The Big Lunch 2010
Created by social secretaryTo all Kingsway Village Families:
A date for your diaries… Sunday 18th July 2010, 12pm
Bring a picnic (and a teddy!) to the big park to have fun with your family, friends, neighbours and fellow villagers.
Watch this space for more information about events, organised by the Residents Association Social Committee, that will be happening on the day.
If anyone is able to help (time, ideas, financial donations, prizes, etc), please post a comment on this blog.
The Residents Association looks forward to enjoying the day with you 
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May 19th, 2010 at 10:55 am
Hi All,
Things are progressing well with the organisation of the ‘Big Lunch’.
We are still looking for volunteers to help on the day… We need people to help with the following:
We don’t expect people to help for the whole day, just an hour or so would be great… Whatever you can do – remember it is on Sunday 18th July 2010 from 12pm-4pm (approx’).
Please leave a post on here if you are able to help in anyway with our village event.
Thanks in advance from the Social Committee of the Residents Association.
May 24th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Hi,
I can probably spare a few hours that day to help out (not sure how though)!
Also I do balloon arches columns etc when I have my kids parties, and have
loads of spare balloons left from last party I did, so could probably make 2 6ft balloon columns to decorate the area if thats any use to you
May 24th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Hi hat.bratpack
Thank you for your comment…your help would be greatly appreciated-maybe you could run a stall for us?
Are you happy for Clive (the webmaster) to give me your email address so that I can contact you?
Look forward to hearing from you soon
Social Secretary
May 25th, 2010 at 8:42 am
Hi,
I’m happy to help out setting up/clearing away. Let me know if I can help with any organisational stuff beforehand too.
Thanks
May 25th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Yes Clive’s welcome to pass my email address on to you.
I look forward to hearing from you.
May 25th, 2010 at 10:15 am
hat.bratpack – Thank you, I will get your details from Clive.
Amanda – I think I know how to get hold of you already! If I’m mistaken, can I get your details from Clive too?
Thanks for the offer.
Organisation for the event is coming along quite nicely. The committee met last night to discuss things again. For those who have offered to help, we will be sending out invitations to our next committee meeting . This will give you a chance to meet the committee and choose your ‘job’ for the event.
Watch out for it in your email inbox in the next few weeks.
Thanks everyone.
May 31st, 2010 at 9:15 am
To all Kingsway Villagers,
We are running a ‘chocolate tombola’ at the big lunch event on Sunday 18th July.
We are looking for people to donate chocolate bars (standard sized Mars, Twix, Aero, Double Decker etc etc) for this stall.
Please deliver any donations to Barry Kirby (70, Thatcham Avenue) before Friday 16th July. Alternatively, leave a post on here and a member of the committee will arrange to collect them from you.
If every house in Kingsway donated 1 chocolate bar, there would be 1500 chocolate bars to win… Mmmmmmmm!!
Please spread the word to your neighbours.
Thanks for your support.
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Hi Folks,
Colouring Competition
The Kingsway Residents Association are also running a Teddy Bear’s Picnic Colouring Competition for local children.
Winners will be announced at the Kingsway Big Lunch on Sunday 18th July 12pm – 4pm at the big park by the school and…
a winner from each year group will be selected!
The competition picture is available HERE.
To enter, simply print off the picture for your child to colour in and follow the instructions on the page.
(If you don’t have a printer, the picture will also be available at Kingsway School).
Good luck all.
June 8th, 2010 at 10:50 am
Hi Folks,
Just a quick update of confirmed items for the event (so far):
Bring Your Own Picnic
Chocolate Tombola
Colouring Competition
Cup Cakes
Face Painting
Fire Engine
Guess the numbers of gummy bears in the jar
Hook A Duck
Ice-Cream Van
Play Rangers
Splat The Rat
St Johns
Regards,
Clive
June 29th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
I notice on the colouring competition that you have to enter a school age.
Is this only restricted to children who attend school or can younger children enter?
July 1st, 2010 at 11:13 pm
BIG LUNCH LATEST
* The committee are getting excited now as our first Kingsway main event is approaching. There is just over 2 weeks to go! Remember… 12pm, Sunday 18th July at the big park.
* Colouring competition PRIZE is a £5 WHSmith gift card! Remember there is a prize for each year group. Kingsway School children should have received a competition picture today from their teacher. Non Kingsway school children may download a copy from the link above.
* There will be a BOUNCY DOME and TEA CUPS ride for the kids to let off some steam!
* RAFFLE PRIZES include many kind donations from local businesses. You could win a HEALTH SPA VISIT for 2, a back neck and sholder MASSAGE, an ORCHID, WINE, MAKE-UP, MEAL for 4… and this is just some of the prizes we have on offer. TICKETS can be bought on the day from the Residents Association Stand on the day.
* Villagers are welcome to bring a GAZEBO should they require their own sun shelter on the day. These can be pitched around the edge of the park… please ask a member of the Residents Association committee to show you where on the day.
* We are still looking for donations of chocolate bars for our ‘chocolate tombola’. Our village event needs your support. Just a few standard sized chocolate bars added to your weekly shop would be greatly appreciated… they are usually on offer in the supermarkets! Donations to be delivered to the committee chair at 70, Thatcham Avenue, or leave a note on this website for one of the committee to make contact to collect it from you.
Thank you for your support… Keep spreading the word… And pray for no rain!
Many thanks
Social Sectretary
Hi @thatcham
Thanks for your interest in the colouring competition. We have decided to open up an extra age group for pre-school children. When your child enters, please fill in the ’school year’ section by writing ‘age x’. Good Luck to your child(ren).
July 8th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Good Evening Villagers
Another Big Lunch update:
*TONY’S TOONS will be attending the Big Lunch to demonstrate his skills at caricatures. Tony has kindly donated a RAFFLE PRIZE of a colour head and shoulders CARICATURE.
*Please remember your CHOCOLATE bar DONATIONS for the Tombola.
*We hope your children are enjoying the COLOURING COMPETITION and we look forward to seeing their creativity next week. Entries must be handed in by THURS 16TH JULY.
*Some cold soft DRINKS will be for sale on the day, but there will not be any food to purchase… remember to bring your PICNIC with you.
*The 10-day weather forecast states that Sunday 18th July will be sunny and around 18 degrees C. Fingers crossed they’re right
Not long now!
Regards,
Social Secretary
July 8th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
Hello…
I emailed kingswayra@googlemail.com with regards to the Big Lunch. Can someone confirm they have recieved an email offering activities for young people?
Cheers
July 10th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Hiya Daisily
I have just got it, my apologies for the delay.
It sounds fab, I will pass it on to Sarah to organise properly as she is heading up the big lunch stuff.
Thank you for getting in touch.
Cheers
Baz
July 13th, 2010 at 6:38 am
I believe the NTC will be attending the event as well, although I can’t confirm this.
July 14th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Good evening all!
Just a reminder that the deadline for the colouring competition is tomorrow. Please ensure that entries are submitted to the teachers at Kingsway School or dropped through Barry Kirby’s letterbox at 70, Thatcham Avenue. Good luck to all the children
Youth Glouestershire will also be attending to provide fun activities/entertainment for the older children/teenagers (not sure what they like to be called LOL)!
Emma – Thanks for your comment. I had made contact with the NTC but unfortunately, they did not get back to me
If you have links with them, please could you ask them to get in contact with me again as I am unaware of them attending. Thanks
July 15th, 2010 at 6:42 am
My partner is a leader at the NTC, if you can email me a contact number and I will get him to give you a call this evening.
Is there someone on here you can get my email address from? If so thats fine and I will pass your details to my ‘better’ half and have him contact you!
July 15th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Hi Emma
I did ask the webmaster to give me your email address, though while waiting, the lady from the NTC responded to my email. Thanks for your help. See you Sunday
July 18th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Well done to everyone on the KRA committee for a organising an impressive Big Lunch. I thought the stalls and displays added a special touch to what was a great community event! Thank you and here’s to the next time!
Fred
July 19th, 2010 at 6:27 am
We attended the Big Lunch on Sunday with some neighbours and had a great time! We really enjoyed ourselves and we even won a few prizes!
I think it was a wonderful day and all of the volunteers were brilliant.
It would be great to see more things like this in the future.
Big well done and thank you to everyone!
July 19th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Hi all,
I understand by reading the comments that THE BIG LUNCH was a great sucess so I would like to pass on my congratulations to all who helped and organised this event for Kingsway, it`s a shame we were unable to attended
Are there any details of who won prizes/competitions?
Well I do hope we can organise something like this again.
Kevgee
July 19th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Yesterday all the months of planning and hard work by the social committee of the Residents Association paid off… Everything went to plan!
We had a great day at the Kingsway Big Lunch. The stalls/attractions were fun, everyone enjoyed having their picnics, we got to meet new people and it didn’t rain!
A big THANK YOU goes to many: The Villagers and their friends/families for coming and supporting our first big event, the people who donated chocolate bars for the tombola, the businesses who donated raffle prizes, the children for their fantastic colouring and the team who made it all happen.
Thank you to those of you who have already made a comment on here, we’re glad that you enjoyed the day too. Please let us know if there are any improvements we could make or if you have any new ideas/contacts to make the events better for all.
Please continue to spread the word about this website as it seems so many of you at the big lunch use this site as an information point. We will be emailing those of you who signed up to our information list, if you would like to be on the list, please let us know that you are happy for the webmaster to give us your email address for that purpose.
So THANK YOU KINGSWAY for helping us to make our first event a success… Onwards and upwards as they say
PS: Photos to follow soon… Some are on the Kingsway Residents Facebook page already, why not have a look?
July 19th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
I’m having fun here today… I still haven’t finished!
The raffle prizes were drawn at the Big Lunch. Most people were there to collect their prize and those who weren’t, I rang on Sunday evening to arrange to drop the prizes off today.
Similarly, the competition winners were announced too. The children who won the colouring competition will receive their prize via the school if they were not there on Sunday.
Congratulations to all who won and thanks to all who entered / bought tickets.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:27 pm
My hat goes off to all the members of the Residents Association Social Committee for all their hard work and I’d also like to thank all those who came along for making it such a huge success… It was a fantastic day.
I’ve added the Big Lunch 2010 Picture Gallery.
Thanks to all those who contributed pictures. If you have additional pic’s you’d like me to add to the gallery please send them by email (available on our Contact Us page).
I’m looking forward to: The Big Lunch 2011
Clive