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The Gateshead Photographic Unit has revealed from its archive a high quality home movie of street parties as people celebrated across the North East region on 8 May 1945. The equipment used to film it was unaffordable to most people, so the images offer a rare glimpse of life on the Home Front. The film also showcases "Thanksgiving Sunday" which occurred a few days after VE Day at a parade in Saltwell Park, Gateshead." This was shown on a recent BBC News item seen here.   … [Read more...] about Vintage Film of VE Day Street Party Revealed

The wonderful Window Wanderland was recently featured on local TV news in its home town where it all started. See the clip here. Since its start in 2015 it has spread around the country and now also abroad. It is a great way to light up the windows in your street with your neighbours during the winter dark evenings. Plan and join in here on heir site. … [Read more...] about Window Wanderland on TV news

Spring is the time to plan a street party with your neighbours. When it's warmer and lighter we can come out of our houses and plan a neighbours' event. The basics of organising are not too hard when shared with a few others - fix a date, talk to residents, and plan the food and games for all ages. You can either have an informal Street Meet without fully closing your road to traffic like below.     Or you can apply to your council for a proper Road Closure. See our Guide our to … [Read more...] about Spring into a Street Party

After a street party you can keep the community spirit going throughout the year by organising a more regular Play Street event. About 16,000 street communities took the opportunity of the Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend in June. This is according to Playing Out who promote this great idea across the country. With all that warm feeling to your neighbours that is a great chance to create a chance for the children to play in their street with others once a week or month. Find out … [Read more...] about Street Parties to Play Streets

Many people will be thinking about making their street party a greener and waste free event. Street parties are normally quite green events. For starters you are all right outside your own door so you have nowhere to travel! Residents will have all sorts of ideas around this and so it is a dialogue which you can only push so far as people want. There are quite a lot of things that you can do around food and waste etc., but we suggest that you also focus efforts on some fun activities … [Read more...] about Greener Waste-Free Event

Sport England have given Playing Out charity some funding to support streets who want to play out but access to road closure kit is stopping it from happening! Click the link below to find out more or email for more info! Is a lack of road closure kit a barrier that stops your street from being a place to play? They have been given some funding to provide FREE kit - road closed signs, high viz, and even a lovely green 'Road open for play' sign - to people who want … [Read more...] about Kit for street play

The Street Party Site has joined other groups including Playing Out and the Big Lunch in asking the Government's Sec. of State for Transport to appeal to councils to follow the best practice on closing roads for street parties. At the same time we have asked for simplification on procedures for residents who want to organise regular play street events. This would be based on the current good practice developed by Playing Out with so far over 90 councils using Temporary Street Play … [Read more...] about Appeal to Govt. to make road closures easier

The big jubilee weekend 4/5th June will be a great chance to hold a street party to say hello to your neighbours after the Covid restrictions and to thank them and your community in any way. A lot has happened, with some good and some sad news, and there will be new neighbours to meet too. The street party formula is the same as ever in our Guide here. Here is the national promotion for Thankyou Day.   … [Read more...] about Big Thankyou and Hello Day 5th June

The Secretary of State for communities and local government, Michael Gove, has written to all Councils encouraging them to support street parties by 'for example relaxing road closure rules to enable them to take place as easily as possible' for residents. The Government published its updated basic guidance on how to organise a street party here. This refers residents and councils to this Street Party Site for detailed advice on everything including road closures and insurance which councils … [Read more...] about Easier Road Closures Encouraged by Government Minister

See our Guide to hold full street parties or smaller informal street meets over the Jubilee weekend, with all the tips and ideas that you need to meet up with your neighbours. Street parties will held for the the Queen's Platinum Jubilee over the extended weekend of 2nd to 5th June 2022, as tradition calls. Or if you miss the date you can hold one later in the year. The Government plans a special long weekend by moving the May Bank Holiday to Thursday 2nd June and an additional Bank … [Read more...] about Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2-5 June