Category: Events

The Big Lunch in Bromley – NEW DATE ADDED

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The Big Lunch is the UK’s annual get-together for neighbours and communities, with millions of people coming together for a few hours of food, friendship, and fun. It connects people and encourages friendlier, safer communities where people start to share more – conversations, ideas, skills, resources and friendship.

The Big Lunch is once again coming to Bromley to help people come together to celebrate their community, neighbourhood friendships and street friends.

The Big Lunch is an initiative which comes from Eden Project Communities, an organisation which fosters & values connection, community & neighbourly spirits. The same organisation has brought us the Big Jubilee lunch in 2022, and the Big Coronation lunch in 2023.

This year we have partnered the Big Lunches with the London Festival of Architecture and hope to bring people together from across London to experience why Bromley is a top destination with so much to offer.

These FREE Big lunches are:

NEW DATE ADDED: Saturday 15th June – The Look Out Café, Biggin Hill Airport – 11 am – 1 pm

Saturday 22nd June – Chislehurst Common – Round about green near Prickend Pond – 11 am – 1 pm

Sunday 23rd June – Crystal Palace Park – Cricket Ground – 11 am – 1 pm

Saturday 29th June – Queens Gardens , Bromley South – 11 am – 1 pm

The Big Lunch in Bromley – June 2024

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The Big Lunch is the UK’s annual get-together for neighbours and communities, with millions of people coming together for a few hours of food, friendship, and fun. It connects people and encourages friendlier, safer communities where people start to share more – conversations, ideas, skills, resources and friendship.

The Big Lunch is once again coming to Bromley to help people come together to celebrate their community, neighbourhood friendships and street friends.

The Big Lunch is an initiative which comes from Eden Project Communities, an organisation which fosters & values connection, community & neighbourly spirits. The same organisation has brought us the Big Jubilee lunch in 2022, and the Big Coronation lunch in 2023.

This year we have partnered the Big Lunches with the London Festival of Architecture and hope to bring people together from across London to experience why Bromley is a top destination with so much to offer.

These FREE Big lunches will happen between 11 am – 1pm at the below dates and locations:

Saturday 1st June – Orpington priory & gardens, Orpington – 11 am – 1 pm

Saturday 22nd June – Chislehurst Common – Round about green near Prickend Pond – 11 am – 1 pm

Sunday 23rd June – Crystal Palace Park – Cricket Ground – 11 am – 1 pm

Saturday 29th June – Queens Gardens , Bromley South – 11 am – 1 pm

Participants will be able to bring their homemade lunches and picnic essentials whilst also finding out what is going on in Bromley with Libraries, Clarion Futures, MET police, Caremark, Fostering, Mytime Active and many more organisations attending to promote their services, activities, and groups.

Save Our Shirley Library – Meeting Friday 24 May 2024

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Shirley Library is under threat of closure from Croydon Council.

We need to support this valuable social and community asset and preserve an iconic art deco building.

The library is Shirley’s only social hub available free to all, regardless of age or background.

Users of the library include young people doing Duke of Edinburgh awards, toddlers learning to read, children on holiday doing the Reading Challenge, older people from one of the many retirement homes, young people doing their homework on the computers. It provides:

  • access via the Libraries Consortium to 350 branches, 23 local authorities and access to over 7 million books.
  • support for people preparing for their driving test or citizenship test and for exams in general.
  • computer courses and support with IT problems for many who cannot afford to have a computer at home and offers a space for study and reflection.
  • children’s craft sessions and adult events, such as taster courses on deaf language.
  • advice on many of the social issues that affect people, such as homelessness, domestic violence, unemployment.

There will be a meeting at Shirley Library on Friday 24th May at 1.00pm to discuss our next actions, everyone is welcome.

We need to act now by spreading the word to friends and family.

A group of concerned residents have branded themselves Friends of Shirley Library and have started a movement to save our library.

There is a petition which can be signed in Shirley Library or online https://chng.it/Ww96qMBX6y

If you want to make contact with the Friends of Shirley Library, please email your name, email address, and telephone number to spra.comms@email.com. By so doing, you agree to your details being passed to others similarly interested.

You can also help by emailing our local councillors –

Jason.Cummings@croydon.org.uk

Scott.Roche@croydon.org.uk

Shirley Jumble Trail – Saturday 25 May 2024

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Sign up to be a Seller!

It’s the return of our jumble trail after we saw 80+ sellers at our last trail. It’s a fuss-free way to have a spring clean and help a charity. Organised by locals for everyone.

This year, there will be a £5 entry fee which goes to London charity Caysh, supporting young people age 16-25 in need of homes since 1981.

Where

We’ve made the trail stops closer together this year to make it easier to navigate and increase footfall. If your sale is within this zone, you can participate.

Why?

A jumble trail is a fantastic way to bring a community together whilst helping the environment by finding new homes for old things.
How to get involved:

Step 1. Join the Facebook group for all event info, and to promote your own sale in your front yard/garden or team up with a neighbour!

Step 2. Sign up as a seller using this form, and tell us what you’ll be selling on the day

Step 3. Spread the word! You can share our posts from the Facebook group, and we will provide you with posters for you to print and put up near your sale address.