The Big Lunch - June 6th!

The LARA LUNCH - Sunday 14th July

LARA will be hosting its 4th annual big lunch / picnic on Sunday 14th July 1-4pm.
We are back at the West Hackney Recreation Grounds this year (soon to be transformed! Watch out for further info)
It's always a very friendly affair, a chance to meet your neighbours, share some fantastic food and enjoy the sunshine (we wish!) 

We're hoping to have a few sporting activities, with the usual classics - sack racing, 3 legged, egg and spoon etc.
It's a completely free event, although donations on the day will be most welcome!

Bring a picnic blanket and food to share and come and have some fun.

We will be setting up from 11am so if anyone is willing to come and lend a hand - we've got miles of bunting to put up and chairs and tables to lay out.
Please just let us know or we'll just see you there.

The Big LARA Lunch 2012

Our annual Big LARA Lunch was a happy affair as usual, thanks to all the locals who joined us and brought delicious food - great to see many new faces too.

We had a last minute change of venue as we were too late for the license application in the WHRG (West Hackney Recreation Grounds) - it was all a bit of a last minute post summer panic! Thanks to vicar Niall Weir at St. Paul's for stepping in and offering the Churchyard.

Thanks to music man Jorge for entertaining the kids again (having his lunch at this point!)

 The kids had a field day with the chalk boards (Thanks to Martin) and Royal Mail (unwittingly) provided the gear for a good old fashioned sack race.

On your marks!

and final meltdown.

 We'll be back again next year!

The Big LARA Lunch and other news

LARA will be hosting its 3rd annual big lunch / picnic at St Paul's Church Grounds (Due to licensing issues it's no longer in the West Hackney Rec - now to be held where the Farmer's Market is on Saturdays)
We had a great time the last couple of years and the food has always been fantastic - thanks to everyone who turned up and joined in.
Basically bring a picnic blanket and food to share, come along and get together with your neighbours and have some fun.
We're hoping to have a few sporting activities, with the usual classics - sack racing, 3 legged, egg and spoon etc.
It's a completely free event, although donations on the day will be most welcome!

We will be setting up from 11am so if anyone is willing to come and lend a hand - we've got miles of bunting to put up and chairs and tables to lay out. Please just let us know.

Whoever brought along the table tennis last year - we'd love to see it again this year and if there's anything else anyone can offer sports activity wise, the more the merrier!

They'll be a giant chalkboard for the kids to get creative too.
All ages welcome.

If the weather is a bit grim we have kind permission from the vicar, Niall to use the Church Hall.

If you want to make a weekend of it, one of our residents will be spinning some tracks the night before.....

• Neighbourhood N16

A friendly local club night playing party tunes for music lovers in the basement of White Rabbit Bar (formerly Baby Bathouse).  Paul, Kate and Drew play classic danceable indie, pop, hip hop and disco. Are you ready for the floor?

• When:  Saturday 15th September 
• Where: White Rabbit Bar Basement, 125 Stoke Newington Church Street
• From 9pm 'til 2am
• 2 for 1 drinks before 10
• No Admission charge
• DJs Paul Morgan, Kate Wheeler, Droogle
• Indie, Electro, Retro & Pop
• https://www.facebook.com/events/508197192540455/ 

The LARA Pub quiz will be back for it's 2nd round so please add it to your diary.

LARA quiz night –10^th October - Upstairs at The White Hart - more info to follow

AGM meeting – October 17th, 2012; venue TBC

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

The LARA Big Lunch

On the success of last year's fun day, LARA is organising our second Big Lunch as part of the nationwide annual event. Friends, families and neighbours are invited to come and have fun, eat and be merry!
Entrance is a plate of food to share.
West Hackney Recreation Grounds (the green space behind St. Paul's Church, Entrance on Evering Road at the end of Leswin Road).
N16 7UY
Sunday 5th June
1pm to 4pm

We're looking for any volunteers to help set up on the day.  Meet up at 11am in the Recreation Grounds.
We will be doing door to door leafleting very soon, any help would be very much appreciated!

See all the pics from last year here 
More updates coming soon!

More Pics from Sunday Lunch

Cakes from Heaven to the Great Wall of  Hackney, Big Lunch we salute you!

The Big Lunch.....We did it!

 

From small beginnings.....

To a paint crazy, musical feast!

 

We even had a bar!

 

 and a vintage car!

 

 

A day of lunching fun and just shows you what can happen on a little patch of forgotten green!

Don't forget the meeting this Thursday

Thanks to everyone for all there efforts to make this such a great day.