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When David O’Connell had the opportunity this year to join his neighbours for a Big lunch, he was surprised and impressed at how fun the day’s events were… “South London has many Big Lunches and the one in our street in Peckham has become something of an institution, thanks to some enthusiastic and efficient organisation. [...]
Read Competing Cakes in Peckham…
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!…
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 [...]
Read Where’s your favourite ‘Lunch Spot’?…
Rev. Elizabeth Cairns, Vicar of St. Columba’s Church of Ireland in Portadown, Co Armagh, shares her passion for The Big Lunch. ‘We love the idea of ‘breaking bread and barriers’ – and our Big Jubilee Lunch certainly was all about the local church and local community working closely together. “Sunday 3rd June 2012 was a brilliant [...]
Read Big Lunch breaking bread and barriers…
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…
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…
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…
Ever thought about making your journeys a little more exciting whilst managing to save a few pennies? Let us introduce you to Liftshare – the social enterprise that helps people to travel more sustainably by sharing their journeys. The initiative has been running since 1998 and now has over 350,000 active members. Liftshare week is [...]
Read Get involved with Liftshare Week!…
We have collated the 2012 results from our independently verified survey * – and we’re happy! As you will know, a massive 8.5 million people got involved in Big Lunch and Big Jubilee Lunch events in June 2012 – far surpassing our expectations and figures from previous years. We also saw Big Lunches spread [...]
Read The Big Lunch stats and facts…
Growing Connections are the latest Northern Irish organisation to support The Big Lunch and are having an Open door Big Lunch at Quarries farm, near Bangor, Co Down, on Saturday 8 September 1:00 – 4:00pm, so dig out your wellies and go along! Growing Connections (GCNI ) will be supporting the growth of The Big Lunch in [...]
Read Mud Glorious Mud Big Lunch…
Big Jubilee Lunch 2012, an Eden Project
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