Lots & lots of lots

At the street party meeting this evening we reviewed the lots for the auction and they are plentiful and varied. I’ll post a full list later next week so that you can start working out what you are going to bid for, but in the meantime, here are a couple of examples:

Babysitting, painting & decorating or plastering, meal for up to 6 cooked in your own home, original painting, original photograph, bottle of champagne, 1 to 1 art tuition.

Thinking caps on and dig deep 🙂

Nearly less than 2 weeks to go!

Well, two weeks on Sunday the Queens Road Big Jubilee Lunch takes place so here is a final reminder of all of the info you need (it will be less than two weeks when they get distributed on Sunday afternoon !)

The latest news from The Big Lunch

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To view this message in your browser, please click here           Not long now!   In just over three weeks’ time we’ll be breaking out the bunting and getting ready for the biggest Big Lunch yet! We’re delighted that The Big Lunch has been widely reported in the media recently – including pieces in the Sun, The Times and The Mail on Sunday. Jenni Falconer also talked about the campaign on last week’s Lottery draw show. Armagh, the orchard county of Ireland had a special visit from Patron of The Big Jubilee Lunch, The Duchess of Cornwall, who joined a group of the cities Saints and Scholars for an apple blossom themed early Big Jubilee Lunch last week. HRH also hosted a reception for Big Jubilee Lunchers in Scotland at The Palace of Holyroodhouse this week.   > Read more       Big Lunch trail at Eden   Visitors to the Eden Project can now follow a treasure-hunt across the site to seek out elements that make up a Big Lunch. Once they’ve found them all, their trail map can be exchanged for a packet of Big Lunch speedy salad seeds!   > Visit Eden     Free Champagne!   Champagne Lanson is proud to be The Official Champagne Partner of The Big Lunch, helping you celebrate this summer. Fancy adding some sparkle to your party?   > Enter the prize draw       Bring a Tin   We’ve teamed up with FareShare and The Trussell Trust to challenge Big Lunchers to help combat food poverty and food waste – encourage your guests to bring a tin to your Big Lunch.   > Find out more     Big Big Lunches!   We’re excited about two very big, Big Lunches taking place in London – one massive street party at historic Piccadilly and an event organised by Start and the Old Royal Naval Collage in Greenwich. Are you lunching it large in your neck of the woods? Or, do you prefer the small, intimate option, share your plans on our social networks and help get the nations in the mood.   > Read more       Exclusive George and Flora recipes   To celebrate the upcoming release of the fantastic new Eden Project children’s book ‘George and Flora’s Big Party’ by Jo Elworthy, we are offering Big Lunchers an exclusive look at some of the fabulous street party recipes featured in the book.   > Get cooking     Big Jubilee Dance   We’ve teamed up with Big Dance and 5-a-day Fitness who have produced The Big Jubilee Dance exclusively for this year’s event.   > Check it out       Calling Welsh Big Lunchers!   Get to know your neighbours and make your street a nicer place to live with Keep Wales Tidy.   > Find out more     Community pubs   If you can’t organise your own Big Lunch this year, why not get together with your community down at your local?   > Real local pubs     Volunteers’ Week   The Big Lunch falls during Volunteers Week. Find out which organisations we’re working with and how you can take part.   > Read more                   Big Lunch videos   Visit our YouTube channel ‘biglunch’ to see our fantastic new ad which you can embed in your own channels or share with others.   > Watch our videos       Get the kids involved!   Sustrans have put together a whole host of Jubilee-themed activity sheets, packed full of great ideas for games and activities for children.   > Take a look       Join Streetbank   Streetbank is the community sharing site with everything you need for your event, from tables to Tupperware, baking skills to badminton racquets.   > Check it out       Deunyddiau Cymraeg   We now have Welsh language packs and leaflets available. Set up your Welsh lunch now.   > Order yours today           Share on Facebook     Tweets, feeds and more     See what we’re all about     Share your photos on Flickr               The Big Lunch is an Eden Project   © The Eden Project, Bodelva, St Austell, Cornwall PL24 2SG   The Eden Project is owned by the Eden Trust Registered charity no. 1093070   If you would prefer not to receive future emails from us, please unsubscribe

So what do you need to do?

So it is 6th May today – only FOUR weeks until the Queens Road Big Jubilee Lunch Street Party, so time to update everyone.

What you need to do:

Ensure you enjoy a safe street party – keep an eye on your houses (lock doors) & your children’s safety!

Bring:

A chair, crockery & cutlery for all of your attendees and this year TABLES for you to sit at – garden, tressle, pasting or dining will do – they’ll be lined up in true Street Party style.

Some food & drink to share with your friends & neighbours – savoury dishes from the post box side of the street OX16 0EB postcodes & sweet from the OX16 0ED side – please label any food with a description if it is not obvious what it is.

Some money to bid with at the Promises & Goods Auction – should be great fun!

Umbrellas, parasols & gazebos if you have them – to keep off the sun of course 😉

Cars:

The street will be closed between 10am & 6pm and so we would ask you to kindly remove your cars from the street, ideally by 9am latest, so that we can set up for the street party.

Competitions:

If you want to enter a cake into the Diamond Jubilee cake competition you need to think about how you will DECORATE the best Diamond Jubilee themed cake as this year’s cake comp will be judged on looks rather than taste. The best one will win a prize & be auctioned off during the Promises & Goods Auction at the Big Lunch.

Start tidying up frontages and finding out the bunting & decorations as we again are going to have a prize for Queens Road’s best dressed house. It doesn’t have to be themed on the Diamond Jubilee but we are having a traditional street party this year so give it some thought !

The final competition is for the kiddies – we are going to ask them to paint / draw / colour a portrait of the Queen to celebrate The Big Jubilee Lunch being linked to the nationwide celebrations – again there will be a prize for the best one !

Going going gone!!

With less than a month to go we are intensifying activities to get everything ready for the street party.

One of the main elements of our Jubilee Street Party will be an auction of Promises & Goods so we are trying to get folks to donate their skills or items.

If you have anything to offer (suggestions below) please contact John Haywood at No.1 email a.j.haywood@hotmail.co.uk
Tel 01295 257587