Ashfield residents are invited to take their picnics and blankets to Kingsway Park, Kirkby, on Sunday, 5^th June to celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

The Big Jubilee Lunch is the first of Ashfield District Council’s summer events programme. The event will run from 11am-3pm with music, fairground games, giant garden games, inflatables, an ice cream van, and a free face-painter available to entertain residents, as well as donuts from Project D.

Coun Dale Grounds, ward councillor for Kingsway and vice-chairman of the council, said: “We are so excited to kick off our Summer of Fun with the Big Jubilee Picnic on Kingsway Park. We hope to see lots of families out enjoying their picnics to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee.”

Council leader Coun Jason Zadrozny added: “The council is committed to providing quality free events for the whole family and the award-winning Kingsway Park is the ideal venue for a big community event. The Jubilee is the perfect to come together and enjoy events once again.”