Great Big Green Week 2025
The Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature.
Taking action with this year's theme, 'Let's swap together for good', shows our support for a safer, greener, fairer future.
Rugby Borough Council is taking part in the The Great Big Green Week, showing support for local initiatives to tackle climate change and protect our natural environment.
We are partnering with local community groups and businesses to host events for residents, upskilling your gardening skills, teaching you to repair goods, looking after allotments and joining in our bird walks. Many of these groups already take action to combat climate change and aim to inspire visitors to join Rugby's journey towards net zero.
We have something for all ages and would highly recommend you bring your kids along to the Play Rangers and Rugby Art Gallery and Museum events.
See all of the available events in the table just below:
Our activities
Date |
Activity |
Time and location |
What's happening |
Sign-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 7 June | Community Climate Fair |
10:30am - 2:30pm Caldecott Park, Evreux Way, Rugby, CV21 2DT |
Caldecott Park will have a collection of stalls with community groups taking climate action and supporting the local environment. A chance for to learn about activities throughout the borough and explore volunteering opportunities. | FREE |
| Eco Hub: Repair Café |
10am - 1pm Rugby Eco Hub, Betts Hall (top of Bath Street), Rugby, CV21 3QE |
Have you got broken electricals, an old toy, a broken bike or even ripped textiles? Learn all about fixing your pre-loved goods at Rugby Eco Hub. A great way to save your money and reduce waste. | FREE | |
| Sunday 8 June | Newbold Allotments Open Day |
10am - 12pm 11 Egerton Close, Rugby, CV21 1AY |
Join the Allotment open day in Newbold, learn all about nurturing and maintaining an allotment. Meet with the committee and join them for a hands-on demonstration of growing sunflowers. | FREE |
| Monday 9 June | Play Rangers Go Green |
4pm - 5:30pm Benn ward: Millennium Green Park |
Get ready for an action filled time with our Play Rangers. They’re bringing Big Green Week activities to Rugby, including repurposing and reusing, animal habitats, rainwater funnels and collectors, creating recycled paper, welly wangling and welly boot planting and team building games | FREE |
| Tuesday 10 June | Play Rangers Go Green |
3:30pm - 5pm Brownsover: Criss-Cross Park |
Get ready for an action filled time with our Play Rangers. They’re bringing Big Green Week activities to Rugby, including repurposing and reusing, animal habitats, rainwater funnels and collectors, creating recycled paper, welly wangling and welly boot planting and team building games | FREE |
| Rugby Art Gallery and Museum: Mini Explorers |
10am - 11am Percival Guildhouse Gardens (outside of the Art Gallery and Museum Gallery) |
Join us for a fun-filled session where young ones can explore the outdoors through messy art creations. Using natural materials and their imagination, children will create art from nature. Suitable for children aged£2.50 per child, children must be accompanied by an adult. |
www.ragm.co.uk/family | |
| Rugby Art Gallery and Museum: Mini Makers session |
1:30pm - 2:30pm Percival Guildhouse Gardens (outside of the Art Gallery and Museum Gallery) |
Join us for a fun-filled session where young ones can explore the outdoors through messy art creations. Using natural materials and their imagination, children will create art from nature. Both activities are suitable for ages 2-5 years, £2.50 per child, children must be accompanied by an adult and pre-booked |
www.ragm.co.uk/family | |
| Thursday 12 June | Play Rangers Go Green |
5:30pm - 7pm Dunchurch Community Library |
Get ready for an action filled time with our Play Rangers. They’re bringing Big Green Week activities to Rugby, including repurposing and reusing, animal habitats, rainwater funnels and collectors, creating recycled paper, welly wangling and welly boot planting and team building games | FREE |
| Friday 13 June | Play Rangers Go Green |
4pm - 5:30pm New Bilton Recreation Ground |
Get ready for an action filled time with our Play Rangers. They’re bringing Big Green Week activities to Rugby, including repurposing and reusing, animal habitats, rainwater funnels and collectors, creating recycled paper, welly wangling and welly boot planting and team building games | FREE |
| Saturday 14 June | Eco Hub: Growing tasty foods in small spaces |
10:30am - 1:30pm Rugby Eco Hub, Betts Hall (top of Bath Street), Rugby, CV21 3QE |
Join Eco Hub and see many types of food-filled planters - from window and balcony boxes, to raised beds for patios. Learn all about using these to grow vegetables and herbs, with training sessions every hour. | FREE |
| Garden Organic: Community Champion training session |
10am - 12noon The Hive, Hill Street Youth and Community Centre |
Community Champions are volunteers who encourage people in their local community to support biodiversity and the environment through organic growing. Sharing skills and inspiring others to connect with the natural environment around us. | FREE, Sign up needed for a spot | |
| Garden Organic: Grow your own fresh herbs |
12:30pm - 2pm The Hive, Hill Street Youth and Community Centre |
If you want to find out more about growing your own fresh herbs, then this workshop is for you! We'll talk about where to start, what you need to know and how to look after your plants as they grow. There will even be some herbs for you to take home to get started. | FREE, Sign up needed for a spot | |
| Sunday 15 June | Dunsmore Living Landscape: Morning bird walk |
7am - 8:30am Diamond Jubilee Walk, Rugby |
Take a look at Dunsmore’s beautiful landscapes and wildlife with an early morning bird walk. You’ll be accompanied by naturalist Ed Drewitt, followed by hot drinks and pastries. | Sign up, £5.00 to book your spot |
| Clifton Road Allotment Open day |
11am - 3pm Entrances are 50m beyond 108 Clifton Road CV21 3RB and from the lane behind Butlin Road football ground. |
Visit Clifton Road Allotments to see how they manage 80 very diverse plots for food, nature and wellbeing. Join a guided tour. Children’s activities. Refreshments and plants for sale. Come and enjoy their hidden haven of wholesome food production, biodiversity and healthy recreation. | FREE |
Stallholders for The Great Big Green Week:
- Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
- Act On Energy
- Garden Organic
- The Eco Hub
- RBC Waste and Recycling
- Friends of the Earth Rugby
- Reyousable
- Beespoke birdhouse