Emily Metcalfe, a Creative Media student at Poole College, reports on Wimborne Green Festival’s apple pressing event.
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Planet Wimborne Green Festival 2025 - Recordings of talks now available
Planet Wimborne is extremely grateful to all the speakers for their inspirational and informative talks and for allowing them to be recorded.
You can now find the following videos and accompanying presentation slides from the 2025 Planet Wimborne Green Festival festival at this link.
Upcoming events
World Toilet Day – This World Toilet Day, let’s make the invisible visible.
Wed, Nov 19 2025, All day
National Tree week. online talks available
Sat, Nov 22 - Sun, Nov 30 2025, All day
World soil Day – Be the solution to soil pollution
Fri, Dec 5 2025, All day
International Animal Rights day – an annual event honouring animals as sentient beings who deserve the same protections as people.
Wed, Dec 10 2025, All day
We are winning on waste - Save your waste and help good causes!
Please note - the venue cannot accept donations in advance.
Only items listed below can be taken. Please have your items pre-sorted.
Sat, Jan 10 2026, 10:30am - 12pm
Other news
Bring Your Own to this year's Folk Festival to help cut plastic waste and litter
Planet Wimborne and Wimborne War on Waste have teamed up with Wimborne Folk Festival to promote the 'Bring Your Own' message at this year's festival to cut plastic waste and litter. People coming to the festival over the weekend of 6th June are being encouraged to:
Let's Make Wimborne a Hedgehog Friendly Town!
Everyone loves a hedgehog and we are lucky to have some of our prickly friends in Wimborne. Unfortunately ‘hogs have suffered a huge decline across the UK, and desperately need a bit of help! Enter Susy and Colin Varndell from Dorset Mammal Group!
Wimborne Cup design - as chosen by the public
There was a great response from the public to decide on their favourite Wimborne cup design, with 463 votes cast across the three designs. Becky Dodd of Doddy Design, who created the designs, said, “It was great to see so many people voting for their favourite cup design. I can’t wait to see people with the cup at the Folk Festival and other events around town.”
And we can now reveal the cup: