Rivers of Glory - Wimborne shop window display winners announced

Planet Wimborne, who organised the week-long Wimborne Green Festival, was keen to involve businesses in the town in celebrating the beauty and fragility of our rivers and teamed up with Wimborne BID to ask shops to create window displays.  The theme of this year's Green Festival and the window displays was 'Rivers', which of course is apt, given the Rivers Allen and Stour pass through and by the town.  Members of the public were encouraged to stroll around the town to admire the ingenuity of the shops and vote for their favourite window.

Best ever Wimborne Green Festival comes to a close

Like all good things, the Wimborne Green Festival 2024 has come to a close.  And what a week of events we have enjoyed - we firmly believe there was something for everyone.  There were some great firsts this year as well - from putting out the community flags (literally) to herald the start of the Festival; to live streaming and recording talks; to running workshops in schools.

Dorset Cyclists Network

Dorset Cyclists Network

We are not just a cycling club but a campaign run by elected volunteers covering the whole of Dorset including Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

We are a consultation group used by local authorities on cycling proposals and we work with them. We lobby the councils to improve cycle facilities, especially on behalf of people who cycle to school, work and to the shops.

We work with other organisations with compatible aims.

We help to identify cyclists’ needs such as safer junctions, secure parking, better signs etc.

Dorset Bird Club

Dorset Bird Club

To promote the interest of birds and birdwatching in Dorset.  To collate bird records and produce an annual Dorset Bird Report.  To maintain a database of current and historic bird records which is accessible on request to all national and local research and conservation bodies. To provide comment on and support local conservation issues. To promote and support local regeneration and conservation projects. To support and encourage participation in local and national surveys. 

Colehill Sew and Sews

Colehill Sew and Sews

We are a local  group making, dresses and shorts for charity, meeting on the first Wednesday of every month in the home of the founder member. Our aim is to encourage and enable volunteers to join together to have a fun time, to chat, make new friends and share sewing skills  whilst making clothes for children in areas of poverty where we have links, ie. orphanages in India, Africa and Cambodia.  Many of these children have never received new clothes.  
Inspired by and loosely based on “Dress a Girl Around the World” 

National Nest Box Week

Time to mend, clear out and put up nest boxes.
 

Find out how to choose a great nest box, where to put it, and how to look after it. Also, make your own – it’s easy and won’t cost the earth.

Fri, Feb 14 - Fri, Feb 21 2025, All day