England Lacrosse is excited to be celebrating the UK’s first ever national Thank You Day on Sunday 4 July 2021.
The idea of Thank You Day came from a grassroots campaign to hold the country’s biggest ever thank you party in local communities as a way of thanking each other and of building on the community spirit that so many felt during lockdown.
From the idea being launched just a few months ago, the campaign has won huge support from hundreds of organisations ranging from the NHS to the Scouts and from high profile individuals including Gary Lineker, Michael Sheen, Dame Judi Dench, Raheem Sterling and many more.
The day is expected to be the biggest mass participation event since the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and we’re urging the lacrosse community to get involved!
Members of the public are being encouraged to mark the day in numerous different ways from picnics to BBQs, outdoor parties to drinks , while of course sticking to Covid guidelines.
Organisations are also putting on events through-out the day including:
9:00: Join in an hour's exercise across our country’s parks and green spaces.
11:00: Power Hour - Keep Britain Tidy, the RSPB and Rotary are organising an hour’s tidy up of parks and green spaces
13:00: The Big Lunch are organising small street parties and picnics to get neighbours together.
17:00: Cheers for volunteers, led by Ross Kemp and the Royal Voluntary Service is encouraging people to raise a glass or a cuppa with their neighbours, the initiative is backed by thousands of pubs across the country.
19:00: The country’s biggest ever BBQ with neighbours, led by Levi Roots, the Scouts and the National Citizens Service.
In addition, at 3pm – led by Together with Music – individuals, choirs, bands and music groups, are invited to get together and sing or play Christine McVie’s (Fleetwood Mac) classic “Don’t Stop”.
Hundreds of community choirs and schools plan to sing together outside care homes and hospitals to thank residents, patients and staff for everything they have given over the past year.
For more information about the day, head over to the Thank You Day website HERE.