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Planet Wimborne, Wimborne War on Waste, Wimborne Town Council and Wimborne BID want to thank everyone who sent in ideas for what should go on the Wimborne Cup. There were over 50 entries received from people who love the town. The reusable cup will be launched at this year’s Folk Festival to reduce plastic waste and litter.
It’s now over to you, the public, to help choose the final design out of three choices.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 is the 55th anniversary of Earth Day. We invite everyone to support Earth Day’s 2025 theme: OUR POWER, OUR PLANET™.
Act now — make smart energy choices for your family and demand rapid renewable energy deployment from your governments, industries, and businesses.
There are many ways you can get involved and make a difference for our planet on Earth Day and every day. The Earth Day website provides resources such as Quizzes, Fact Sheets, Articles and More to help you celebrate Earth Day this year in your community, at home, at work and at school.
A Wimborne War on Waste Spring Greens Event
There are lots of ways to decorate a party without balloons; join Wimborne War and Waste and friends to learn how to make reusable pom poms, garlands, paper chains, bunting, and celebrate in style without destroying the earth!
Donations to help us cover costs would be appreciated.
email wimborneonwaste@gmail.com to book a place.
Verwoodians on Waste's second clothes swap is on 26 April 2025.
Adults and children's clothes can be swapped. Shoes taken but they must be as new.
Bring your items to St Michael's Parish Rooms between 10am and 11.45am. Return from 1pm - 2pm to take home what you want. If you haven't donated, no problem. Anyone can come along from 2pm to 2.30pm.
Venue: St Michael's Parish Rooms, Manor Road, Verwood. BH31 6DZ.
To celebrate Earth Day 2025, come and join us on the Minster Green on 26th April. Meet Wilding Wimborne and other Community Groups.
There are also other events:
1st - 30th April Seedy April at the Fair Ground Shop
22nd April: Earth Day 2025: Our Power, Our Planet
23rd April: Party dECOrations Craft Workshop
With Wimborne War on Waste.
Do you have crutches, surgical jackets or other medical kit lurking in your cupboards. The NHS don’t want it back and charity shops won’t take it, so what can you do with it?
Donate it to Ukraine Relief. They are in desperate need of medical kit that can be sent to Ukraine. The Minster Environment Group will be in the Minster on 26th April where you can drop off your kit for Ukraine Relief to collect.
NOTE: The venue for this event is St George's Chapel in the Minster.
Donate your redundant IT equipment (laptops, PCs, tablets, phones, routers, digital cameras, games consoles, smart watches, satnavs and cables).
Donate IT collect redundant IT equipment and refurbish them or recycle their components to reduce waste and create new products. They then, for example, donate laptops to schools and families to help children struggling at home to continue their education.
The Wimborne Minster Folk Festival is a great event that draws huge crowds to the town to enjoy the dancing and bands. But it also produces a lot of plastic waste. To tackle this plastic waste, local environmental community groups, Planet Wimborne and Wimborne War on Waste, have teamed up with the Folk Festival organisers, Town Council, Wimborne BID and the majority of pubs in the town to launch the reusable Wimborne Cup at this year's Festival. The Wimborne Cup can then be used for any other event in the town.
Planet Wimborne, who organised the week-long Wimborne Green Festival, was keen to involve businesses in the town in celebrating the beauty and fragility of our rivers and teamed up with Wimborne BID to ask shops to create window displays. The theme of this year's Green Festival and the window displays was 'Rivers', which of course is apt, given the Rivers Allen and Stour pass through and by the town. Members of the public were encouraged to stroll around the town to admire the ingenuity of the shops and vote for their favourite window.
Like all good things, the Wimborne Green Festival 2024 has come to a close. And what a week of events we have enjoyed - we firmly believe there was something for everyone. There were some great firsts this year as well - from putting out the community flags (literally) to herald the start of the Festival; to live streaming and recording talks; to running workshops in schools.