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You are invited to come along to our AGM on Wednesday 21st January 2026 at 7pm for a 7.30pm start at the Lion Hotel.  This is an opportunity to meet the Trustees and hear about our work over the past year and what our plans are for the coming one.  Here is a link to the Agenda and Papers.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Kind regards

Trustees:
Linda Bunting (Chair)
Neil Smith
Jeff Hart
Adrian Newton
Judy Windwood
 

Sign saying Apple Pressing by St John's Church

Emily Metcalfe, a Creative Media student at Poole College, reports on Wimborne Green Festival’s apple pressing event.

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.

 

Some of The  Planet Wimborne Team with Patrick Grant after his talk at the QE School
Some of the Planet Wimborne Team with Patrick Grant, after his talk at the QE School

 

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.

2024 Opening of the Green Festival with Vikki Slade and a Womble

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.

 

Simon Barfoot of BlackmoreIT & DonateIT presenting Linda Bunting of MEG with a laptop for Wimborne Food Bank.
Simon Barfoot of BlackmoreIT & DonateIT presenting Linda Bunting of MEG with a laptop for Wimborne Food Bank.

 

 

 

 

Wimborne Cup

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.

Bring your own Cup Poster

 

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: