If you want to make sustainable shopping choices, you can’t do better than follow the new Pre-LOVEd Rainbow Trail round Wimborne’s second-hand and charity shops.
Wimborne War on Waste
Iconic Wimborne Cup successfully launched at Folk Festival
The Wimborne Cup was successfully launched at this year's Folk Festival. The iconic design certainly caught the eye, with many people buying the cup as a memento of the Festival. 11 pubs and one brewery took part and sold most of the 8,500 cups ordered. The good news is that. anecdotally, there was much less plastic litter in the streets.
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:
Public asked to help design the Wimborne Cup
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.
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
Join Wimborne War on Waste's Community Clean Up, starting at the Fair Ground Shop, in the Cornmarket and finishing at Hanham Road car park.
All ages welcome. Kit available for borrowing.
Please let us know if you would like to join us - it helps us prepare - by emailing wimbornewaronwaste@gmail.com.
Next dates:
March 1
April 26
May 31
We will do others in between as and when there is a need.
Sun, Feb 1 2026, 11:30am - 1pm
Wimborne War on Waste offer Fancy Dress outfits for free for World Book Day.
Bring those book characters to LIFE!
Available at the Fair Ground shop in the Corn Market, Wimborne.
Outfit donations also gratefully received.
Thu, Mar 5 2026, All day
Join Wimborne War on Waste's Community Clean Up, starting at the Fair Ground Shop, in the Cornmarket and finishing at Hanham Road car park.
All ages welcome. Kit available for borrowing.
Please let us know if you would like to join us - it helps us prepare - by emailing wimbornewaronwaste@gmail.com.
Sun, May 31 2026, 11:30am - 1pm
Join Wimborne War on Waste's Community Clean Up, starting at the Fair Ground Shop, in the Cornmarket and finishing at Hanham Road car park.
All ages welcome. Kit available for borrowing.
Please let us know if you would like to join us - it helps us prepare - by emailing wimbornewaronwaste@gmail.com.
Next date: May 31
We will do others in between as and when there is a need.
Sun, Apr 26 2026, 11:30am - 1pm
Wimborne Minster Bunting and Bag group
Established in 2019, a group for volunteers who care about the town and want to reduce waste and single use plastic. Volunteers created enough fabric bunting to cover the town in 2019 and made red white and blue jubilee bunting in 2022. In 2023 the group has made over 500 Boomerang Bags. These have been donated to Wimborne Food Bank and to some of our independent shops in town.
Wimborne Minster Bunting and Bag Group's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2267929280130869