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We’re delighted yet another spectacular Big Lunch – millions of people took to their streets, gardens and community spaces for the fifth annual event on Sunday 2 June and we know that there are many more planned summer. This year our patron Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall popped into The Big Community Grow [...]
I’ve been lucky enough to have worked on The Big Lunch since it started back in 2009 – as a very simple, yet ambitious idea developed by the Eden Project. Co-founders Sir Tim Smit and Paul Twivy had a clear vision and together a small team set off on an exciting journey, with the aim [...]
Read The Big Lunch – marking five years……
Bellenden Road has had a Big Lunch every year since 2009, here one of the organisers, Deborah Doane, shares her anticipation for their 5th Big Lunch! “Less than two weeks to go until our annual Bellenden Big Lunch and I can sense the anticipation in the air. Bellenden Road is a long road in South-East [...]
Read The Bellenden Big Lunch and Baking…
Mae Emma Knight, o Gastell Nedd yn hen law ar y Cinio Mawr, ac mae wedi cynnal un ers y cychwyn yn 2009! “Llwyddodd ei stryd hi i ennill gwobrau Cymunedol y Cinio Mawr; a daeth Emma i’r seremoni wobrwyo yn Clarence House i dderbyn ei gwobr gan Ei Mawrhydi Duges Cernyw. Yma, mae hi’n [...]
Read Parhau â’r Cynnwrf Cymunedol…
The prestigious Big Lunch Community Awards ceremony took place at Clarence House yesterday, hosted by our patron Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall. Our five winners were selected from the 35 nominees that were shortlisted earlier this month. The judging panel, including a representative from our funder The Big Lottery Fund and celebrity [...]
Read Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall presents The Big Lunch Community Awards…
The Department for Communities and Local Government has provided £185,000 over two years to enable the Eden Project to support selected areas where there has been little or no participation in The Big Lunch to date. The aim is to build local residents’ confidence and skills to host their own Big Lunch and equip them [...]
Read Doncaster Big Lunch supported by DCLG…
Residents of Aberystwyth’s Gerddi’r Ffynnon and Gerddi Rheidol came together with the help of Cantref and Mid-Wales Housing to throw a Keep Wales Tidy Tea Break to warm up for their The Big Lunch this June. Local families of both housing estates came together to enjoy some tea and cakes with each other at Gerddi’r [...]
Read Aberystwyth residents throw a Tidy Tea Break to warm up for The Big Lunch…
Judy Williams, chair of The St Nicholas Court Residence Association in Swansea, held their first Big Lunch last June to celebrate the Queens Diamond Jubilee. Here she shares her top ten tips for getting your Big Lunch off the ground: “Our Big Lunch was a huge success with over 70 people attending; including friends, neighbours [...]
Read Don’t be afraid to have a go!…
In June 2012, Members of Canton Community Gardens worked with staff from Chapter Arts Centre to arrange their first Big Lunch in the new community garden at Chapter, in Cardiff. Here, Michael Goode, from Canton Community Gardens, tells us how their Big Lunch event allowed the local community to come along to taste some local food, whilst [...]
Read Community Garden’s Big Lunch Sprouts up in Cardiff…
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 [...]
Read The Big Lunch Community Awards…
Big Jubilee Lunch 2012, an Eden Project
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