Shipston’s Great Big Green Week  takes place from  7th June - 15th June

Saturday 7th June

• Teddy Bears’ Picnic, 12 noon-2pm, at the Scout Hut and Little Recreation Ground CV36 4AW.

After the usual monthly litter pick, Great Big Green Week will begin with a community Teddy Bears Picnic. It’s free to attend – just bring your own picnic and a teddy.  Plant-based picnics free of single-use plastics are encouraged.  Contact SAFE (see below) for some tasty picnic suggestions and recipes.

Music will be provided by the Ukulele group  and there will be a plant/seed swap - feel free to bring some along.

Dress up your teddies in their finest homemade outfits – there will be a prize for the best dressed bear. If wet, the picnic will be in the Scout Hut.

• Free film. The Age of Stupid. 7pm for 7.30pm, at the Scout Hut CV36 4AW

This film from 2009 starring Pete Postlethwaite is part drama, part documentary and part animation. It is set in the year 2055, in a world devastated by rising sea levels and various natural disasters; an archivist examines videos from 2008 to understand why humans didn’t stop climate change before it was too late. Sixteen years later, are we any wiser?
Refreshments will be available, and the film starts at 7.30 pm.

• Fashion show and competition, 2- 4pm, at St Edmund’s Church, Shipston.

Using clothes that are second-hand, home-made or from charity shops.
Children will be signed up either through the primary school, the youth club or the High School. Two age groups: Under 10 and 10-15, plus a couple of surprises!

Two categories: Smart and Casual

Sunday 15th June

• River Day 10am-12 noon Bridge Car Park, Shipston CV36 4AW

There will be a Blessing of the River Stour by Shipston’s Druid, Martin Russell to help us celebrate our river, now and in future.
There will also be music and an opportunity to try some citizen science. You can learn how to test the river water, and how to check for invertebrates using the kick sampling method.

• Free ‘Wild Forage Walk’ by Katie Beswick, starting at 1.30pm outside her shop, Little Bird Soaps in the alleyway next to Telegraph Street car park. CV36 4AF

For more information or for help in taking part, please contact Verity on 07929 889091 who will put you in touch with the leaders of each event.