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Capital Growth encourages Londoners to get their hands dirty for The Big Dig!
The new growing season is almost upon us, and our friends at Capital Growth are encouraging people to get stuck in and help London’s communities prepare their growing spaces, as part of The Big Dig....
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Winners announced for Wallace & Gromit and Champagne Lanson competitions!!
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...
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On your marks, get set and GO for the Olympics!
Word has reached us that some of our veteran Big Lunchers are planning their next events, this time to celebrate the London 2012 Games (such as the Big World’s End Lunch in Chelsea). It is only days to...
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Oxfam’s GROW at Eden Project
At The Eden Project, from where The Big Lunch is seeded, the experience of walking around the biomes aims to promote messages about being more mindful and understanding our relationship and current...
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Marrow Chutney recipe – make now for Big Lunch 2013!
The harvest from my little garden plot this year was decidedly mixed. Peas were a disappointment, as runner beans gave me one harvest before the first frost killed them. My courgettes however went...
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Chipping Sodbury serves up another great Big Lunch
For their second Big Lunch, Alexandra Womack, Chairman of The Big Lunch Organising Committee, decided to get everyone together again to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of The Queen’s Coronation: “Tables...
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Add a ‘Fair Trade’ flavour to your Big Lunch
It’s World Fair Trade Day this Saturday (10 May) and the theme this year is ‘Fair Trade People’ – a chance to celebrate the remarkable people behind this incredible movement and also to recognise...
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Frittata with summer veg and goat’s cheese
A traditional frittata is a lovely way to celebrate the arrival of early summer veg and great for sharing with your neighbours. This recipe from River Cottage chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is the...
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An ‘egg-cellent’ Big Lunch!
The egg and spoon race; one of the most simple but exciting games you can play at a street party. This year, one of the residents of Cranston Drive in Cheshire suggested this as an activity for their...
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Five Ways to Wellbeing with a Big Lunch
Natalie is a social worker who works for Stockport and District Mind, a charity that supports people experiencing mental health distress. Here she explains how The Big Lunch helps people with mental...
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Going Local with Food Assembly!
Last week The Big Lunch team were invited along to The The Food Assembly’s Pop-up Party on East London’s Roman Road, where we saw how community spirit can be created by connecting local people to local...
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The power of food
I think most of us can agree that food has power. Power over our ability to function as humans for a start, but power over our will, over our moods and physiology, and sometimes even over our sense of...
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Growing communities with The Power of Food Festival
Marie-Amélie is the founder of Edinburgh’s The Power of Food Festival, which encourages greater societal wellbeing, environmental sustainability, and social justice through the promotion of inclusive...
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Spreading happiness through Happy cafés
Stan Rosenthal is the National Coordinator of the Happy Café Network, created by members of the Action for Happiness movement. Stan with Happy Café materials at the Alternative Health Cafe, Haywards...
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A chat with Kay Johnson and her journey to Feast for Peace
Earlier this summer, we were blown away by the Feast for Peace in Preston. Organised by Big Lunch Extras participant, Kay Johnson, the event was created in defiance of intolerance and hatred, to...
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The magic of bread: changing the world one loaf at a time
Andy Haddon is a Director of social enterprise at Earth Doctors, which develops low carbon projects at community scale in the North East of England. Here he talks about the power of bread, and how it...
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Tearable and shareable foccacia from River Cottage
This soft, tasty bread, with its light, oily, salty crust, is eminently tearable and shareable. Put a freshly baked focaccia on the table, plus maybe some dukka and a few sliced ripe tomatoes – and the...
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Building a foodie community
Floriane was frustrated by the lack of fresh, local food in her area and decided to do something about it by starting her own Food Assembly. Her journey running the Putney Food Assembly has not only...
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Keep Cornwall Fed
Stuart and Mike are chefs at the Eden Project and this year decided to use their love of food and knowledge of the catering industry to tackle a major problem facing Cornwall and the UK, launching...
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