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  • Ethical Mending Workshop
    Ethical Mending Workshop
    Ethical Mending Workshop
    Sat, 20 Apr
    Blandford Forum
    20 Apr 2024, 11:00
    20 Apr 2024, 11:00
    Two-hour session at Blandford Museum providing the knowledge to mend your damaged clothes in a creative and personalised style. Extend the life of your favourite wardrobe items! Contact the Museum to reserve a space (£25)
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  • Earth Day Children's Craft
    Earth Day Children's Craft
    Earth Day Children's Craft
    Sat, 20 Apr
    Shaftesbury Library
    20 Apr 2024, 11:00
    20 Apr 2024, 11:00
    Recycle empty cardboard tubes and create some cute minibeasts to take away. Free.
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  • Earth Day
    Earth Day
    Earth Day
    Mon, 22 Apr
    Shaftesbury
    22 Apr 2024, 07:00
    22 Apr 2024, 07:00
    A day marked by environmentalists world-wide since 1970. Planet Shaftesbury is part of an unparalleled global collaboration seeking transformational change. The emphasis in 2024 is to seek a 60% reduction in the production of all plastics by 2040.
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  • Hawkers Re-creatives: drop-in session
    Hawkers Re-creatives: drop-in session
    Multiple Dates
    Hawkers Re-creatives: drop-in session
    Mon, 22 Apr
    Hawkers Farm Barn
    22 Apr 2024, 10:00 – 12:30
    22 Apr 2024, 10:00 – 12:30
    Join our drop-in stitching group on Thursdays, learn how to mend, make a skirt, up-cycle a garment or embroider or just enjoy the company of like minded people. Free. No need to register.
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  • Megan McCubbin: talk
    Megan McCubbin: talk
    Megan McCubbin: talk
    Wed, 24 Apr
    Stour Hall
    24 Apr 2024, 19:30
    24 Apr 2024, 19:30
    “I’m only one person, what can I do to make a difference?” Zoologist, Conservationist & Wildlife Presenter, Megan McCubbin talks in Sturminster Newton this April.
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  • Trust the People
    Trust the People
    Trust the People
    Mon, 29 Apr
    Online course
    29 Apr 2024, 18:00 – 20:30
    29 Apr 2024, 18:00 – 20:30
    Join this free 4-week online course that supports community organisers. Trust the People is a grassroots community building movement, sharing democratic tools to help people support their communities in the face of local and global crises.
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  • Planet Shaftesbury working meeting
    Planet Shaftesbury working meeting
    Planet Shaftesbury working meeting
    Thu, 09 May
    The Grosvenor Arms (in the Snug)
    09 May 2024, 19:30 – 21:30
    09 May 2024, 19:30 – 21:30
    Tonight we expect to focus on some of projects inspired by the Sustainable Shaftesbury action plan. A structured informal meeting open to all.
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  • Defashion Dorset
    Defashion Dorset
    Defashion Dorset
    Fri, 24 May
    Hawker's Farm, Stour Provost
    24 May 2024, 10:00 – 25 May 2024, 17:00
    24 May 2024, 10:00 – 25 May 2024, 17:00
    A 2-day sustainable fashion event promoting Fibre Growers & Makers and a local clothing culture.
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  • World Localisation Day
    World Localisation Day
    World Localisation Day
    Fri, 21 Jun
    Shaftesbury
    21 Jun 2024, 07:00
    21 Jun 2024, 07:00
    An annual worldwide celebration of ecological economies, communities, and local food. An invitation to gain an awareness of place by participating in small-scale, local economic exchanges. To create change locally as part of a global movement for healthier communities and economies.
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  • Celebrating Chase & Chalke Festival
    Celebrating Chase & Chalke Festival
    Celebrating Chase & Chalke Festival
    Wed, 24 Jul
    Larmer Tree Gardens, Rushmore Estate
    24 Jul 2024, 10:00 – 10:05
    24 Jul 2024, 10:00 – 10:05
    Save the date for this festival Drawing together the past, present, and future of our 20 projects
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