Big Lunch - 19th July 2009!

Handy tools for your big lunch! from the organising team at the Eden Project...

The Big Lunch Brochure, your handy manual to serving up a Big Lunch is now available to buy online at www.thebiglunch.com Packed with wild ideas and straight up facts it's the big lowdown on all you need to know for July 19th, and it's all for just £2.00. You can also get batches of our leaflets - an upbeat message on the front and lots of practical info in the back - to help you spread the word about The Big Lunch with your neighbours.

We have The Big Lunch Posters to help you promote The Big Lunch in your street. Some examples can currently be found at www.edenproject.com/documents/big-lunch-posters/poster1.pdf and another at www.edenproject.com/documents/big-lunch-posters/poster6.pdf and there will be a full range including designs for the workplace available on our website soon. They have space for you to add in contact details or information about your plans to get your street lunching.

If you're a teacher, youth leader or work with young people, find out how The Big Lunch can support you in what you already do as well as giving you lots of ideas to get young people involved with the big day in our free handy guide online at www.thebiglunch.com

Tell us what you're up to

Is yours going to be the biggest Big Lunch? Is it going to be unusual in any way or happen in a strange place? Have you got a street band, some budding artists or exotic recipes? Have you got an especially friendly street or are you trying to plan a Lunch on a street where no one speaks to their neighbours?

We're on the lookout for Big Lunch stories to use in the media to really raise awareness of The Big Lunch, so if you've got an interesting story to tell we'd love to hear from you. Contact the Big Lunch team on 020 7636 8152, info@thebiglunch.com or through one of our groups below.

Make Connections

The Big Lunch is now on social networking sites so come and join us, share your plans, ask questions and make new Big Lunch friends.

Find us on Facebook - our group is "The Big Lunch - an eden project, the official site: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=63448562733 , Twitter twitter.com/thebiglunch, post your Big Lunch photos on Flickr www.flickr.com/groups/1091071@N23/ and have a look at some of ours http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebiglunch/

Big Lunch...

The Eden Project team are running their Big Lunch campaign for the first time this year. Peterborough is getting on board, and even better the idea behind the Big Lunch ties in perfectly with the Green Festival 2009 theme - grow it, cook it, eat it!

The idea of the Big Lunch is that neighbours hold street parties and enjoy a bring and share lunch made up from home grown things...

Taking place on 19 July, The Big Lunch aims to bring together as many of the 61 million people in the UK, to simultaneously eat lunch with their neighbours. There are lots of ways for people to get involved, from growing their own food and flowers to forming a band or creating a piece of pavement art.

Paul Twivy, CEO of The Big Lunch, commented: “Let’s all express our talents, get over our embarrassment, shake hands and work with our neighbours and realise that the neighbourhood where we live is the biggest untapped source of happiness we possess. The way to tackle this recession and global warming is through Human Warming.”

Eden Project Chief Executive, Tim Smit, commented: “Imagine a summer's day on which millions of us, throughout the UK, sit down to have lunch together with our neighbours: in the middle of our streets, around our tower blocks and on every patch of common ground. The food, entertainment, music and decorations we will have grown, cooked, or created ourselves. This will be a day to break bread with our neighbours, to put a smile on Britain's face.”

The Green Festival is the perfect opportunity for you to find out about growing your own food, pick up free vegetable seeds, and learn from gardening experts. The two week Festival launches on 23rd May for a day of activities and events around the grow it, cook it, eat it theme. Head down to Bridge Street, Queensgate and the Cathedral Grounds for the launch on Saturday 23rd May. Look out for events over the next fortnight accross the city.

The event is being supported by Riverford Organic Vegetables, Opportunity Peterborough, and the Peterborough Primary Care Trust.