The Frome Great Big Green Week returns with a week of events celebrating Frome's green spaces and how the local community is taking action to tackle climate change. 

Highlights include:

Sunday September 11

Frome Heritage Tree Walk - 2pm-3.30pm, start outside the Cheese & Grain - £7

Join local author and ancient tree specialist Julian Hight on a walk to see some of Frome's most majestic trees and hear about their history and lore. The easy walk will include Millennium Green, Rodden Meadow and the town centre, and take around two hours.

Monday 12:

Planet Friendly Living - 7pm- 9.30pm, Frome Town Hall - Free

Join environmental educator, local teacher and author Claire Vowell who will shine a light on nurdles, "the worst toxic waste you have probably never heard of!". What are they, what's their link to single use plastics and how are they impacting on wildlife around the world? 

Tuesday 13th September

MOTHERLOAD film screening - 7pm-9.30pm, Frome Town Hall - Free

Sustainable Frome present MOTHERLOAD - a crowd sourced documentary in which the cargo bicycle becomes a vehicle for exploring motherhood in this digital age of climate change. The film follows director and new mother Liz Canning on her quest to understand the increasing tension between modern life and our hunter-gatherer DNA, and how cargo bikes offer a solution. 

The Climate Emergency: Five Things to Change and Four Ways to Do It - 7pm-8pm, The Silk Mill - Free

We face a shortening time window to stop chaotic climate change. A quick run through of the problems with the current system, five things to change and four ways to do it. Whilst only the government has the power to make such rapid transitions in the next 2 to 3 years, it is vital we all do what we are telling the government to do.

Councillor Shane Collins is a long time Green activist involved with anti-roads protests, drug reform and climate campaigning. Lost 15 elections before being elected to Mendip DC in 2015 and Somerset Council in 2022. Shane is also a director of the Green Gathering Festival and programmes the Speakers Forum at Glastonbury Festival.

Celebrating existing plastic free and sustainable businesses in town and an opportunity to learn how to become a sustainable business.

Wednesday 14th September

Yoga in the Meadow - 12.30pm-1.30pm, Rodden Meadow - suggested donation of £5

Mindful Flow. Taking in the beautiful surroundings of Rodden Meadow, this class is designed to help unravel physical tension whilst calming the nervous system, taking its inspiration from Vinyasa Flow Yoga but without being too wild or intense. The class will help you connect considered movement with deep breath in fluid but easy to follow sequences. It is open to all levels from active beginners, continuing students as well as advanced practitioners. Bring your own mat. Meet at the Willow Vale end of the meadow. 

Climate Action Group - 7pm-8.30pm, Frome Town Hall - Free

The Climate Action Group is a space to network and share ideas about how we can keep healthy, active and green, where we can learn from and be inspired by one another. This meeting will focus on active and sustainable transport. Everyone is welcome whether you are part of a business, a community group, a charity or just an interested individual.

Thursday 15th September

Wild Bunch on Location - 1.30pm-2.30pm, Broadway Allotments - Free

Join the Frome Wild Bunch for their monthly gathering to promote and share ideas about Gardenign for Wildlife. For Great Big Green Week, they'll be on location in Broadway Allotments, learning about this amazing nature space in the midst of our town, and looking at maintaining 'wild' spaces we may have created in our own gardens.

Friday 16th September

Pond Dipping & Community Wildlife Mapping

Join our Resilience Officer Jo Morris to investigate the wildlife at the new pond in Welshmill. Try out some pond-dipping methods, learn about amphibians and explore the variety of insects and their larva in and around the pond. There'll also be a chance to find out about the Community Wildlife Mapping project and how you can get involved.

Saturday 17th September

Frome Churchyards' Biodiversity Trail - 10am-12.30pm, start from Dissenters' Cemetery - £3 per adult (children free)

Explore the churchyards of Frome and discover the biodiversity flourishing within them. Churchyards are among the few areas unaffected over the centuries by farming and development, and each provides its own unique blend of plants and habitats for wildlife. This one-mile trail starts with a short talk at Dissenters' Cemetery, BA11 3EH, and continues to Christ Church and Wesley Methodist, finishing at St John's churchyard.

Sunday 18th September

Walk along the river with FORF to find out why our river is how it is. The walk will start at Welshmill Weir and head through the town along the Retreat and to Adderwell, then back to the town centre by road. FORF will explain everything from the history of the river and the otters, beavers and other wildlife that lives in and near it, to pollution, flooding, development and the FORF strategy.