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Wondering how you’re going to have a successful Big Lunch without a big pot of cash? Fear not, The Big Lunch team have put together 5 handy tips for how to make your Big Lunch fabulous without a big price tag. And there are lots more ideas on our website. And if you have any [...]
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It is estimated that 30 million real Christmas trees are sold each year – filling homes across the world with the memorable scent of Christmas (and plenty of pine to clean up!) But what happens to your tree after Christmas? Here are a couple of tips to cut down on tree wastage, whilst adding a [...]
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Last Sunday saw people from all over the lovely town of Todmorden coming together for an afternoon of fun and food at the Incredible Edible Harvest Festival. It was a celebration of the fantastic work of Incredible Edible – an organisation that aims to provide access to good, locally grown food to all through its [...]
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Last Monday The Big Lunch team went along to EcoLocal’s Environmental Fair in Carshalton, South London. EcoLocal develops and delivers a broad range of environmental sustainability services designed to help people move toward more pro-environmental behaviours. These services cover: – local food, health, transport, energy, waste minimisation, – community engagement, consultation and research, – training [...]
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As summer draws to an end, food growing might not be something that you’d usually think of starting now, but nature is more than happy to push on through to winter and beyond with lots of veg varieties that can be grown in the approaching season. Our friends at Seed Pantry are on hand with some [...]
Govanhill Baths Community Trust in Glasgow recently held a Big Lunch to celebrate the end of Refugee Week and to commemorate 10 years of community activity to reopen the Swimming Baths at the heart of the community. With an estimated 42 different nationalities living within the square mile of Govanhill, Refugee Week proved the perfect [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Our friends at Capital Growth – the initiative that aims to encourage Londoners to grow their own food – have just launched a fantastic new competition for 50 communities in London to win the equipment, bees and training to help them start up with beekeeping. The competition is part of the Capital Bee project that [...]
We’ve just got news in of the first Big Lunch to have taken place in Australia this year. The organiser, Tina Jackson, wrote to tell us about the day: ‘Around 200 people picnicked on home grown food in the village square for Mosman’s Big Lunch, the first of its kind to be held in Australia. [...]
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Big Jubilee Lunch 2012, an Eden Project
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