National Vegetarian week - By eating veggie food and reducing the effects of climate change, you’re helping to save animals.
National Apple Day – The aim is to celebrate all that is Apples
The Great Big Green Week is the UK's biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature.
Welcome to Great Big Green Week 2025, when a million people – just like you – will come together to be part of a wave of actions for friends and family, climate and nature.
We can all make small swaps, large swaps and swaps that change the system, to make our communities better.
By coming together, we’ll also send a message loud and clear to our politicians and decision makers that we need to swap old ways for better ways now.
The Great Global Nurdle Hunt – Help reduce the risk to wildlife. Nurdles hunts are fun and taking part is easy. By joining in you are helping end plastic pellet pollution.
The Great Global Nurdle Hunt is an annual citizen science event, which asks organisations, communities and individuals to organise nurdle hunts all around the world to draw attention to this issue and collect a snapshot of data on global plastic pellet pollution.
Great British Beach Clean
The Great British Beach Clean is a week-long citizen science event, where hundreds of beach cleans take place up and down the UK. Litter data collected drives our conservation work and also feeds into the International Coastal Clean-up (ICC)
Planet Purbeck Festival - Our aim is to bring everyone together, to have fun, celebrate our local environment and engage with local green sustainability projects.
Celebrating Land, Sea & Community
- 3 events over 2 'wild weekends'
- All our 2024 events are located in Swanage this year
- Free entry to all events - donations encouraged
- Everyone’s welcome
World Ocean day – A healthy world ocean is critical to our survival. people around our blue planet celebrate and honour the ocean, which connects us all.
The theme for 2025 is:Catalyzing Action for Our Ocean & Climate
National growing for wellbeing week - a celebration of the magic that growing your own produce can do for your wellbeing, both physically and mentally.
Green Space Dark Skies - Hundreds of local people needed to come together and create amazing outdoor art in the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty this summer.
Bee-Friendly Gardening – Museum of East Dorset