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Big Green Day

Beaminster School Newtown, Beaminster

A day showcasing a wide variety of environmental groups - wildlife, energy, recycling, grow your own, sustainable living etc. Lots of friendly and useful information and advice! Plus live music, children's activities, delicious refreshments.

Free

Choral Evensong

St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

You are warmly invited to our monthly, cathedral-style service of Choral Evensong on Saturday 27th September at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes Grieg’s ‘Ave maris stella’, the ‘Preces & Responses’ by Bernard Rose, Dyson’s ‘Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D’ and Balfour Gardiner’s ‘Te lucis ante terminum’. Admission is free and […]

Free

Springhead Open Gardens Day, Sunday 28th September 2025

Springhead Gardens Mill Street, Fontmell Magna

Explore the lakeside gardens at Springhead on Sunday 28th September from 10.00 am – 4.00 pm. Entry is free; donations towards the upkeep of the garden are welcome. Teas, coffees, soft drinks and cake will be available to purchase from our pop-up cafe. Assisted wheelchair access. Dogs on leads are welcome. For further information email [email protected] or […]

Swap and Style. Sustainable Fashion Week.

Hawkers Farm Stour Provost, Gillingham

As part of Sustainable Fashion Week, reclaim fashion and rejuvenate your wardrobe at our clothes swap hosted by Defashion Dorset. Styling advice on hand. Bring up to 5 items in good clean condition to swap. Held at Hawkers Farm near Gillingham SP8 5LZ For more info www.hawkersfarm.org

Free

Fashion Reclaimed: Sew Swap Style

The Sherborne Newlands, Sherborne, Dorset, United Kingdom

Hosted by Defashion Dorset at The Sherborne as part of Sustainable Fashion Week, the show will feature unique creations made at The Sherborne’s mending workshops, celebrating the creativity and ingenuity of sustainable fashion. To round off the event, take part in a clothes swap, a fun and eco-friendly way to refresh your wardrobe. Bring up to 5 […]

£5.00

Pipeline Remix

Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts 21 Kingland Road, Poole

Lighthouse’s Pipeline helps to develop new work with a variety of events for writers and a general audience. With Pipeline Remix, writers take on the challenge of reimaging a favourite scene from a play. And Pipeline Classic is semi-staged performances looking for further development. Whether it’s a Remix, Classic or a Masterclass event, every evening […]

Free

Upcycling and Visible Mending Workshop. Sustainable Fashion Week

Hawkers Farm Stour Provost, Gillingham

As part of Sustainable Fashion Week, this workshop is designed to inspire and empower you to rethink fashion. Whether you are a seasoned maker or curious beginner this workshop is for you.  More info www.hawkersfarm.org

Free

Weymouth Oktoberfest

BEER, FOOD AND GOOD TIMES? This sound like you? Then join us for again for Weymouth's best Oktoberfest, a party that Germany would be proud of. We are back again, bigger and better than last year with 12 solid hours of Great music, food, beer and fun. Our adults only tent will be in full […]

Weymouth Oktoberfest

weymouth and portland rugby club Weymouth & Portland Rugby Club, Weymouth

BEER, FOOD AND GOOD TIMES? This sound like you? Then join us for again for Weymouth's best Oktoberfest, a party that Germany would be proud of. We are back again, bigger and better than last year with 12 solid hours of Great music, food, beer and fun. Our adults only tent will be in full […]

Quiz Night

The Trinity Centre Shaftesbury Bimport, Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom

In aid of Read Easy Blackmore Vale North.  Gather your team of 6 and join us.  Entrance fee includes £10 fish & chip supper or vegetarian option.  Doors open at 18:30 for 19:00 start. Quiz Master:  Colin Fletcher

£18.00

Choral Eucharist

St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

You are warmly invited to our cathedral-style service of Choral Eucharist on Sunday 5th October at 10.30am in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes: Bairstow’s ‘I sat down under his shadow’, Mozart’s ‘Missa brevis in Bb K275’ and Ole Gjeilo’s ‘Ubi caritas’. All are very welcome to this free service and for refreshments afterwards. […]

Free

Live Laugh Love Ladies Club – Poundbury, Dorchester – Guest Speaker: Mike Randall – Cyprus Archaeology

Crossroads 1 Crown Square, Poundbury,, Dorchester, dorset, United Kingdom

MIKE RANDALL – WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER – CYPRUS ARCHAEOLOGY  We welcome back to Live Laugh Love Ladies Club Poundbury Dorchester Mike Randall, a volunteer from the town’s Shire Hall. With his wealth of history knowledge, he will be giving a talk on “Cyprus Archaeology.”    Cyprus is at the gateway of all ancient civilizations including Greek, Phoenician, Egyptian, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and British. It is […]

£18.000 – £24.00