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To gear everyone up for The Big Lunch this year, our partners Kingsmill are asking you where you love to lunch! It’s all part of a new campaign to find the UK’s favourite Lunch Spots. Kingsmill are sponsoring The Big Lunch for the second year in a row and are working in partnership with national [...]
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Congratulations to Bonnie Evans Hills, winner of the Big Lottery Fund ‘Communities in Focus’ photo competition. Bonnie’s photo won the ‘Inspiring Communities’ category and was an instant hit with the judges who chose the picture from a shortlist of 300 entries. Bonnie’s submission shows residents of Oadby, Leicestershire sharing a Big Jubilee Lunch together in [...]
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The fifth annual Big Lunch will take place on Sunday 2nd June and to celebrate one Northern Ireland Big Lunch will win £1000 to spend on improving life in their neighbourhood or wider community. The Big Lunch is a one-day get together for neighbours, an idea from the Eden Project made possible by the Big [...]
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In June The Big Lunch held a competition on Heart FM with lots of top prizes up for grabs. Here one of the winners, college student Abbey from West Sussex, shares how she got on when she claimed her prize for a family break to the Eden Project – including two nights at The Carlyon [...]
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News is spreading fast from the Met Office that rain is forecast for some parts of the UK on Sunday … but here at The Big Lunch we don’t let anything rain on our parade! Even if the heavens open and rain does pour, keep calm and carry on – there’s no need for your Big [...]
Read Everywhere you go, always take your wellies with you ……
One lucky winner won’t have to worry about keeping the drinks cold at their Big Lunch as they have won themselves a stunning SMEG Union Jack 50’s Retro Style Refrigerator. Wallace & Gromit are proudly supporting this year’s Big Lunch, and teamed up with SMEG to launch a competition to celebrate! Big Lunchers were challenged [...]
Read Winners announced for Wallace & Gromit and Champagne Lanson competitions!!…
Celebrity presenter and mum of four, Jo Whiley, was on hand to launch the Kingsmill Fun Lunch Tour earlier this week. The regional tour, which is designed to bring fun to your lunchtime ahead of The Big Lunch on the 3rd June, will be travelling the length and breadth of the nation over the [...]
Read Kingsmill announces the Fun Lunch Tour with celebrity ambassador Jo Whiley…
Remember we told you about the Village SOS competition? Well there’s great news—the deadline has been extended! They’ve extended it to 20 October to give groups more time to work on their enterprising ideas. The Village SOS competition is giving around 250 villages across the UK a share of £5.3 million to kick [...]
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The Big Lunch attended a Fresh Ideas Network seminar on “Thriving Communities: Building Communities & Sustainable Food Projects”. The Fresh Ideas Network supports community food projects which aim to make healthy/local food more easily available, accessible and affordable to local communities, particularly in areas of disadvantage. We were so impressed with some of the projects [...]
We’re excited to announce that BBC2’s longest running cookery programme has taken inspiration from The Big Lunch this year! The theme for the series is cooking food to share, allowing chefs from all over the country to create awe inspiring food that can be shared at the ultimate street party. The new series has just [...]
Read BBC2′s The Great British Menu inspired by The Big Lunch…
Big Jubilee Lunch 2012, an Eden Project
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