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All over for another year - Planet Wimborne's Green Festival 2025, 'Buy Better, Be More'
Wimborne Green Festival 2025, 11-18 October
The 2025 Green Festival will be officially opened at 10:30am on Saturday 11th October (on Minster Green) by Paralympic silver-medal-winning canoeist Jack Eyers, with Wimborne’s Deputy Mayor, Cllr Simon Wheeler; Town Crier, Chris Brown; and Planet Wimborne Chairperson, Linda Bunting.
Upcoming events
We are winning on waste - Save your waste and help good causes!
Only items listed below can be taken. Please have your donations pre-sorted.
Sat, Nov 8 2025, 10:30am - 12pm
DEED warmly invites you to attend their Annual General Meeting. The AGM will be preceded by a talk by Pauline Stirling who will share the Earth Museum’s new learning programme: ‘The Air We Breathe’.
Pauline is a retired teacher, freelance educational consultant and Director at DEED. Pauline works with the Earth Museum, a not-for-profit virtual museum on the Isle of Wight.
Tue, Nov 11 2025, 5:30 - 7pm
Wimborne Repair Café is all about fixing things. A place to bring along your items in need of repair that would otherwise be wasted.
The Repair Cafe is run by the community, for the community.
This event not only provides repair services but is also a space for people to come together for a social chat and to pass on skills.
Clothing, textiles, sewing, small electrical, toys, ceramics, jewellery, small furniture and bicycles. Our team of volunteer fixers are on hand to give your items a new lease of life. Free of charge (but donations welcome).
Sat, Nov 15 2025, 12 - 2pm
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
Other news
ALL TICKETS SOLD for 'When Less is More' with Patrick Grant
We are excited to announce that Patrick Grant, from the BBC series ‘The Great British Sewing Bee' will be speaking at Queen Elizabeth’s School on Saturday 18th October at 5pm (doors open at 4.15pm). Patrick is a regular on TV and radio, and has been a key figure on The Great British Sewing Bee since its first series in 2013.
What happens to the IT kit you Donate?
Iconic Wimborne Cup successfully launched at Folk Festival
The Wimborne Cup was successfully launched at this year's Folk Festival. The iconic design certainly caught the eye, with many people buying the cup as a memento of the Festival. 11 pubs and one brewery took part and sold most of the 8,500 cups ordered. The good news is that. anecdotally, there was much less plastic litter in the streets.