The Big Lunch aims to strengthen social networks, reduce isolation and create a greater sense of community cohesion. It will do this by encouraging people across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to come together and have lunch with their neighbours on Sunday 5 June 2010 and for 2 further years. People will can meet their neighbours over lunch, with the aim of strengthening community bonds, feeling safer in their neighbourhoods and being motivated to undertake other activities locally.