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Northern Irish eyes are smiling because last week the Big Lottery Fund awarded four Lottery grants totalling nearly £240,000 to community projects that can now go on to inspire people to get more involved in their local area. Community projects from all over Northern Ireland were encouraged to compete for the funding. UTV regional news featured the finalists [...]
Read Northern Ireland celebrates People’s Millions…
The Big Lottery Fund in partnership with ITV, awarded 60 Lottery grants totalling £3.6 million to community projects across the UK marking the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Another fantastic reason to have a Big Lunch on the Jubilee weekend 3 June 2012! Are you are involved in any of the community initiatives who competed for funding? We’d [...]
Read Jubilee People’s Millions results…
We’ve teamed up with Landshare again this year to try and encourage all those with green fingers to sow some seeds for their Big Lunch. It’s a great opportunity for like-minded growers to get together in their area and share some delicious home grown produce. You can use Landshare Groups to find people in your [...]
Read Join Landshare’s top 10 Big Lunchers…
This year The Big Lunch and NCPTA have teamed up to challenge as many PTAs and kids as possible to make the longest line of bunting in the world! The current Guinness World Record is held by NCPTA members, Malbank School and Sixth Form College in Cheshire and is 2,737.72m. This is a great opportunity [...]
Read The Big Bunting Challenge…
At The Big Lunch we believe that food tastes better when it’s prepared with the environment in mind. That’s why we thought we’d tell you about the Cono Sur Green Cooks Search, an online competition to find the UK’s most environmentally-friendly home cook. Cono Sur is a Chilean company that makes award winning wine sustainably. The [...]
Read Green Cook Search now on!…
Picture the scene next week; after the final game has been played, the last drop has been drunk, the last song has been sung and the tables and chairs have been packed away for another year…You’ve had a fantastic Big Lunch…you’ve enjoyed the company of friends and neighbours, many neighbours now friends, but now you [...]
Read Smile for the Big Lunch cameras!…
Big Jubilee Lunch 2012, an Eden Project
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