The Great London Food Dash | 4th Anniversary Event

On Friday 14th November, The Great Friendship Project turns Four!

Yep that's right - four years ago, on a chilly Sunday afternoon in Hampstead Heath, twelve strangers showed up for our very first social walk.

Since then, we’ve hosted over 600 activities across London, from games nights and picnics to silent discos to help build friendships in a city, that doesn’t always make it easy to connect.

And to celebrate our 4th anniversary, and to coincide with World Kindness Day the day before, we’re marking the occasion with something a little different: our very first Great London Food Dash.

Inspired by the TV show "Supermarket Sweep", it’s a city-wide, fast-paced challenge where teams race across London to collect urgently needed items for local food banks.

Each team will be tasked with tracking down specific items requested by food banks, from toiletries and household essentials to tinned foods and dry goods - with every item carrying a points value based on its cost, weight and urgency.

To help you along the way, each team will have a shared fund, boosted by vouchers kindly donated by Sainsbury’s, which you'll be able by visiting pubs (aka Donation Checkpoints) and ordering a couple of drinks (inc. soft drinks) between your team to unlock them.

Each checkpoint will only have a limited number, so you'll be competing against other teams to get them and once they’re gone, they’re gone!

Over the evening, there’ll also be spontaneous speed challenges throughout the evening, offering bonus vouchers for teams quick (and creative) enough to complete them first.

And then when time’s up, we’ll all regroup at a pub to tally the scores, hand out prizes and raise a glass to four years of friendship and community.

It should be a really fun night and a lovely way to celebrate this milestone and so hopefully you can join us for this!

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ATTENDANCE FEE

Whilst the event is free to attend, you are asked to bring a £5 donation to contribute to your team's present fund and so please do come with your cash donation on the day.

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WHERE/WHEN

Meet Point - Gilt of Cain, Fen Court Garden, Hogarth Ct, EC3M 5DL (https://maps.app.goo.gl/JAphAzeWvxusNT4v5)

Closest Tube station: Fenchurch Street (5 min walk), Aldgate (10 min walk), Monument (10 min walk)

Start Time - 6:45pm

Finish time: 11:00pm

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JOIN THE COMMUNITY

Set up in November 2021, our community project was set up to help 20s and 30s in London meet, connect and hopefully build life-long friendships.

To help make this happen, we also host all kinds of events from free social walks, games evenings, day trips, social events, activity nights to picnics.

To learn more about our community or to follow us on social media, please follow one of the links below.

Website - https://friendship-project.co.uk

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/great.friendship