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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.
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.
As part of the 2025 Planet Wimborne Green Festival, we've issued a challenge:
Submit a photo of an outfit for an event or activity, accompanied by a title explaining the event or activity it is intended for.
The outfit and any accessories should include at least three pre-loved items from three different sources.* (Existing own clothing/items can be included, but nothing new apart from haberdashery, i.e. ribbons, buttons).
Competition closing date: 6th October.
Hosted by Defashion Dorset and the Regenerative Fashion School, Bridport
Swapping and Styling
Talks and Markets
Workshops, Repairs and Skills
See this Dorset Fashion Week Flyer for all the events during this week.
Join Wimborne War on Waste's Community Clean Up, starting at the Fair Ground Shop, in the Cornmarket and finishing at Hanham Road car park.
All ages welcome. Kit available for borrowing.
If you have waders or wellies and would like to go in the river (if it is not too deep by then), feel free to wear them.
Please let us know if you would like to join us - it helps us prepare - by emailing wimbornewaronwaste@gmail.com.
Please note: The next meeting has been changed to Monday 29th September (instead of Thursday 25th).
The Draft Agenda is linked here. We probably won’t get through everything, but we can make a start and get some consensus on what things we would like the group to focus on.
Please let Mitch know if you are able to attend by emailing hedgehogfriendlywimborne@btinternet.com.
Unblocktober - is the world’s first month-long national campaign and awareness month to improve the health of our drains, sewers, watercourses and seas
UK Fungus day. An annual celebration of our fungal world
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.
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.