Join us for a day of conservation in the Lim catchment as we work together to remove this invasive plant species from our local area. No experience necessary - just bring your enthusiasm and willingness to pull out plants. Gloves provided. Bring your own refreshments (there will be a picnic break!). Families welcome but 12 and over children only (must be accompanied).

Event Timings: from late May to September. Weekdays and weekends - dates and times to be confirmed.

• June 6 & 7 - confirmed 10.00am - 2.00pm, meet at St. Mary’s Lane, Uplyme.

• June: 27, 28

• July: 11, 12, 25, 26

• August: 8, 9, 29, 30

Location:  River Lim - exact location will be confirmed.

Just email Organiser: Graham Roberts gbroberts51@gmail.com to register an interest in our Himalayan Balsam Pulling days along the River Lim.

Join us for a day of conservation in the Lim catchment as we work together to remove this invasive plant species from our local area. No experience necessary - just bring your enthusiasm and willingness to pull out plants. Gloves provided. Bring your own refreshments (there will be a picnic break!). Families welcome but 12 and over children only (must be accompanied).

Event Timings: from early June to September. Weekdays and weekends - dates and times to be confirmed.

• June 6 and 7 - confirmed 10.00am - 2.00pm, meet at St Mary’s Lane Uplyme.

• June: 27, 28

• July: 11, 12, 25, 26

• August: 8, 9, 29, 30

Location:  River Lim - exact location will be confirmed.

Just email Organiser: Graham Roberts gbroberts51@gmail.com to register an interest in our Himalayan Balsam Pulling days along the River Lim.

Meet at the RNLI Shop. We can provide litter pickers, gloves and bags/buckets but if you can bring your own, all the better. We dispose of the rubbish.

Free hot drink or ice cream from Baboo for all participants. Thank you to them!

For more information, contact litterpicklyme@gmail.com.

Hosted by Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society a talk by Charlotte Heavisides ‘ The Revival of the British Flower Growing Industry’.

Flower farmer Charlotte looks at the demise and recent resurgence of the industry. Tips on growing flowers sustainably.

Non members welcome - fee of £3.00. Refreshments from 7.00pm

An event sponsored by Lyme Regis Town Council, Turn Lyme Green and Dorset Greener Homes.

Do you want to reduce your energy bills and carbon emissions? You can do both by installing solar panels on your roof. With high fuel prices you could pay back the cost in 7-9 years and increase the value of your home.

We have arranged for three local installers we trust to offer a competitive rate, for 20-40 homes around Lyme Regis to install PVs and/or batteries.

Come to a meeting at 7pm on Tuesday May 20th for details of the scheme and get answers to your questions from our recommended installers.

Just ask for a survey and quotation, no obligation.

These are not the cheapest panels but we have chosen reliable installers we trust who will install good quality equipment which will last.

If you cannot make the meeting but are interested please email Turn Lyme Green at enquiries@turnlymegreen.co.uk

LRTC, Turn Lyme Green and Dorset Can ARE NOT getting any payment from the installer – we just want to see more solar panels to tackle climate change.

THE BIG PADDLE OUT turns the spotlight onto sewage pollution. Join the National Day of Action demanding an end to sewage pollution. It was great fun last year and really well supported in Lyme Regis by about 200 people, some wearing fabulous fancy dress outfits . Come along and make the Lyme Regis event even bigger than last year. Meet on Sandy Beach at 11.30am.

No Dig Gardening - How to get the soil to work for you - A Talk by BECKY SEARLE hosted by the UPLYME & LYME REGIS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. A different take on no-dig gardening for novices and seasoned gardeners alike.

Becky Searle is a garden writer and speaker passionate about grow-your-own gardening, wildlife gardening and soil health. Becky trained as an ecologist and has many years gardening experience. Her ability to explain biological processes and ecological principles in a way that is easy to understand has gained her a large and loyal following.

Admission to Members Free, Guests £3.00

Refreshments available from 7.00pm

Join Turn Lyme Green for a talk with Lyme Regis resident CLAIRE ANHOLT DUTHUIT who works at the heart of global climate action with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions. Claire recently returned from COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and will soon be heading to COP30 in Belém — the gateway to the Brazilian Amazon.

 Drawing on 20 years of experience amplifying the voices of local leaders, businesses, grassroots changemakers and civil society advocates around the world, Claire will share why ambitious action — including in towns just like Lyme Regis — is essential to tackling climate change.

From innovative solutions pioneered in Dhaka to the power of community leadership in Devon and Dorset, this is a chance to explore how local solutions connect directly to the global stage. 

The talk will feature visuals from creative climate campaigns across the world, plus an interactive exercise to reveal that Lyme’s connection to global diplomacy is closer than you might think.

The talk will start at approx 7.30pm following the AGM which will start at 6.45pm.

Everyone is welcome to attend the AGM to hear the annual report and accounts. RSVP welcomed - enquiries@turnlymegreen.co.uk

FREE entry to AGM and Talk. Refreshments available.

An event hosted by CHARDSTOCK EGO GROUP.

ROB and PIPPA EVANS retired to Chard where they had found a plot of land to build on.

They will take us on their journey of building their eco home using straw bales. They’ll share their trials and tribulations and explain why they took on this project in the first place. It will provide us with an interesting glimpse into how easy/difficult ‘going eco’ really is.

A fun Easter Half Term Activity! Bring a bucket if you can. Gloves and litter pickers provided.

Free hot drink or ice cream from Baboo for all participants.

Meet at the RNLI shop at the Cobb.

As part of the ‘THE SHUTE FESTIVAL’ an interesting talk is being given by JULIA HAILES MBE, a sustainability pioneer with nearly 40 years in the green sector. Julia is a campaigner, writer, speaker and consultant and has written or co-written, nine environmental books, including ‘The Green Consumer Guide’, which sold over a 1 million copies worldwide. Julia is also an Ambassador for The Rainforest Trust. Julia will be just back from the rainforests of Guyana and will be giving an illustrated talk with highlights from her recent trip.

Booking is required and tickets can be obtained from 'Woodroffe Talks': How rainforests have changed my life, with Julia Hailes .

Come and find some flowers and veg to grow for 2025! Our aim is to distribute open-pollinated seeds to gardeners and to encourage growers to save seed from them and return with them to the seed swap in the following year.

We want to encourage gardeners of all ages to grow food and flowers, without cost being an issue. Whether you have a pot outside your back door or a sprawling garden, anyone can get involved and enjoy the benefits.

With special thanks to Tamar Organics who’ve kickstarted our Seed Saturday with a generous donation of seeds. We also welcome CB Plants, The Dorset Bee and Winnow Farm Seeds. In addition we will have a table for sharpening secateurs - pull them out of your shed, dust off the grime and bring them along.

All are welcome. Free entry, bring your saved seeds to swap, or make a donation. Don’t forget to bring cash for the tea and home baked cakes.

There are 2000 active and worked-out quarries across the UK, representing a huge opportunity to create specialist habitats where native flora and fauna can thrive.

Our speaker, ANDY LITTLER, is a geologist, chartered engineer and quarry manager with a passion for natural history. He has spent 40 years pioneering the restoration of quarries to biodiverse habitats. He wrote the first Quarry Biodiversity Action Plans in the UK and runs courses for quarry professionals on the subject. Andy lives in Charmouth and is currently working on quarry restoration projects in Dorset along Puddletown Road, Wareham and at Chard.

Free entry, refreshments available.

Join UPLYME & LYME REGIS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY for an insightful talk by SALLY NEX on how to garden more sustainably.

Refreshments available from 7.00pm, talk starts at 7.30pm.

This event is open to all, non-members are welcome for just £3.

We would love to welcome all supporters for our annual gathering - a chance to chat, meet other supporters and catch up on all our activities and campaigns - including River Lim Action, our Seed Swap, the Recycle Sewing Group’s boomerang bags, litter picks and talks.

We will start festivities at 7.00pm. TLG will provide drinks and, if you are able, we will welcome sharing plates of nibbles- sweet or savoury, your choice.

We look forward to 2025 with your support and enthusiasm, we will continue to work together for a better environment for our community and visitors.

To help us plan the evening, an rsvp would be helpful. But do know you are welcome even with a last minute decision. Email enquiries@turnlymegreen.co.uk

The Organisers and Sponsers of Lyme Regis Repair Cafe invite you to join them on Saturday 18th January between 2.00 and 4.00pm at the Power Boat Club, Monmouth Beach. Enjoy refreshments, a chat and learn more about how Repair Cafe’s can benefit our Community by creating a cleaner world without unnecessary waste.

The Lyme Litterpickers remain hard at work tackling rubbish and clearing up plastic pollution. Meet at the RNLI shop at the Cobb. Bring a bucket if you can. Gloves and litter pickers provided. Mince Pies will also be provided!

Event hosted by Little Green Change. Free kids toys, clothing and books. Bring an empty bag and fill it up. For more information see littlegreenchange.com/give-take

Event hosted by Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society. Talk and Demonstration by David Usher. The practical demonstration explores what soil is, and how to look after it to get the best results. A handout with useful soil related information provided. Non members welcome with an entry fee of £3.00

Event hosted by PLASTIC FREE AXMINSTER Free cuppa, come and have a browse! Sweet and savoury treats, cleverly hand-crafted gifts (macrame, decoupage, glass, driftwood, jewellery), pre-loved toys, Christmas cakes, cards and much more.

UPLYME CLIMATE COMMUNITY and UPLYME CHURCH are excited to show the film WILDING. Based on Isabella Tree’s best selling book by the same title, WILDING tells the incredible story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing four hundred year old estate. They set to work with their groundbreaking vision, battling entrenched tradition and major forces along the way, daring to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. Ripping down the fences they set the land back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild. It is the beginning of a grand experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe and beyond.

IT’S NOT EASY TO BE GREEN - Info and Practical Tips to Help. An interesting talk by Catherine Causley and Gareth Bourten (Managers, East Devon Council) who will give climate change facts and figures, plus tips on recycling and managing waste -from H20 to food energy-in our everyday life.

A FREE event hosted by Turn Lyme Green - Refreshments available.

6.45 for a 7.00pm start.

The significance of Water in Hinduism and Unitarianism. Join SANDHYA DAVE to take part in a Hindu water puja (worship) where we honour and sing to the sacred waters of this land and Reverend ELIZABETH HARLEY, a Unitarian Minister at Bridport’s Chapel in the Garden, who will be offering a Unitarian water ritual and a short homily drawing on the folklore around our rivers. There will be time for contemplation and participation in an inclusive and warm circle.

Talk by River Lim Action Group and Simon Bethel of Surfers Against Sewage. Join campaigners from the River Liver Action Group to find out more about our ambitious target to clean up the river within three years. Like rivers around the country, sewage and other kinds of pollution are harming the ecology the enjoyment of the river and beaches for local residents and visitors. However we’re on the case and things are already improving.

CANCELLED TODAY.. with regret due to weather.

The Lyme Litter Pickers remain hard at work tackling rubbish and clearing up plastic pollution. Meet at the RNLI shop at the Cobb. Bring a bucket if you can. Gloves and litter pickers provided.

Jenny Bliss is a true multi-instrumentalist. She specialises in baroque and early music and you will soon be able to hear her playing on the soundtrack to the upcoming season of Sandman on Netflix. Ron Phelan is one of the South West’s leading double bassists and improvisors. He has composed music for theatre and contemporary circus. For their performance they will be spontaneously composing a completely new piece inspired by water

Renowned author Dr Jenny Goodman is a practitioner and teacher of Environmental Medicine and is continually seeing the devastating effect of pollution upon people’s health and is excited to be able to use her knowledge of biochemistry to remove these environmental toxins from their bodies, make them better, and teach them how to avoid such contamination in the future. Dr Jenny Goodman will introduce her new book ‘Getting Healthy in Toxic Times: An Ecological Doctor’s Prescription for Healing Your Body and the Planet’ and read from the chapter about water.

Three speakers will describe Water Rituals in Catholicism, Judaism and Islam. Fr JACEK A. KOSTUCH, Priest in charge for Axminister, Lyme Regis and Seaton, will speak about the profound symbolic meanings that water, an essential element of life, holds within the Catholic faith. SARA MOON, is an ordained Kohenet/Hebrew Priestess, earth-based educator and rites of passage guide, and will speak about how Jewish tradition offers many precious ancient water rituals and will explore this Torah of the waters. NEOMI ALAM, the interfaith and communications lead at Exeter Mosque, will introduce the story of the water of Zamzam and discuss ablution before prayers