Circular Dorking Projects
Circular Dorking’s Great Big Green Week Event 2025
7 – 15 JUNE • Let’s swap together for good 2025
Every year we hold a Great Big Green Week event in Dorking to celebrate all our amazing businesses and organisations taking steps towards being more sustainable in their practices. This year’s big celebration of Great Big Green Week in Dorking and the surrounding areas was a great occasion organised by the community for the community. Thank you to all who took part in what was an amazing week.
7 June: The Big Celebration in St Martin’s Walk – Photo Gallery
A Great Big Thank you to All our Stall Holders
- 1 Foodfloat
- 2 Circular Dorking
- 3 Circular Dorking Home Energy Advice Team (HEAT )
- 4 Surrey Sustainable Network
- 5 Men’s Shed
- 6 Repair Café Stall
- 7 Lucis College
- 8 The Dorking Turnery
- 9 Surrey Wildlife Trust
- 10 Johnny Selmer
- 11 Mid Surrey Community Fridges
- 12 Dorking Trees for Life
- 13 The Dance Project
- 14 CPR IT Waste
- 15 Hello Dorking
- 16 Proud of Mole Valley
- 17 Dorking Library
- 18 Surrey Federation of WI’s
- 19 Pippfest/CHiP
- 20 Community Orchard
- 21 Beatitudes
- 22 Art K
- 23 Knit and Natter
- 24 Repair Café at the Christian Centre
- 25 Old Kings Head Court
- 26 Tracey’s Sewing Room
8 June: Dorking Eco Hub – ‘The River in Summer’ Talk
11 June: The Big Green Garden Party
The Garden Party in the beautiful garden at Downs Solicitors was Circular Dorking’s way of saying a BIG Green Thank You to all the amazing individuals, organisations and businesses who do so much to make our town truly circular and help to create a resilient and inclusive community. We are forever grateful there are so many of you.
A Great Big Thank You also goes to…
12 June: The Big Litter Pick
It was so great to so many enthusiastic people cleaning up the town.
A Great Big Thank You also goes to…
💚 Hello Dorking – the incredible organisers
💚 Dorking Men’s Shed
💚 Deepdene Care Home
💚 Bullimores
💚 Unum
💚 Aviva
💚 Waitrose
💚 Dorking Nursery (who took part in their local grounds)
💚 Local residents
15 June: Picnics and Poems
We enjoyed listening to poems on the subject of Nature, the Planet and Wellbeing in the peaceful surroundings of the Dorking Friends’ Meeting House garden. We are extremely grateful to Dorking Guerrilla Poets, the Narnia Group, Dorking Quakers, Damn Cheek Productions and Mole Valley Poets who collaborated on this event and to all who attended.
A reminder of all the events which took place in Dorking and the surrounding area over the week
Events listing:
- Saturday 7th June • Dorking’s Big Swap, Switch, Share • The Big Celebration • St Martin’s Walk, Dorking • 10am – 3pm
- Saturday 7th June • Dorking Repair Café • Dorking Christian Centre • 10.30am – 1pm
- Saturday 7th June • Make a bag from scrap material • Tracey’s Sewing Room (contact Tracey to book)
- Saturday 7th June • Lucis College • Free talk on Flower Remedies • 12.15pm – 12.45pm • Free event, please book
- Saturday 7th June • Dorking Library • Craft Sessions from 10.30am
- Sunday 8th June • Pixham Street Swap • 10am – 4pm
- Sunday 8th June • GBGW Dorking Eco Hub • The River in Summer • Dorking Quaker Meeting House • 2pm – 4pm
- Wednesday 11th June • Ocean with David Attenborough, Screening at Dorking Halls • 7pm
- Wednesday 11th June • BGW Big Green Garden Party • Circular Dorking Business and Membership Event • Downs Solicitors Community Garden (Invitation only event for Circular Dorking members) please contact us
- Thursday 12th June • GBGW Hello Dorking Litter pick • 10am -1pm • Meet at South Street Gardens, please contact Jo
- Sunday 15th June • Picnics and Poems – Quaker Meeting House Garden • 1pm – 4pm • Free ticketed event
About Great Big Green Week 2025
The Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature. Every year, people come together to unleash a wave of support for action to protect the planet. Tens of thousands of people in every corner of the country celebrate the heartfelt, brave, everyday actions being taken to stand up for nature and fight climate change, through all kinds of Great Big Green Week events.
