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 to this year's Folk Festival to help cut plastic waste and litter
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:
Let's Make Wimborne a Hedgehog Friendly Town!
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!
National Hedgehog Awareness week - British Hedgehog Preservation Society. Aims to highlight the problems hedgehogs face and how you can help them.
Sun, May 4 - Sat, May 10 2025, All day
Find out about garden wildlife - specifically Moths.
Museum of East Dorset Garden - access at the rear of the museum, by the Hilda Coles Centre (where the tea room is, next to the public library)
Fri, Jul 25 2025, 9:30am - 12:30pm
13 May 7.00pm. Online
Join Dorset Climate Action Network to discuss community-led initiatives for improving river health.
To find out more and register for this event, see https://www.dorsetcan.org/all_events/cleaning-up-dorset-s-rivers-zoom-event/
Tue, May 13 2025, 7 - 8:30pm
Wimborne Cup design - as chosen by the public
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:
Water plays a pivotal role in global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to build resilience safeguarding ecosystems and communities.
World Water Week 2025 will focus on addressing the linked emergencies of climate change, environment degradation and biodiversity loss, emphasizing both mitigation and adaptation, alongside the broader goal of enhancing resilience.
Sun, Aug 24 - Thu, Aug 28 2025, All day
Started in 2002, National Allotments Week is an initiative which runs annually to help raise awareness of allotments and the role they play in helping people to live healthier lifestyles, grow their own food, develop friendships and bolster communities.
Our annual awareness week will run this year from the 11-17 August 2025,and we have chosen a theme of “Allotments and Wellbeing”
Mon, Aug 11 - Sun, Aug 17 2025, All day