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People who want bring their community together are being invited to a workshop that explains how they can get involved in the nationwide Big Lunch event in June. The Big Lunch is a lottery funded project that inspires thousands of people across the UK to get together with friends and neighbours for lunch or a picnic. The national event takes place on Sunday, June 12 (2016), but anyone can organise an event on or near that date. Big Lunch and Big Picnic events have been successfully held in Pembrey Country Park and Carmarthen in recent years, but now community engagement organisation Spice, working with Carmarthenshire County Council’s community engagement teams, are hoping more communities will hold events across the county. A workshop will be held at St John's Church Hall, Priory St, Carmarthen, on Tuesday, May 3, from 9.30am to 12pm, which will be repeated at Felinfoel Resource Centre, Llanelli, at 1pm to 3.30pm on the same day. People will be able to find out more about the ev...

Carmarthenshire residents are being encouraged to invite their neighbours for lunch as part of a national event aimed at building better communities. The Big Lunch, organised by the Eden Project, will take place on Sunday, June 5, and communities all over the county are being encouraged to join in. The event aims to bring neighbours together, and to encourage better relations, friendship and trust between people of all ages. Events could be as simple as a garden picnic, to a Sunday roast, to a huge street party. Vivienne Kincaid, joint commissioning officer for community services, said: “This will be a fantastic event which could really bring some of Carmarthenshire’s communities together. “We would love to see groups of people, friends, neighbours and families taking part. “It would be especially good if people remembered any older people living in their communities – people that would have grown up with street parties and festivities. It would really give them something to smile abou...