Planet Wimborne, together with its community groups, delivered a number of inspiring and engaging events to celebrate Earth Day. Earth Day falls on 22nd April every year and issues a call to action for people across the world to come together to help protect our fragile planet. Planet Wimborne takes this 'Think Global, Act Local' principle to provide a great way for local people to come together and feel part of a bigger community effort.
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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:
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!
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:
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.
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.
Dorset residents are being asked to help shape Dorset Council's key priorities to be delivered over the next 5 years in a big conversation. You can find details of the big conversation here: https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/a-big-conversation.
There are 4 main areas where the Council wants to make a difference:
Planet Wimborne's successful networking event on Wednesday 24th July saw over 20 local community groups come together to share their passion for the environment. All the groups are affiliated to Planet Wimborne and spoke about what they were doing, taking the opportunity to talk to others and make connections. It was clear Wimborne and the surrounding area has a dedicated army of volunteers, all of who work for the good of the community.