Wessex Water invites you to come along to Chippenham Museum on Tuesday 7 March to find out more about our investment proposals for 2025-2030. You can learn about future improvements to water and sewerage services and our plans to protect and enhance the environment. Meet our team, ask any questions and have your say on […]
Experience the museums free drop-in activities in a quieter way before the museum is open to the public. Limited to four accompanied children our Quiet Time sessions offer children, who find our busy drop-in sessions uncomfortable, an opportunity to enjoy our activities in a relaxed way. These sessions are free, with booking essential via the […]
Our Wild Escape adventure continues this Easter with free family activities. Discover the amazing story of the colour changing Peppered Moth, inspired by artist Sarah Gillespie’s print of the Peppered Moth in our collection. Create a moth stick puppet and perform your ‘Wild Escape’ story to family and friends. Sessions on Tuesday 4 & Thursday […]
Experience the museums free drop-in activities in a quieter way before the museum is open to the public. Limited to four accompanied children our Quiet Time sessions offer children, who find our busy drop-in sessions uncomfortable, an opportunity to enjoy our activities in a relaxed way. These sessions are free, with booking essential via the […]
Our Wild Escape adventure continues this Easter with free family activities. Discover the amazing story of the colour changing Peppered Moth, inspired by artist Sarah Gillespie’s print of the Peppered Moth in our collection. Create a moth stick puppet and perform your ‘Wild Escape’ story to family and friends. Sessions on Tuesday 4 & Thursday […]
Please join us for a one-day community festival to celebrate our natural world, share information about sustainable living and to create a positive, hopeful vision of a greener future. 11am– 4pm Saturday 15 April 2023 Free entry, activities, performances, talks, and hot and cold drinks. View more event detail on our website including information about […]
Celebrate Earth Day and the national launch of The Wild Escape collective artwork and create mirror and handprint moths and our free creative drop-in. The Wild Escape project led by Art Fund, celebrates UK wildlife and creativity. Over the past few months Chippenham Museum has been encouraging its young visitors to discover the amazing story […]
Join us on Monday, May 8th to observe the growth and progress of our trees. In addition, you can engage with us in a range of activities, such as having a friendly chat, learning about citizen science tasks related to biodiversity, or even lending a hand to help remove any thistles or other invasive plants […]
Individuals, Families, Schools and Groups - a great opportunity to carry out biodiversity surveys at a time to suit you between 20-28th May. Butterfly timed count Butterfly species list Pollinator timed count Ground Dwelling survey - lift one of the 6 concrete slabs and photograph what you see and add to the website All resources […]
Only rain down the drain! Did you know that surface road drains lead directly into your local watercourse? This means that anything other than rain poured down the drain, such as litter, car oils, detergents, weed killers or wastewater can harm river health and its wildlife! Bristol Avon River Trust (BART) are running an exciting […]
Get involved with fun games and activities whilst learning about the water cycle, climate change and river quality. As part of our summer series of free family creative activities we are pleased to have partnered with Wessex Water Community Connectors. Join the Community Connectors’ Education Advisors to find out about where our water comes from […]
Join BART to help protect your local river this Wednesday 14th February. We want to raise awareness of the impact road drains can have on river health. Often these drains lead directly into rivers carrying whatever untreated pollutants are put down them along too. This can be very damaging to river ecosystems. To raise awareness […]
