Steve Burrell, from the Eden horticulture team, held a special Big Lunch seed sowing workshop in Truro, Cornwall to get some locals growing for their lunch. Here’s how he got on: “On Saturday we sowed the seeds of a Big Lunch, not only in the minds of visitors to Truro Library, but [...]
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Barbara Windsor MBE visited Madame Tussauds London yesterday, to bring together four wax figures of well-known faces from the worlds of music, history, sport and film, to show who she would most like to bring to a Big Jubilee Lunch table on 3rd June this year. Barbara, who is the Mayor of London’s official street [...]
We’re pleased to announce this Easter that messages of support have been receieved across the nine major faiths in the UK. In an unusual display of support across the main faith groups, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of Westminster and Chief Rabbi, along with leaders from each of the major faiths, have embraced The Big Jubilee Lunch [...]
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National Camping and Caravanning Week is taking place between 2nd – 8th June, so we’ve joined forces to get as many Big Jubilee Lunches happening on over 2000 sites across the UK. The Camping and Caravanning Club is a celebration of the nation’s growing love of camping, caravanning and the great outdoors. It seems like the perfect reason [...]
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Big Jubilee Lunch 2012, an Eden Project
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