GROUPS across the area are hosting community picnics, tea parties and lunches to mark the first Great Get Together.

Schools, children's centres and a supported housing unit are among those hosting Great Get Together events in south Cumbria tomorrow and throughout the weekend.

Neighbourhood celebrations to bring communities closer together are being staged across the country to honour the late Jo Cox.

The mother-of-two and MP for Batley and Spen was murdered last year outside her constituency office. The Jo Cox Foundation says her killing was designed to divide people and so the response on the anniversary of her death is to bring communities closer together to celebrate what people have in common.

Greengate Junior School, in Barrow, will be holding a Great Get Together special assembly tomorrow morning which the community is invited to and coffee will be served.

Abbeyfield supported housing for older people in Ulverston will be holding a strawberry tea for residents, their families and invited guests from the community tomorrow. Church Walk Primary School choir and band will be performing a variety of songs at the cross generation event.

Action for Children Furness Surestart Centres are hosting Jacob's Join lunches tomorrow, where people bring plates of food to share with others in the community.

Newbarns Children's Centre will host its event from 11am to 1pm, Bram Longstaffe Children's Centre will have its event from 12pm to 1pm and the Ormsgill and Greengate children's centre events are from 12pm to 2pm.

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