Great Big Green Week

Join us for Great Big Green Week from 7-15 June, the UK's biggest celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature.

We're joining the wider Stratford-upon-Avon community and Net Zero Stratford to celebrate Great Big Green Week from 7 to 16 June 2025.

To mark the UK's biggest celebration of community action to tackle climate change, we're hosting a week of free special events in The Welcome Space, a brand new, free Environmental tour and running sustainable specials at our Rooftop Restaurant and Riverside Café all week.

Alongside our own events, The Welcome Space will be open throughout the week for community groups hosting their Great Big Green Week events, as well as loads of other events across the town.

Discover below how you can get involved and celebrate with us this Great Big Green Week 2025.

GREAT BIG GREEN WEEK EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

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FREE RSC Environmental Tour 

Join us for a free tour of the RSC theatres with a difference - a focus on our environmental actions.

The tour will visit locations around our theatres and highlight the initiatives being put in place by different teams, from improvements to the buildings, to environmental considerations in the shop and cafe, to steps to improve the environmental impact of what goes on and comes off stage. 

Tuesday 10 June
10.15am

Free, ticket required

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Green Dining Offers

During Great Big Green Week, we'll be serving up a selection of dishes with an environmental focus. Come along to the Rooftop Restaurant and Riverside Café to try out a delicious selection of specially created drinks and menus including:

  • Shakespeare's Sustainable Tudor-themed specials, available with the pre-theatre menu
  • Sustainable starter, available with the pre-theatre menu
  • 'Garden to Glass' cocktail, which uses homegrown herbs to infuse and garnish
  • Zero-waste cocktail, a Black Russian/Espresso Martini hybrid, made by infusing spirits with coffee grounds
  • Great Big Green Week Carrot Cake make using 'wonky' veg and leftover carrot trimmings, available in the Riverside Café 

These offers will run from 7 to 15 June

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EVENTS IN THE WELCOME SPACE

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Net Zero Stratford:

Carbon Literacy Training

Learn about climate change and what is being done locally to create a low-carbon culture.

Attend both sessions (9 June and 16 June) to qualify for your certificate from the Carbon Literacy Project.

Monday 9 and Monday 16 June
10.30am–2.30pm

Free, ticket required

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RSC Warm Hub:

Craftivism Special

Join us in the RSC’s Warm Hub in The Welcome Space, for a morning of craftivism with Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and discover how we can look after our waterways and wildlife.

Tuesday 10 June
10.30am – 12.30pm

Free, drop-in (no booking required)

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Demonstration of Textile Crafts

The Stratford-upon-Avon Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers invite you to discover the beauty of spinning, weaving, and braiding with live demonstrations, celebrating eco-conscious techniques and sustainable creative expression.

Wednesday 11 June
11am–1.30pm

Free, drop-in (no booking required)

Lucy Parrott Writing:

Creative Writing x Water Workshop

Get your creativity flowing as we guide you through a series of water-inspired writing activities, exploring Shakespeare's seven ages of man as they relate to the seven ages of water.

This workshop is in collaboration with River Hope, a local grassroots movement using creativity, ceremony and action to foster love and stewardship for our waterways and their biodiversity.

Friday 13 June
11am-1pm

Free, ticket required

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RUNNING ALL WEEK

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River Hope Photography and Film Installation

Throughout Great Big Green Week, visit us in The Welcome Space to watch a film created by River Hope photographers, providing a visual language for the river, its wildlife and nature.

River Hope is a new grassroots movement based in Stratford-on-Avon District. It involves individuals and community groups co-creating positive activities and events in, on, around and about our local water bodies.

Monday 9–Friday 13 June, open from 2.30pm
Saturday 14–Sunday 15 June, open from 10am

Meet the Photographers

Saturday 14 June
11am–12.30pm

Free, drop-in (no booking required)

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There are lots of other events taking place around Stratford-upon-Avon and surrounding areas during Great Big Green Week, including this special event with Elizabeth Freestone, talking about our 2023 production of The Tempest.

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Exploring Sustainable Theatre-making 

The Guild Chapel, Chapel Street

Join Elizabeth Freestone, Director of the RSC's 2023 production of The Tempest, to discuss what goes into creating a sustainable theatre production. Presented by Norah's Ark Community Play (Stratford Town Trust).

Wednesday 11 June
6.30–8pm

Free, ticket required

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