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Northern Ireland celebrates People’s Millions
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...
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Village SOS
Village SOS is another exciting community initiative funded by Big Lottery Fund (BIG), set up in 2010 to kick start a rural revival across the UK. It aims to inspire people in rural villages – many of...
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Strabane skipping Lunch? Never!
Sunday June 5th saw the first Big Lunch event at Melvin Sports Complex hosted by Strabane District Council. Who loved the idea of connecting up people in their local area with people all over the Uk...
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Share your story with the Jubilee Time Capsule
The Jubilee Time Capsule is an innovative online archive that aims to tell the people’s history of the last 60 years. It’s a Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) initiative asking people from across the...
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Everywhere you go, always take your wellies with you …
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...
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Calling all Big Lunchers … get your voice heard!
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is asking volunteers all over the country to share their experiences of local and national authority regulators to help ensure that future...
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Eight and a half million enjoy a Big Lunch!
We’re delighted to now be able to announce that a record-breaking eight and a half million people across the UK sat down for a Big Lunch this year. The independently verified* figure is two and a half...
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Big Thank You for a Big Break
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...
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New Street – New Friends
This year Janet Bevans and her next door neighbour, Sue Thomas, organised their first Big Lunch in St Florence, Wales. They wanted to bring their neighbours and members of the community together to...
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Resourceful Big Lunch week Day 5: Grow a bigger Community
Today’s theme for our Resourceful Big Lunch week is building a bigger community; whether that means getting to know just one new neighbour, or expanding your annual Big Lunch to include the next...
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Sunday’s Big Lunch happenings
On Sunday millions of people lunched with their neighbours – a big big thank you to everyone who hosted or went along to a lunch in their community! We thought it would be nice for all Big Lunchers to...
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