About The Big Lunch

The Big Lunch is a very simple idea from the Eden Project. The aim is to get as many people as possible across the whole of the UK to have lunch with their neighbours in a simple act of community, friendship and fun.

Last year on Sunday 5th June the best part of two million people took part. in 2012 The Big Lunch falls on the same weekend as The Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations on Sunday 3rd June and as announced by Buckingham Palace The Big Jubilee Lunch will be a part of the main programme of events over the central weekend of the Diamond Jubilee. A record number of people are expected to take part. Why not be one of them!

A Big Lunch can be anything from a few neighbours getting together in the garden or on the street, to a full blown street party with food, music and decoration that quite literally stops the traffic.

Since starting in 2009, thousands of Big Lunches have taken place in all kinds of communities across the UK and the best part of a million people get involved each year.

• Why get involved?

  

  To have fun, to make friends with your neighbours, to share skills and stories…

  More reasons

• Why we started it

  

  The idea of The Big Lunch began at the Eden Project with the simple aim of bringing neighbours together.

  Hear our story

• Previous Big Lunches

  

  Check out what happened at Big Lunches held in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

  Be inspired

• Case studies

  

  Browse The Big Lunch map to see what type of lunches people have held, and get inspiration for your own event.

  Browse our map

• Celebrity Support

  

  TV and radio celebrities and top chefs from all around the UK are getting behind The Big Lunch initiative where they live.

  Read what they say