The soulful singer Paolo Nutini is just one of the many people who have shown their support for Eden’s new volunteering scheme the Barefoot Games.
We caught up with Paolo just before his second sell-out performance at the Eden Sessions to tell him all about it.
The Barefoot Games is a new volunteering scheme for young people [...]

Yesterday saw one million people up and down the country sit down to eat together for The Big Lunch, the initiative started by the Eden Project to sow the seeds of community and friendship.
Across the UK bouncy castles were inflated, sack races cheered and smiley faces painted on children and adults as neighbours came together [...]

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 [...]

Eden hosts “longest picnic table in the world”

The biggest greenhouses in the world played host to what could be the longest picnic table today. A grassy roof between the iconic Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes at the Eden Project in Cornwall was the setting for the 48m long picnic for a 100 people and a dog.
The [...]

Eden has a hunch that our neighbours could be the biggest untapped potential in our lives, so it came up with The Big Lunch, a one-day get-together for neighbours.
On one day last summer, the best part of a million people got together across the country to sit together and eat lunch, play games and generally get to know each [...]

The Log is made from sustainably sourced oak, hand crafted by Touchwood Enterprises into a beautiful, sculptural play structure that almost looks like a Hobbit house! It’s been sand blasted to give it a ‘lizard-like’ skin texture which acts like an anti-slip surface if you were to climb over it. It weighs approximately 2.5 tonnes, [...]

Teams of homeless champions laced up their boots and strapped on their shinpads on Tuesday (December 15) for the first-ever football matches played at Eden.
The world’s biggest greenhouses provided a stunning backdrop for a tournament with a difference, played out between teams of people who have completed the project’s nine-week Great Grass programme.
The programme was [...]