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Hannah Phillips from Gateside in Fife, Scotland- the winning town of Tesco’s UK’s Friendliest Street- was inspired to enter her village into the competition earlier in the year after the success of their Big Jubilee Lunch back in June. Here’s a bit more on their day of celebrations in this community-minded town… “The weather shone [...]
Read Getting together in Gateside for a Big Lunch…
This year The Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution in Porthcawl organised their first ever Big Lunch as part of their Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The residential home invited local residents, relatives and neighbours to their buffet lunch which their residents helped to make. One of the organisers, Rebecca Timms, tells us how the day went and shares [...]
Read Welcoming new friends: care home open their doors to local community…
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…
We love to give Big Lunchers the chance to share their stories with others. This week’s comes from one of our longest standing Big Lunch veterans, Tony Mitchell from Bromley, London. Take a moment to read Tony’s story. Since 2009 when a neighbour and I got involved in the first Big Lunch, I’ve been organising [...]
Read Lunch with the Pope presents its first Playing Out event…
Emma Nicol is part of a campaign group called Save North Kelvin Meadow. This year they organised a Big Lunch on the local green space in Glasgow, in collaboration with the local community council. Here she tells us a bit about their campaign and their Big Lunch day. “Since 2008, North Kelvin Meadow has become [...]
Read A Big Lunch in North Kelvin Meadow, Glasgow…
We have just a few Big Lunch 2012 branded t-shirts, bags and table cloths left at Big Lunch HQ, and we want to send them out to our super Big Lunchers. For a chance to get one of the last 2012 materials please send us 300 words or more about why you had a Big [...]
Read Last of The Big Lunch materials!…
“It was a day when everything fell happily into place to conjure up a little old-fashioned togetherness” reported The Brechin Advertiser after the success of Gardner Memorial Church’s Big Jubilee Lunch. Led by organiser, session clerk Peter George, who was supported by a dedicated group of volunteers, the church held the celebrations in St Ninian’s [...]
Read A Big Jubilee Lunch in Brechin…
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…
Big Luncher, Rachael in Northern Ireland, had been knocking on doors in her home town for years collecting money for charity, but didnt know all the people she spoke to. That is until she heard about The Big Lunch, joined forces with a neighbour and organised a day to bring everyone together. Seeing how well food brought her [...]
Read Comber Community Comes Together for Big Lunch!…
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!…
Big Jubilee Lunch 2012, an Eden Project
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