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British Food Fortnight

Running from 22nd September to 7th October and now in its sixth year, British Food Fortnight is the biggest national celebration of the diverse and delicious range of food that Britain produces.

The event’s initiative inviting cooks and chefs to work with schools to teach children how to cook is being expanded three-fold. This year, organisations representing over 9,000 chefs have volunteered to take part signifying the stirrings of a major mass movement. This means that British Food Fortnight has already over-taken France’s long-running Semaine du Gout which sends chefs into French schools every October to teach children about the delights of their national cuisine. Retailers, farmers and producers are also signing up to participate.

The Summer Starts at Brighton Racecourse

 

 

Brighton Racecourse is starting the summer – and its racing season – in style this Sunday, 29 April.

Besides seven exciting races, there is a fantastic prize on offer for the best summer outfit - £1,000 to spend at designer men’s and women’s clothing and accessories boutique Narcist.

From summer dresses and straw boaters to swimming trunks and crickets whites – men, women and children are all encouraged to have a go at capturing summer style.

Accompanied under 16s come free and there is a range of entertainment for them, from quad bikes and a penalty shootout to inflatables and a pole joust.

Get on your bike and pedal for the NSPCC

 

 

The NSPCC’s Big Bike Ride will be taking place over the weekend of 29 June – 1 July 2007. The charity is looking for volunteers to organise and take part in bike rides in their local communities. This year the aim is to raise £300,000 to help the NSPCC make a difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

The Great Milk Debate

The Great Milk Debate will take place between 23rd April and 4th May 2007. This initiative by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) and the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) will take the form of a series of debates across the country.

Celebrate the Taste

Come and celebrate the very best tastes of the south east this May Day Bank Holiday Sunday and Monday at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum in Singleton, near Chichester. England’s leading museum of historic buildings and traditional rural life will be hosting its ever-popular Food Fair in and among the historic buildings on its beautiful 50 acre downland site.

The Unveiling of ‘The Upside Down Tree’

 

 

Tom Hart Dyke's garden at Lullingstone Castle opened yesterday with an unusual ‘happening’. – The unveiling of ‘The Upside Down Tree’ on April Fools Day. The tree, known as ‘The Baobab’ was made by Sevenoaks artist Will Jordan from 51 kilometres of hand twisted steel wire.

The UK’s first ever ‘World Garden of Plants’ containing plants from around the globe, planted in their respective countries of origin, is the vision of modern day plant hunter Tom Hart Dyke.

Tom’s World Garden pays homage to the amazing achievements of Victorian and Edwardian plant hunters who risked life and limb in pursuit of the plants and flowers we now cherish and grow in our gardens in the UK.