This Sunday, Brits are breaking out the bunting and barbecues for The Big Lunch. In all four corners of the UK, people are organising events ranging from a full-blown street party to a simple bring-your-own picnic with a couple of neighbours.

There’s still time to take part where you live – search for a local Big Lunch using your postcode, or grab a few neighbours and have a bite to eat in your garden / street / park. You can register and get loads of ideas here http://www.thebiglunch.com

Here’s some inspiration from around the country:

• The Cowgate estate in  Newcastle is gearing up for its second Big  Lunch, with sack races, a bouncy castle and fruit and veg growing  demonstrations.
• A community in King’s Heath,  Birmingham, is pulling together in the wake  of several arson attacks to offer a Big Lunch with free ice cream for kids,  games and music.
• In Truro,  Cornwall, neighbours are laying on a  traditional street party with trestle tables and barrels of beer, as well as a  charity bring-and-buy sale.
• Residents from the scattered rural community  of Traquair and Glen in Scotland’s Peeblesshire will be converging  for a Big Lunch for the second  year.
• In Tufnell Park, north  London, residents are bringing their  national dish and rigging up flags, to celebrate the 30 or so different  nationalities living in the street.
  

“The Big Lunch has the potential to build stronger, friendlier communities on a massive scale,” says Eden’s Peter Stewart, which is behind the campaign.

He organised an event in his own neighbourhood last year and says: “The morning after a Big Lunch has a feeling like no other. You walk down the street where, yesterday, people were eating, chatting, playing instruments, skateboarding and cooking on barbecues. The whole place feels different. I feel different.”