Guildford's Great Big Green Week
24th September - 2nd October 2022

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Join us at Zero Carbon Guildford to celebrate the second annual Great Big Green Week!
Great Big Green Week is back! This year there's something for everyone, whether you want to cut your energy use, protect Surrey's countryside and rivers, or clean up your neighbourhood!
Take the opportunity to engage with your local community to tackle climate change in a week of events, talks and workshops, with partners including The Friary, Fully Charged e-bike shop and the University of Surrey.
The Great Big Green Week is a Climate Coalition initiative billed as ‘the largest event for climate & nature ever seen in the UK’. ZERO will be theming the week around our key objectives: Active travel on car Free Day, Environment, Energy, Climate Communication, Change the System and Waste & Circular Economy.
Guildford community groups, organisations, and businesses will be showcasing the work being done locally on food security, environmental protection, and mitigation & adaptation to the climate and ecological crisis. We all have a role to play in protecting the future of our borough and our planet - whether that be through residents coming together in community growing projects, businesses reducing their waste, or findin g collaborative ways to make Guildford a leader in finding local solutions to global challenges.
Around 20 events will take place across Guildford's Great Big Green Week, hosted by different organisations, in multiple locations across our beautiful borough. Some of these events will be all-day carnival style events, some will be workshops and interactive demonstrations, some will be talks and seminars, and some will actively encourage people to get out into nature or highlight the alternatives to our current ways of life.
What's On During Guildford's GBGW?
- Sun 01 JunShalford, precise location on signing upLearn what it's like living with a heat pump from someone who has one
- Multiple Dates
- Wed 04 JunZERO
- Sun 08 JunGuildfordCome and see us with our Community Fridge and enter our Race Sustainably Across the World Competition!
- Sun 08 JunGuildfordJoin us for Explore & Restore Looking for a fun way to spend time with friends and family? Join us for group bike rides around Guildford’s scenic cycle routes! Whether you're dusting off your bike or already a keen rider.
- Wed 11 JunZEROA friendly creative writing session, exploring different forms of exchange
- Thu 12 JunZEROHow can we help understand the system and make decisions with our personal finances to support a more sustainable future?
- Sun 22 JunGuildfordJoin us for Explore & Restore Looking for a fun way to spend time with friends and family? Join us for group bike rides around Guildford’s scenic cycle routes! Whether you're dusting off your bike or already a keen rider.
- Sun 06 JulGuildfordJoin us for Explore & Restore Looking for a fun way to spend time with friends and family? Join us for group bike rides around Guildford’s scenic cycle routes! Whether you're dusting off your bike or already a keen rider.
- Wed 09 JulLocation is TBDOn Wednesday 9th July 2025, thousands of people from every corner of the UK will come to Westminster to tell our MPs: this is a moment for leadership that protects what matters most — our health, our nature, our communities, our climate, and our future.
- Sun 20 JulGuildfordJoin us for Explore & Restore Looking for a fun way to spend time with friends and family? Join us for group bike rides around Guildford’s scenic cycle routes! Whether you're dusting off your bike or already a keen rider.
- Sat 24 MayGuildfordJoin ZERO and Rosamund Community Garden for a Plant Sale at the Rotunda!
- Sat 17 MayOn the Green by G LiveChildren, bring your grown ups to the streets and cycle paths of Guildford town centre.
- Sold Out
- Sold OutSat 03 MayZEROJoin behaviour change specialist Suz Rogers for an insight into human behaviour and how to drive change for a secure future
- Wed 30 AprNorth Camp Methodist ChurchJoin Blackwater Valley FoE for a Powerful Evening of Discovery and Action
- Sold OutSat 26 AprGuildfordJoin us for Explore & Restore Looking for a fun way to spend time with friends and family? Join us for group bike rides around Guildford’s scenic cycle routes! Whether you're dusting off your bike or already a keen rider.
- Sat 26 AprZERO