Merley Nature Group

Merley Nature Group

Merley Nature Group is a small group of residents passionate about our local wildlife. Our aim is to get the community involved in managing wildlife habitats around them, help enhance and protect wildlife habitats, meet like-minded people and at the same time improve their wellbeing by being outdoors. 

Wimborne Contemporary Arts

Wimborne Contemporary Arts

Wimborne Contemporary Arts is an informal association that organises a series of occasional contemporary music, sound art and multi-media events in the area of Wimborne, usually with an environmental theme. The aim is to keep alive the spirit of experimentation embodied by Wimborne’s most famous musical son, Robert Fripp. Wimborne Contemporary Arts is part of the national experimental music network, Outlands.

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.

Wimborne Green Festival

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.

Wimborne Green Festival
Bird Ringing and Moth Trapping - Event Now Full - all tickets allocated

A Planet Wimborne Green Festival Event

This free bird ringing and moth trapping event is being held at Deans Court on Sunday 13th October.  This is a great opportunity to join Wilding Wimborne to see and hear about the wildlife on our doorstep.

Tickets are free, but as numbers are limited, please book either online (https://buytickets.at/planetwimborne/1365870) or collect from the Fair Ground shop in the Corn Market.
Donations to help us cover costs would be appreciated.


 

Sun, Oct 13 2024, 9:30 - 11:30am
International E-Waste Day 2024

Join the E-Waste Hunt - Retrieve, Recycle, and Revive!

This year’s day runs under the slogan “Join the e-waste hunt - retrieve, recycle, and revive!” focusing on the unused electronics that people store in their homes without realising these items contain valuable materials that could gain a new life. E-waste includes anything with a plug, cable, or battery, but the most often ‘forgotten’ items are small electronics: old mobile phones, cables, USB keys, card readers, game consoles, and other devices that are often kept out of sight in drawers.

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Mon, Oct 14 2024, All day
Wimborne War on Waste - River Clean

Meet at Crown Mead by the steps into the river at 11am.  Some people will be going into the river at different stages with boots and waders on, while others 'spot' from the banks and hold onto the litter collected.

Please contact wimbornewaronwaste@gmail.com if you would like to come on the River Clean as they need to to know numbers.

Tue, Sep 3 2024, 11am - 1pm
Dorset COP - Conference of the Parties 2025

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

Sat, Nov 1 2025, All day
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