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Christmas in Cornwall: video of Eden’s winter festival
If you’re in need of some warmth and light on these long, cold evenings, join us for our winter festival. We’re open late on certain evenings throughout December, for craft activities, music and song, food and drink, plus storytelling, massage and comedy for all the family – all topped off with a magical lantern parade. [...]
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Free neighbourhood planning event for communities
If you’re inspired by the idea of helping shape where you live, then the forthcoming neighbourhood Planning Camp at the Eden Project could for you. The three-day, residential event has been designed to give residents and community leaders the know-how, inspiration and confidence to return home and make a real difference to the future of [...]
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Play a starring role in our lantern parade
We’re offering a handful of lucky people the opportunity to lead our spectacular lantern procession during Eden’s winter festival evenings. Come and help carry one of the giant magical lanterns, made by local artists, through our gardens to the heart of Eden, where visitors, musicians and singers will join together for a grand finale. As [...]
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Tell us how to spend £1m on Cornwall’s Clay Country
Eden’s Big Green Bus is touring Cornwall’s Clay Country on Saturday 22 October, to give locals the opportunity to put forward their ideas on how to spend £1 million from the Big Lottery Fund. St Blazey, Par and Tywardreath have been chosen for a slice of the £200 million investment that the Big Lottery Fund [...]
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How to plan your own neighbourhood
Ever wanted to have a go at designing your own neighbourhood? Ever felt that you and your neighbours know best where the extra bike lanes should go, where you could do with some extra parent-child parking spaces? Or that your community could run the recycling services better than the council does? The chances are that [...]
Paul, Emily and the beanstalk: today’s harvest offering
To celebrate Eden’s Harvest Festival this October, we’re bringing you a selection of recipes, ideas and creations to celebrate this special season. Today, we share with you a harvest offering from the amazing rooftop garden that sprang up this summer at the Southbank Centre. What was a bare patch of concrete early this year [...]
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New video on Eden’s uplifting social and environmental projects
You’d be right in thinking that the Eden Project is a memorable day out in Cornwall. But did you know that Eden is also a charity and social enterprise that’s involved in all sorts of social and environmental projects? We’ve put together a new video to showcase some of these transformational programmes, from inspirational workshops [...]
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Children from Chernobyl enjoy day out at Eden
A group of children from Belarus, within the radioactive region of Chernobyl, the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor incident, visited Eden today as part of their annual month-long stay in Cornwall. The 14 children have come to the UK for a respite break through the Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline charity. Their few weeks not only [...]
Circus parade in St Austell town centre
Breath-taking balancing acts, surreal dance routines and a man spinning in a giant wheel thrilled hundreds of spectators as NoFit State Circus came to St Austell town centre on Saturday (16 July). The spectacular show, attended by about 500 people in White River Place’s Aylmer Square, was the finale of a colourful parade led by [...]
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Greening the grey: how gardening turned my life around
Emily Hegarty, one of the team who’s worked with Eden to create a vibrant rooftop garden on the concrete roof of the Southbank Centre, shares her personal take on the transformation. Walking home past London’s dreary Southbank on a winter’s day it wasn’t hard to see why we had been invited to build a roof garden there with the [...]
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