Arundel is not just a town. Arundel is our river, our fields, our woodlands, our hedgerows, our wildlife, our birds, our pockets of wild overgrown greenery, our muddy puddles, our bugs and beetles.
The list can go on, it’s so much more than what meets our eye. There is brilliant stuff happening on your doorstep every day to help nurture the natural environment around you and it’s time to get involved.
The Great Big Green Week is about us coming together, learning and encouraging everyone to do their bit in helping nature cope with and hopefully recover from the effects of climate change. From 7- 15 June there will be an array of wonderful events for everyone. From a River Guardian Workshop and Community Picnic to Earth Listening and a Dawn Chorus Walk. So many chances to enjoy and immerse yourself in an activity that celebrates nature, while also teaching and encouraging us to change for the better, for Arundel and for the planet. We would love you to join us for this Arundel first, so check out the programme or scroll down and book onto an event or two, or three!
Events List
Please find all events, information and booking links below. We are very happy to have a lot of free events available due to volunteered time and support however please note that some events have a small fee attached due to the nature of the event.
If you have any questions regarding any particular event please contact the organisation or venue directly.
The Wombles of Arundel Community Litter Pick
9am - 12pm
Meeting Point: To Be Confirmed
Join in with 'The Wombles of Arundel' for our next Community Litter Pick.
Come along and help clear up our streets. We welcome you for as much or as little of the morning as you are able to spare.
All welcome. All equipment provided. Limited supply of Wombles-branded equipment for you to try out, including some very special smaller litter pickers, hoops and hi-vis for our younger Eco-Warriors - first-come, first served! We will be running a competition for the most unusual item found with a small prize for the winner.
This is a non-ticketed event.
Price: Free
SATURDAY 7TH
Open Allotment Day 1
1pm - 4pm
Priory Road Allotments
Curious about what Arundel’s Allotments? This is your chance to see what they are about...
Allotments can be for everyone. This is a chance to visit two of Arundel’s Allotment sites and see a variety of different methodologies used by different growers.
Learn about growing without chemicals, how we can augment bio-diversity in our gardens and what you can get growing right here on your doorstep. Exchange on how these spaces can be used for the community at large by creating spaces to learn, teach and share.
For the green fingered grower to the vegetable loving novice, this is an opportunity for everyone to experience these productive and beautiful spaces.
This is a non-ticketed event.
Price: Free
SATURDAY 7TH
Great Big Green Get-Together
12pm - 4pm
Herington's Field & The Community Orchard
A community day and plastic-free picnic to launch the first ever ‘Great Big Green Week‘ in Arundel
Bring friends, family and neighbours for a plastic-free picnic in Herington’s Field.
Local community stalls, music, face-painting, community weaving, and a range of other activities for all ages with a sustainable theme.
Special guest Madame Cholet of The Wombles will be joining us.
Price: Free
SUNDAY 8TH
Herb Walk & Wild Crafting
12:30pm - 2:00pm
The Community Orchard
(in association with Great Big Green Get-Together)
From Earth to Art: Communicating and Crafting with our Native Wild Plants.
Join Verity for a herb walk through the orchard and surrounding meadows, exploring the healing properties of the wild plants growing all around us.
You'll learn how to safely identify seasonal flowers and herbs, discover their medicinal and nutritional uses, and take home a collection of simple, nourishing recipe ideas.
The session culminates in a relaxed, creative activity: pressing flowers and painting with plants, allowing nature's colours and textures to guide your own piece of living artwork to take home.
Open to all ages, guided by curiosity, creativity, and a shared love of the natural world. Spaces are limited to 12, so please register in advance. A contribution of £10 covers all materials, and you’re invited to bring your own baskets for foraging.
Instagram: @veritymegan
This is a ticketed event, please follow link below to purcahse your tickets.
Price: £10
SUNDAY 8TH
Sustainable Community Weaving
12pm - 4pm
Herington's Field
(in association with Great Big Green Get-Together)
Using recycled materials to create a Community Weaving installation.
A drop-in event as part of Get Together, to create something beautiful out of discarded items.
All can get involved.
Price: Free
SUNDAY 8TH
Dawn Chorus Walk
5:30am - 7:30am
Arundel Wetland Centre
Experience the delights of the morning bird song chorus on this guided walk around the reserve at sunrise.
Led by our learning team, you will learn how to identify birds from their unique songs, including wetland specialists such as reed warblers and Cetti’s warblers, to dawn chorus superstars such as song thrushes, blackcaps and goldcrests.
The chorus is best early in the morning as birds seek to attract potential mates and defend their territories whilst the light levels are low, before spending the day feeding. With the arrival of migratory birds joining our resident songbirds in the spring, the dawn chorus reaches its crescendo at this time of year – making it one of nature’s greatest spectacles!
Doors open at 5:20am, late comers will not be admitted. Adult only event.
Price: £20
MONDAY 9TH
Sip and Swap Coffee Morning
9:30am - 11:30am
The Spa Club
Reaching out to the Spa Club family, this local salon will be hosting a coffee morning for clients, friends and family to share their growing stories altogether.
We will encourage the team, friends, kids and clients to grow their own fruit, veg and herbs throughout May and June and then bring them along to our coffee morning. We can learn about how we grew them and what we’ve grown!
We will also be installing a bug house at our allotment to encourage bees and insect, planting 'Help Yourself Herbs' outside the salon, for everyone to take home and use.
This is a non-ticketed event.
Price: Free
MONDAY 9TH
Balancing Your Garden
7pm - 8:30pm
Arundel Museum
How to garden with nature in mind...
Dr. Millam is the Study Programme Leader for RHS courses at Brinsbury College. He will explain the concept of a balanced garden and why it is so important. He will highlight simple ways in which to achieve a better balance, as well as how to avoid practices that inadvertently upset the natural balance. He will provide advice on restoring and maintaining natural balances in a variety of ways without using chemical pesticides.
Certified in Permaculture Design, Claude Paradis will facilitate the Question & Answer session before outlining how Greening Arundel is working to support nature recovery through helping to restore balance in Arundel's green spaces.
This is a free ticketed event, please follow the link below to reserve your seat.
Price: Free
TUESDAY 10TH
Moth Morning
10am - 11:30am
Arundel Wetland Centre
Be there as the Reserve Team unpack the moth traps for close up encounters with a myriad of moth species on the monthly survey. Join Reserve Manager Suzi Lanaway to help ID the catch.
A must for photographers and moth fans!
£15 per person - does not include admission to the wetland centre. Admission ticket is required, which is free for WWT members.
Price: £15
WEDNESDAY 11TH
Four Unavoidable Truths
7pm - 8:30pm
Arundel Town Hall
How to prepare for the coming storm as the polycrisis looms bigger.
Tony Whitbread, President of Sussex Wildlife Trust will be joined by academic and writer, Paul Hannam for a lively, challenging and visionary discussion. Join us to prepare for life beyond collapse, with complete disruption to our way of life inevitable, we’ll explore how to not only survive but thrive though our global polycrisis of climate, ecological, political, social and economic upheaval.
Adults only. This is a free ticketed event, please follow the link below to reserve your seat.
Price: Free
WEDNESDAY 11TH
Urban Wildlife Garden Visit
4:30pm - 7:00pm
Carleton House, 15 Maltravers Street
Demonstration of how to integrate support for wildlife into garden design and management.
Curious about what you can do in your garden?
Visit a garden in the centre of Arundel that has been designed for modern outdoor living but also carefully planned to encourage wildlife. It features a modern patio with outdoor eating but also extensive additions to encourage wildlife including a pond, bug hotels, composting and other ideas designed to help our pollinators and urban wildlife.
Free Ticketed event, with bookable 30 minute time slots. Please follow the link below to book a ticket.
Price: Free
THURSDAY 12TH
A Greener Wardrobe
6pm
The Swan Hotel
How to have a greener wardrobe with Willow and Eve.
A workshop / talk followed by a shopping event with Arundel's own preloved clothing store, Willow and Eve.
"It take over 10,000 litres of water to make one pair of jeans."
"In the UK the estimated amount of clothing thrown in landfill every year is over 300,000 tonnes."
Encouraging and educating people on why to buy preloved clothing. The team at Willow and Eve put the planet first when it comes to fashion. Promoting slow fashion and changing our buying habits to think preloved first, this is about enjoying clothes but in a way that doesn't cost the earth.
This is a non-ticketed event, first 30 attendees will receive a £5 voucher to spend in store.
Price: Free
THURSDAY 12TH
Understanding and harnessing the regenerative agriculture movement
7pm - 8pm
Juniper Café
What is regenerative agriculture and can it help build a better food system?
A talk from Paul Martin, Pasture For Life Certified Butcher and owner of Garlic Wood Farm Butchery.
The term ‘regenerative agriculture’ is everywhere but what does it mean? Is it simply ‘green-wash’, or can it be a genuine and positive movement towards building an ethical food system?
How can engaging with this movement allow us to use our collective retail power to support nature recovery and help build a robust, viable, and ethical local food network?
This is a free ticketed event, please follow the link below to reserve your seat.
Price: Free
THURSDAY 12TH
Art and Agriculture: Productive Land
12th - 16th June
South Stoke Barn
The exhibition in 2025, present by the Zimmer Stewart Gallery will take place from 12 to 16 June 2025 at South Stoke Barn, South Stoke, near Arundel, BN18 9PF:
The exhibition will be open everyday from 11am-6pm
The Private View is on Thursday 12 June, 6-8pm
A Talk on Art and Agriculture: Productive Land led by Ryan Haydon with James Stewart and Nick Bodimeade is on Friday13 June in support of The Sussex Snowdrop Trust. Tickets cost £25 and includes champagne and delicious canapés provided by Ren's Kitchen.
"Productive Land is the brief given to the 23 artists invited to submit works for this unique exhibition. This can be interpreted by each artist in their own way; for example, productive in this sense could include woodland, field margins, headland, etc. There are several themes running through them: Memories of people or places; the interplay of human and natural forces; highlighting biodiversity/sustainability; education or other community/charitable purposes as well as showing agricultrual land use. It is clear that as well as appreciating the works for what they are, we can also delve deeper into the processes and meanings the artist has imbued into them. All the artists taking part have a connection to Sussex." Zimmer Stewart Website, 2025
Artists contributing to the exhbition:
Emily Ball, Matt Bodimeade, Nick Bodimeade, Pippa Blake, Tom Farthing, John Harmer, Emma Hurst, Frances Knight, Andrew Milne, Karin Moorhouse, Paul Newland, Lucinda Oestreicher, Piers Ottey, Deborah Petch, Andrew Roberts, Tiffany Robinson, Melanie Rose, Tania Rutland, Kate Sherman, Catharine Somerville, Phil Tyler, Andy Waite
Price: Free (except for Friday event)
THURSDAY 12TH
CineVic presents:
Six Inches Of Soil
7:30pm
The Victoria Institute
Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains.
The inspiring story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, benefit our health and provide for local communities.
This is a ticketed event, please follow the link below to purchase your ticket.
Price: £9
FRIDAY 13TH
Bird Bath Soundscape & Nature Tour
9:30am
St Nicholas Church
Created by meditator and broadcaster Alistair Appleton (Mindsprings) and musician and ecoacoustician Alice Eldridge (University of Sussex), Bird Bath fills beautiful spaces with local bird song and invites anyone and everyone to pause, rest and bathe in the magic of nature’s song.
To create the soundscape, Alice spent time during spring recording local bird song from dawn to dusk across a range of different habitats within The Living Coast UNESCO Biosphere and surrounding area.
About the artists:
Alistair Appleton is a meditator, therapist and broadcaster. Trained mainly in the Buddhist tradition, has studied in the Thai Forest tradition at Chithurst Monastery in, draws inspiration from the shamanic practices of the Amazonian Indians in Brazil and is currently studying with the contemporary Vajrayana teacher, Mingyur Rinpoche. Since 2004, Alistair has led numerous courses on mindfulness, compassion training, self-soothing and the creation of joy and practices as a psychotherapist in Brighton, UK.
Alice Eldridge is a musician and researcher with an interest in how sound organises systems. Her research integrates ideas and methods from music, computing and ecology to advance theory and methods in the emerging science of ecoacoustics, as well as to create experiential soundscapes and ecosystemic music. She is currently a Professor of Sonic Systems at the University of Sussex where she is joint director of the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab, co-director of the Experimental Music Technology Lab and a fellow of the Sussex Sustainability Research. Alice is interested in how different ways of listening can help support nature recovery and regenerate socio-ecological systems for planetary health.
This is a non-ticketed event.
Price: Free
SATURDAY 14TH
ARC Saturdays: Great Big Green Week Edition
9:30am
Meet at Tarrant St Espresso
Bring something green, bring a smile and come and run 5k with ARC!
Arundel Run Club (ARC) is a local run club encouraging community engagement, and a social hub for people to exercise and socialise. For the Great Big Green Week, we’ll all be dressing in green and going on a social 5k run with coffee to finish.
All abilities welcome!
Starting/ Finishing point: Tarrant St Espresso, 17 Tarrant Street, Arundel, BN18 9DG
This is a non-ticketed event.
Price: Free
SATURDAY 14TH
Your River Arun Needs You!
2pm - 3:30pm
Arundel Museum
Come along and see what it takes to be a River Guardian...
Learn from experts about the issues affecting the River Arun and how we can all help address them locally. Let's work together to make a positive impact on our community and our beautiful river. Don't miss out on this opportunity to give back and connect with like-minded individuals.
Keir Smith from the Western Sussex Rivers Trust will explain why the River Arun is struggling and how it needs urgent protection. He will call upon concerned individuals to volunteer as River Guardians to help restore this vital habitat. He will be joined by our South Downs Ranger, Sophie Brown and local vet, Lisa Daniels.
This is a free ticketed event, please follow the link below to book your spot.
Website: www.wsrt.org.uk
Instagram: @westernsussexrivers
Price: Free
SATURDAY 14TH
Sunset Yoga
Saturday 14th June @ 7pm - 9pm
Arundel Park
Celebrate the height of Summer with a special evening of movement, breath, and connection under the open sky.
Join Verity for a unique evening practice in tranquil natural surroundings, moving in harmony with the setting sun and rising moon.
We'll move through a slow, somatic flow designed to ground you in the moment and unwind from the day—set against a backdrop of golden light and fresh evening air. This practice invites you to attune to Nature’s rhythms, blending mindful movement with spacious stillness as the day's warmth softens into night.
Whether you're new to Yoga or a seasoned practitioner, this friendly, welcoming session has something for everyone—to inspire, challenge, and soothe.
Please bring your own mat and healthy snacks to share after class. Come ready to soak up the best of the season with June's golden hour.
Limited Spaces. This is a ticketed event with a donation appreciated, please follow link below to book your spot.
Specific location given upon booking.
Price: Donation £5 / £10
SATURDAY 14TH
Open Allotment Day 2
1pm - 4pm
Fitzalan Road Allotments
Curious about what Arundel’s Allotments are about? This is your chance to see what they are all about...
Allotments can be for everyone. This is a chance to visit two of Arundel’s Allotment sites and see a variety of different methodologies used by different growers.
Learn about growing without chemicals, how we can augment bio-diversity in our gardens and what you can get growing right here on your doorstep. Exchange on how these spaces can be used for the community at large by creating spaces to learn, teach and share.
For the green fingered grower to the vegetable loving novice, this is an opportunity for everyone to experience these productive and beautiful spaces.
This is a non-ticketed event.
Price: Free
SUNDAY 15TH
Cosmetics and Skincare Swap and Save
Organic Cosmetics Company
During Arundel's Great Big Green Week we are offering a swap and save.
Bring along any non-organic item of skincare, bodycare or makeup that you use and we will offer a 25% discount for any like for like item from our store that is organic and sustainable. We can also offer advise on why it is important to choose organic.
Instagram: organic_cosmetics_co
Find us at no. 31 Tarrant Street, Arundel, BN18 9DG
Price: n/a
7TH - 15TH
2025 Main Sponsor
A huge thank you to The Swan Hotel, the Green Week's main sponsor and for their continued support of Greening Arundel.
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