The Big Lunch in the Bag

Despite the grey clouds and the threat of rain, we gathered slowly but surely and turned our patch of green into a cracking Big Lunch once again.

 Here comes Jorge

A musical warm up

 Food time!

 

 The great wall of West Hackney

Left to do their own thing this time!

 

perhaps left for a bit too long....

  

 But they were happy!

 Non stop chatter

 A post lunch bounce

.....and a final quick retreat as the rain came down

Thanks to everyone for turning up and bringing fantastic food to share.

Special thanks to Niall from St. Paul's for supplying tables and chairs, music from the great Jorge and all the extras needed to pull The Big Lunch together.
Fiona for the huge bunting supply and for whizzing emails amongst us all to set the day in motion.
Kerry from Growing Communities for the organic salads.
Café Mostra for the delicious cous cous donation
Andrea for the trampoline
Paul for the gazebo
The table tennis table was a big hit too! (Thanks Jo)
Helen for the crazy wall painting (apologies for the resulting paint covered kids!)
and everyone else who turned up to help on the day and during the big build up.

It was great to see our neighbourhood getting together, making new friends, catching up with local gossip and all the kids having a great time.

We managed to raise just under £100.  This was a combination of individual contributions from the LARA committee, contributions collected at two Big Lunch meetings plus the donations collected on the day (Thanks to Guarda's bucket shaking!). This practically covers the cost of the park hire (£50) and the insurance (£50.35) which is excellent.

Looking forward to next year..June 3rd 2011