Arundel takes action for nature and climate in Great Big Green Week
May 9, 2025
Communities in the National Park are coming together for a week-long celebration of things we can all do to tackle climate change and protect nature.
Great Big Green Week takes place from 7 to 15 June across the UK and will see communities, schools, and businesses join together in a wave of action to protect the planet.
The idea is if everyone swaps one thing it will add up to make a huge difference – whether that be to swap throwing away unloved items for giving them a new lease of life, swapping skills with an another organisation, or swapping an unloved area in your street for a wildlife space.
Here in the South Downs a bumper week of events is taking place in Arundel, led by the Greening Arundel community alliance.
Activities will include allotment tours and learning how to grow your own food, plastic-free picnics, dawn chorus walks, moth mornings, and community litter picks. There will also be the chance to learn about how to have a “greener wardrobe”.
Every day at Officially Organic, there will be a 25% discount on an organic alternative for your current skincare products.
The celebration follows two years of dedicated work by local volunteers, who have to helped to transform public areas in the town by creating areas for plants and wildlife.
Both sides of the 120m pathway from the train station have been transformed with native hedgerow plants and wildflowers. Sixty six bird nesting nests have been installed across 38 locations, including the Town Hall, and a “House Martin tower” has been erected in a community orchard.
Among the latest plans are creating a community allotment and food forest.
To download the events programme for Arundel click here or see their Facebook page for updates.