17-18 June
If you can’t plan something big, why not keep it simple and organise something smaller? Sharing a meal can bring us so much closer together, so invite neighbours for lunch, have friends over for dinner, organise a picnic at your local park, or host a BBQ.
Follow this step by step guide to make your get together great, and make sure you’ve signed up for even more tips, help, recipes and more!
The weekend of The Great Get Together will be 22nd – 24th June, so choose the day and time that would work best for you.
Decide who you want to come and how you’ll invite them. You could drop invites through your friends or neighbours doors, knock and invite them in person, send an email, make a call… However you choose to invite your guests, we can send you all the resources you’ll need to help you promote your event. Sign up for tips, help, resources and more!
Let people find your Get Together by adding it to our interactive map, you can tell them how to get in contact or if anyone is welcome to come along!
If you are stuck for ideas then look no further. Check out these recipes from our celebrity chefs for your Great Get Together Weekend. Or why not make your favourite meal from your childhood and tell all of your guests why? You could pick a food theme and ask everyone to bring something with them? Keep it simple with a picnic in your local park? The point is to bring your neighbours and friends together, so whatever you decide for your Great Get Together meal it is guaranteed to be served with a side of fun!
In Batley and Spen, Jo Cox’s constituency, they’re hosting a massive street party and covering all the tables in red gingham tablecloths. We’d love you to get creative with red gingham decorations too! Here are some ideas for getting creative with gingham.
Don’t forget to tag us so we can see how great your get together was, share your photos with us on social media using #GreatGetTogether and #moreincommon. We have put together loads of help and tips for promoting your get together online here.
Get to know your neighbours, catch up with old friends, enjoy your get together and have fun!
You have plenty of time to organise your get together and we hope you have a blast planning it too! If you do have any questions, check out our FAQs page.
The Great Get Together was an initiative founded in 2017 by the family and friends of Jo Cox in partnership with more than 100 organisations. Since then we've heard from all quarters that the Great Get Together shouldn't be a one-off, so it's now a project of The Jo Cox Foundation (registered charity number 117083).