As you’d expect in a District of Flourishing Communities there are all manner of festivities going on the length and breadth of the District’s 365 square miles to commemorate the occasion and draw communities together.

These range from traditional fetes and street parties to vintage celebrations, scarecrow competitions, beacon lighting and right royal cake bakes.

There is a comprehensive list of the events we’ve been informed of at HeartofLincs.com/Jubilee

This includes all of the NKDC visitor attractions, Sleaford Town Council’s programme, a weekend of activity at the International Bomber Command Centre and participation across nearly every parish.

If your local festivities aren’t listed and you’d like them to be, please do email: partnerships@n-kesteven.gov.uk and we’ll do our best to include them.

Do please send us any photos, either on the day or when the dust has settled, to communications@n-kesteven.gov.uk, on Instagram or Twitter @NorthKestevenDC or tag us on the day. Please use #NKJubilee.

Do you have photos of previous Jubilee celebrations in North Kesteven, or even the coronation? Please send them in using the same details. Any images submitted may be shared on our social media channels.

If you are posting content about the Jubilee, Buckingham Palace says: please use the hashtags #PlatinumJubilee and/or #HM70. It will be sharing posts from individuals and organisations throughout the year. 

You may also wish to tag the official Jubilee channels: Instagram: @theroyalfamily, Twitter: @royalfamily, Facebook: @thebritishmonarchy.

You can add a Platinum Jubilee gif by searching 'Jubilee' in Giphy.

The main national focus for street parties is Sunday. June 5, as part of the Big Jubilee Lunch.

Always a popular way to bring communities together in celebration, invite your neighbours or the wider community to sit down together to take part in the Big Jubilee Lunch.

thebigjubileelunch.com is still accepting orders for free packs to get street parties started or for people to find out where a public event in their area may be taking place. See also the North Kesteven listings for your area.

It’s too late now to arrange a formal street closure, but through mutual consent with your neighbours, you may be able to arrange something where there’s no through traffic such as a cul-de-sac or close, or on designated green space.

There’s useful guidance here on Street Party hosting.

Whatever shape your Jubilee jubilation takes, there is a vast array of resources available online to add to the jollity – not least at platinumjubilee.gov.uk.

There’s a great toolkit complete with downloadable cut-out crowns, colour-in corgis, dot-to-dot guards, poster templates and all manner of printable bunting designs.

There’s also a range of celebrity-chef recipes including a coronation aubergine, and a special Spotify playlist. All at: platinumjubilee.gov.uk/toolkit

There’s loads of stuff to search for and download online. And here are our favourites from colouringheroes.com: a corgi, a Jubilee stamp and a Lego Queen.

In keeping with the Platinum Jubilee Pageant in central London on June 5, communities are encouraged to initiate events and activities to come together anytime between the Thursday and the Sunday for this once-in-a-lifetime moment.

There’s a Pageant Pack full of ideas, a handy checklist to help you think of everything and suggestions on how to ensure a lasting impact at platinumpageant.com.

Building on the tradition and success of previous Jubilees, community groups, organisations and businesses are encouraged to join in by lighting a chain of beacons the length and breadth of the Country and across the Commonwealth.

The beacon lighting will run to a prescribed schedule on Thursday, June 2 (9.45pm for community beacons) and it is suggested to follow this up with the planting of seven trees on the beacon site.

Registrations need to be made before May 31. There’s a guide on how to take part - and even how to build a beacon - at: queensjubileebeacons.com

Beacons locally include the International Bomber Command Centre at Canwick Hill, Timberland, Carlton le Moorland, Scopwick, Skellingthorpe and Thorpe on the Hill.

Given the immense time and effort invested in making local Jubilee activity go with a swing, you might think some people deserve a great big community thank you.

You can nominate anyone who’s worked especially hard and shown sterling community spirit and voluntary endeavour in bringing the events together for an NK Community Champion Award. See NKawards.org.

Think creatively around the categories covering community spirit, young achiever, contributions to sport, arts & culture, health & wellbeing, good neighbour and various other strands of thoughtful enterprise.

The Jubilee is going to be a wonderful celebration but it could also be packed full of waste, so we're encouraging more sustainable festivities.

There is already a plethora of Jubilee-themed plastic and single use items out there, just waiting to tempt you into generating waste while you celebrate. Here are some ideas about how we can mark the occasion while reducing our impact on the planet:

• Consider whether an item is recyclable or reusable before you buy it.
• Go for paper decorations, masks and hats, not plastic. Avoiding foil or metallic elements means the paper and card can be recycled.
• Reuse or make your own bunting from unwanted clothes or fabrics, or even knit some!
• Encourage people to bring their own plates and glasses to your street party instead of buying paper, plastic or polystyrene disposables.
• Repurpose and recycle wherever possible, and ask around before buying new items - a neighbour's shed might be full of festive items!

There are more ideas in the Local Pageant Information Pack. Please share your low-impact ideas and pictures with us at ClimateAction@n-kesteven.gov.uk.

And of course, the commemorations don’t need to stop here – as there’s still tree planting that’s best done in the autumn.

The unique UK-wide initiative to ‘Plant a Tree for the Jubilee’ seeks to create a legacy in honour of The Queen’s leadership which will benefit future generations. Known as the Queen’s Green Canopy, planting projects can be uploaded on to an interactive map at: queensgreencanopy.org.

Given our emphasis as a Council and a District in promoting enhanced biodiversity and tree cover, what better way to create a living, lasting and beneficial legacy than to add to the Queen’s Green Canopy by planting trees, hedges or bushes on a community or a more domestic scale?

If interested in commissioning a commemorative plaque, the Royal British Legion makes them to order as part of their support for veterans, people with disabilities an the unemployed.