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Your Eastbourne BID is inviting the residents of Eastbourne to celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with Little Chelsea’s Jubilee Street Party on Thursday 2nd of June.

Marking 70 years of The Queen’s reign in the United Kingdom, and to kick off the bank holiday celebrations on Thursday 2nd June, Grove Road and South Street will be closed to traffic for a street party so that people can enjoy a cup of tea and slice of cake to celebrate this momentous occasion. 

There will be activities and entertainment from 12 noon until 9:45pm. With a ‘Best of British’ fancy dress competition, where residents are invited to come dressed as a British icon. The Mayor of Eastbourne will judge the competition that afternoon, and the best dressed person will win a prize.

From 2pm to 4pm, Defiant Sports will be hosting a traditional English sports day. There will be an egg and spoon race, a bean bag race, a three-legged race and more! There will also be a street circus organised by Sweet Circus, providing street entertainment for the whole family. Printers Playhouse will provide live music, performed at the top of Grove Road by the town hall.

Continuing the activities, the Art House Café will be hosting a Jubilee bear hunt. Ten unique bears will be hidden in Little Chelsea shop windows, pick up a form from the Art House Café get spotting for a prize! To end the celebrations, at 9:45pm, Eastbourne Town Centre will be lighting a beacon to coincide with the national chain of beacons being lit across the UK!