More Jubilee Projects

Here are some of the supporting organisations we partner with which are also running Diamond Jubilee projects this year to celebrate The Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

If your organisation is involved in The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Celebrations this year and you would like to work with The Big Lunch please get in touch by emailing Kate.Groves@thebiglunch.com

• Jubilee Time Capsule
  

  

  The Jubilee Time Capsule, from the Royal Commonwealth Society, is a unique social archive of the 60 year reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The aim is to gather contributions from people all over the world about their lives and experiences over each and every day Her Royal Highness has been on the throne.  These memories are welcomed from all walks of life and can be contributed in the form of stories, videos, photographs, drawings, media and more, to be used as part of the 2012’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations and showcased to Her Majesty, The Queen. People holding Big Lunches with their communities and neighbourhoods, will
  be invited to share memories of their day. The site will remain open for
  contributions until mid-June 2012. The Big Lunch is very excited about this opportunity from our partners the Royal Commonwealth Society.

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• Jubilee Woods

  

  To celebrate The Queen’s historic Diamond Jubilee, The Bulb Nursery in Cornwall is helping people across the UK to come together to plant 6 million trees. The flagship wood is in Leicestershire, but the Jubilee Woods project aims to create hundreds of Jubilee Woods and sixty special Diamond Woods all over the UK. The first tree was planted in October 2011 by Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal as part of a new Diamond Wood being created in the grounds of Burghley House near Stamford, Lincolnshire. So far, over 30 landowners across the UK are already working with the Woodland Trust to create beautiful large woods to mark Queen Elizabeth's 2012 Diamond Jubilee.

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• Museum of London

  

  As part of 2012’s Diamond Jubilee celebrationsThe Museum of London is staging an exhibition to display the capital’s enthusiasm and affection for Queen Elizabeth II. ‘At Home with the Queen’ will feature Londoners photographed in their own homes with their cherished mementoes of Her Majesty’s reign. The museum is encouraging people from all over London to submit their photos, and will then select ten entrants tohave their photograph taken by a professional photographer at home with their memorabilia. These photographs will form the exhibition, which will run from 24^th May to 4^th November 2012.

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• Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge

  

  The Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge is the flagship project of Fields in Trust for 2012, to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee and London Olympic and Paralympic Games. The project, supported by the organisation’s Patron The Duke of Cambridge, aims to permanently protect a total of 2012 recreational spaces by 2012.A wide variety of sites are eligible to become Queen Elizabeth II Fields and to celebrate the events of 2012 by taking part in the nationwide event, ‘Have a Field Day’, in June 2012.

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• START Imagining

  

  
  Start Imagining has launched a competition challenging schoolchildren to get creative with their rubbish – ‘From Tip to Ship’. Schools are being encouraged to make model boats for The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee using only reclaimed materials, or junk, inspired by the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant on Sunday 3 June. The winners will get a trip to London to see their boats, which will be exhibited at the Old Royal Naval College throughout June. Start Imagining, a collaboration between Start, Cool It Schools, Craft Club and Freecycle, launched in January, and aims to highlight issues around landfill and waste in a positive way. Their focus is on inventive ‘upcycling’, and transforming junk like empty cereal packs and broken plastic beads into fabulous art, craft and other stylish things, making something extraordinary out of something ordinary.

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