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Paul Kerrigan, Big Lunch Community Awards finalist, tells us how getting involved in The Big Lunch has helped his local community reconnect and how the good ideas discussed at their event have gone on to develop into some great community action. “Ballycastle is a lovely picturesque sea side town located in North Antrim however due [...]
Read A Big Lunch in Ballycastle Bringing Local Ideas to Life…
Eileen from the scattered rural Scottish community of Colintraive share’s the story of their first Big Lunch in 2012. “Colintraive (“the place of the swimming”) is a small village in Argyll at the narrowest point of the East Kyle of Bute. The rural community is scattered along a length stretching 20 miles and it is [...]
Read Colintraive’s Community Big Lunch…
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!…
In June 2012, Par Community Association organised a Big Jubilee Lunch with the aim of bringing people together to improve their sense of community. This Big Lunch was supported by The Department of Communities and Local Government and Sonia Clyne share’s their story. “Local groups embraced the event, bunting was made by a workshop for [...]
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…
Here Sandra, from Bearsden near Glasgow, shares her poignant Big Lunch story about a day to celebrate one inspirational neighbour and how she brought everyone together on Dumgoyne Drive. “I live in a quiet, residential drive where, like most neighbourhoods throughout the country, people are polite and happy to say hello in their driveways, but they’re [...]
Read Bearsden Big Lunch Celebrates Special Neighbour…
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…
Today, being World Food Day, is a chance to stop and think a bit more about food. But before you skip to planning your next meal or deciding on your favourite recipes, World Food Day asks us to consider a little more. The date is set aside by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of [...]
Lisa’s street in Canterbury has always held street parties, here she shares her top tips and why it’s important to get to know your neighbours. ‘We live in a road with only thirteen houses in it, so it’s important for us to all get along and to have a sense of community. We have [...]
Read Coming Together in Canterbury!…
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…
Big Jubilee Lunch 2012, an Eden Project
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