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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.
Dorset COP (Conference of the Parties) is Dorset’s very own opportunity for the community to have its say on the climate and ecological crises. By bringing together a wide cross section of community-based groups from across the county we hope to raise awareness of the need and desire to act locally, in a way that puts people at the heart of decisions and is socially just.
This year's event is on Saturday 1st November at The Exchange, Sturminster Newton
This years theme is Turning Environmental Ambition into Action
Wimborne Community Centre (access from King Street car park). Saturday 1st November 9am - 12 noon.
Donate your old electricals and swap the items you don't want for the ones you do - for FREE!
Nothing to donate? No problem! Come along and browse a selection of donated items which have been PAT tested.
What can you donate at Give or Take events?
Personal grooming products e.g. hairdryers and straighteners.
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.
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.
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).
World Toilet Day – This World Toilet Day, let’s make the invisible visible.
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.