A Message From Rob... Treat yourself to some good news!Pause, take a moment, make yourself a cuppa and soak up all the encouraging and positive news happening right here in Purbeck and Dorset! I am going to keep my bit short and sweet as there are so many exciting projects in Purbeck & Dorset we want to share […]
With over 50 booked events now the Planet Purbeck Festival lineup is looking really exciting!
Hear Matt Jones, owner of The Blue Pool as he explains why it's so special and what he has planned for the Festival in September.
🌳Becca and Bruno from Lynch Plantation in Kingston will be hosting an educational walk and talk.
🍃Learn about their vision and efforts to manage the 25-year-old, 20-acre plantation in an environmentally conscious way.
🐞🌷See how regenerated agricultural grassland has been changed into a diverse habitat
FREE event
Booking Required
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💎Theveteransforge is a hidden gem in Corfe Castle...
♻️Here, Will Spicer recycles everything from copper boilers, tank tracks, bolts and gun barrels, and turns them into attractive flowers, benches, and memorial plaques.
🔧🔨Experience being a blacksmith for a day during the #Planet PurbeckFestival!
Prices vary
Booking essential
▶️http://ow.ly/sacy50GbX50
📣There's a VERY special guest visiting Careys Secret Garden next week. Some have described him as the "David Attenborough of the plant world!"
🌿Sir Ghillean Prance will be delivering a talk on on Sustainable Forest Use at 11am - 1pm, Thurs 23rd Sept.
🌳Sir Ghillean Prance is internationally renowned and respected Ethno-Botanist and Ecologist. Formerly Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewand Scientific Director of the Eden Project in Cornwall and is Visiting Professor at Reading University.
Tickets cost £10
▶️Book here > ow.ly/pMRV50GbNgq
📚♻️ 📝 As part of the #PlanetPurbeckfestival, Swanage Library Friends in partnership with Purbeck Development Trust will be hosting a recycled materials craft activity on the 20th September 3:30pm-4:30 pm.
🙌 This is a free craft activity for children aged 5 and upwards. Create you own art piece to take away using things we usually throw away!
The Purbeck Heaths National Nature Reserve is at the heart of the Wild Purbeck initiative, lead by the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - AONB team to bring organisations together for wildlife 🐞🌿🦉
🦎During Purbeck Heaths week and #PlanetPurbeckFestival we're excited to announce National Trust Studland Bay will be collaborating with various local organisations to host a huge array of special events.
📣PLUS we'll have National Trust speakers at The Act Local, Think Global and Wild Purbeck Conference taking place Sat 25th at The Mowlem.
🍃It's all FREE!
▶️View the festival timetable and search for 'National Trust' to view all of the events by day. ow.ly/5Fdz50G7HYE
Wessex Wild Grazing Dorset Wildlife Trust Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - AONB Heath Week
