Eynsham - Friday 12th June to Sunday 14th June 2026
The Great Big Green Weekend (GBGW) is focusing on Climate and Nature, with a slogan Together for Good. For Climate, this year our priority is on food and energy since those are where ordinary people like us can make the biggest difference. The Nature part is exploring what Eynsham residents can do to take action to protect our planet.
Visit us at our stall to find out more about both GreenTEA and the Peace Oak Association at the Eynsham Surgery’s 50th celebration from 11am to 3pm on Saturday 13th June.
Food
There are several activities based on food:
-A film by Dr Michael Greger ‘How not to Age’ where he advocates a plant-based diet as a way of preventing our likelihood of suffering from illness. We will show the film in the Village Hall at 6.30pm on Friday 12th June, and also during a Zoom meeting on Saturday 13th June at 7pm, both followed by a quiz, a discussion, and the opportunity to join a WhatsApp group to share your ideas.
Many of the cafés/pubs/restaurants in Eynsham are including plant-based food on their menus - watch out for the signs displayed in their windows.
Energy
In September (19th/20th) GreenTEA is holding an Open Homes event where you will be able to visit homes in Eynsham where there have been some improvements made towards making their homes warmer and cheaper to run. Two Energy saving homeowners are giving a taster of the September event by opening their homes for you to visit. Friday 12th 2pm to 4pm, Saturday 13th 2pm to 5pm, and Sunday 14th 10am to 12pm.
There will be children’s activities on the morning of Saturday 13th June from 10am to 12pm in Eynsham Library. Junk modelling on a nature theme. The children will repurpose egg boxes, loo rolls, milk bottle tops, … It sounds like great fun!
Eynsham Repair Café are in action on Saturday 13th June from 2pm to 4pm in the Scout Hall. There will be refreshments available.
NO CAR SUNDAY. We encourage everyone to leave their car at home on Sunday 14th June.
Nature
There are a few activities which cover Nature, and we are also including a showing at 7pm on Sunday 14th June in the Village Hall of the film ‘People’s Emergency Briefing’ which is an eye-opening 50-minute documentary bringing together nine leading UK scientists and experts, with contributions from Chris Packham and Deborah Meaden.
You can join Craft Club activities at the Peace Oak on Friday 12th June from 6.30pm to 9pm You can book these on https://peace-oak.eventcube.io/ (along with other crafts). You can also join in embroidering for free. We are creating panels to remember the Children who have died in Gaza.
We have created an Edible Eynsham Family Trail which you can follow to discover the Community apple trees planted by GreenTEA over 15 years ago. In the Autumn you can pick and enjoy the apples. The trees include Wastie apples which are native to Eynsham. There will be letters on some of the trees which make up a phrase connected to GBGW. The solution will be available on the GreenTEA website on Monday 15th June. To pick up a trail visit our stall at the Eynsham Surgery celebration, the library or on the GreenTEA website eynsham.org.uk/GreenTEA
On Sunday 14th June, there will be tours of the Children’s Food Forest Garden at the Old Witney Road Play Area at 10am and again at 10.30am. The tours will be led by Milly who is enthusiastic about growing our own food in a sustainable way learning from nature’s design.
In addition there are two Nature Recovery Network events taking place during GBGW which deserve a mention. These are Sunday 7th June – Nature Celebration and Meadow Picnic with propagation of rare floodplain meadow wildflowers as part of the Thames Valley Wildflower Meadow Restoration Project and Weds 10th June – Guided Ancient Wildflower Meadow Walk. For more information please email anna.parrinder@nature-recovery-network.org
We will finish off GBGW with a Community Celebration of Eynsham at the Peace Oak Orchard from 2pm on Sunday 14th June. You are invited to bring a picnic and drinks with you. During the afternoon there will be musical entertainment and poetry, and an embroidered banner will be presented to the Peace Oak Association.
TOGETHER FOR GOOD in Eynsham
Friday 12th/Saturday 13th/Sunday 14th June 2026
For more information please email greenteaeynsham@gmail.com