Planet Wimborne aims to bring the community in Wimborne and surrounding areas together in response to the climate and ecological emergency.
If you would like to join Planet Wimborne and receive our Newsletter (which is emailed roughly every two months), please fill in the form via the button below.
Sign up as an individual
If you represent a group, organisation or business which shares Planet Wimborne's aims of tackling the climate and ecological crises and would like to become affiliated to Planet Wimborne and receive our Newsletter, please fill in the form via the button below.
Sign up as a group, organisation or business.
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.
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.
Wessex Water and Bournemouth Water invite you to a Drop-in Session at Wimborne Library, Monday 13th October, 10am - 2pm.
Chat in person, if you have a query about your water bill; or your water and sewerage services; or to find out how to save water and prevent sewer blockages.
A copy of the poster for the Drop-In Session is at this link.
Wimborne Bunting and Bag group, along with their partner repair and sewing groups, invite you to join them on Monday 13th October.
Learn how to make your own bag or bunting and enjoy a coffee and cake.
Our Planet Wimborne Green Festival page has details of all the other great Festival events.
Join us for talks on the state of our local rivers and the work that is going on to support them. The talks are on Monday 13th October 2025 in Allendale House in the Castleman Suite (on the first floor).
The four talks are:
International E-waste day - focusing on the unused electronics that people store in their homes without realising these items contain valuable materials that could gain a new life.
Please join us for Wimborne BID and Wimborne War on Waste's 'Steps to a Greener Business' free event at Wimborne Methodist Church Hall on Tuesday 14th October 2024 at 12.30 until 14.00.
Across the UK, businesses are rethinking their impact on the environment. Come and find out what some local businesses are doing to work towards a more sustainable future. Lunch will be provided when there will be opportunity to chat with other businesses.
A Climate Café® is a community-led, informal, inspiring space to get together, share ideas, information and get involved in climate action.
No need to book tickets. Just come along for a friendly chat about how we can help the environment over a cup of tea/coffee and cake.
Donations to help us cover costs would be appreciated.
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.
The Wimborne Minster Folk Festival is a great event that draws huge crowds to the town to enjoy the dancing and bands. But it also produces a lot of plastic waste. To tackle this plastic waste, local environmental community groups, Planet Wimborne and Wimborne War on Waste, have teamed up with the Folk Festival organisers, Town Council, Wimborne BID and the majority of pubs in the town to launch the reusable Wimborne Cup at this year's Festival. The Wimborne Cup can then be used for any other event in the town.
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.