January 19, 2012
Author: Gina
As the sun shone gallantly over the Thames this week, The Big Lunch team joined forces with Team London and the Mayor’s office, and headed to City Hall to bring Londoners together to find out how they can contribute to what is set to be the biggest year yet for The Big Lunch. We decided [...]
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January 13, 2012
Author: Grainne McCloskey
The Eden Project will be hosting a free evening of astronomy as part of the BBC’s Stargazing Live between 6pm - 9.30pm on Tuesday January 17 2012. Visitors can find out about the stars of our galaxy by using a variety of professional telescopes, taking a virtual visit to distant corners of the universe in a [...]
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December 2, 2011
Author: Trudi Holden
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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November 14, 2011
Author: Grainne McCloskey
This blog is written by The Big Lunch guest writer Lucy Pearce, one of our Big Lunch Champions. I have always hated the idea of living on a housing estate. Too many neighbours, too close for comfort, identikit houses, and not our sort of people. No siree, not for me. And certainly not for my kids. [...]
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September 30, 2011
Author: Grainne McCloskey
Big Lunch organisers and supporters from across Northern Ireland got together on Saturday 24th 2011 sharing ideas and stories, celebrating success in 2011 and looking ahead to encourage more activity in 2012. The special get together was held at Big Lunch ambassador chef Michael Deane’s restaurant in Belfast and we were delighted to be joined [...]
Read Big Lunch gets bigger in NI…
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August 18, 2011
Author: Camilla
To celebrate the Eden Projects’ 10th anniversary, NoFit State Circus - the leading large-scale contemporary circus company in the UK - have produced a fantastic show called Labyrinth, currently being performed at Eden. The show is packed full of breath-taking aerial acrobatics, circus, music, dance and drama and is a great night out for all the family. [...]
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August 3, 2011
Author: Grainne McCloskey
The great thing about The Big Lunch is that it brings to the fore the fantastic community spirit existing in hearts and minds of people all over the UK and beyond. It’s a chance for people to open up and invite everyone into their way of being, to share and rejoice in their sense of community and make [...]
Read Share Your Community Spirit…
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July 4, 2011
Author: Grainne McCloskey
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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July 4, 2011
Author: Grainne McCloskey
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 [...]
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October 22, 2010
Author: Tim
We’re delighted to announce that the next annual Big Lunch will take place on Sunday 5th June 2011. The dust has settled on this years’ event and we’re now gearing up to an even bigger Lunch in 2011. We’ve got lots of exciting things in store to help make planning and organising your event that [...]
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