BIOSPHERE FESTIVAL
28th June - 6th July 2025
What is the
Biosphere Festival?
A celebration of our UNESCO Biosphere Reserve status, with events for everyone, all over the island!
Our local community and nature festival is back for its second year. In 2024 we had over 50 events run by a variety of organisations and individuals, mostly free or low cost: walks, talks, art, fashion, storytelling, music, films, nature tours, citizen science and more. Let’s make Biosphere Festival 2025 even bigger and better together.
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What's happening at the Biosphere Festival?
That depends on you! The festival relies on our island community to join together and put on events inspired by our Biosphere.
If you or your organisation, business or local group want to run something for the Biosphere Festival, here’s what you need to do:
Sign up to our newsletter to get organiser updates with information, deadlines and ideas
Take part in one of our upcoming briefings for organisers
Get in touch with questions or let us know what you are planning at hello@iwbiosphere.org
Download an information pack with guidance and ideas (note this is for 2024 and will be updated soon) or see further tips below.
We also need volunteers to help organise and assist during the festival. Please email us if you are interested at hello@iwbiosphere.org.
How to run a Biosphere Festival event
As well as a central venue where the Biosphere Festival team will run their own talks and workshops, we need lots of other organisations to take part by running their own events, big or small, under the Biosphere Festival banner:
It could be something you already have planned that you can adapt to be Biosphere related, or something entirely new.
It could be as small as a themed window display or promoting sustainable local products, to running your own storytelling event, wildlife face-painting, nature walk or talk, beach clean, fundraising evening of themed music or something entirely different. Whatever fits with your organisational interests and activities and with some or all of the nine Biosphere principles.
We will support and promote your events as part of the wider festival, we can help find venues for those who don't have one, volunteers to assist, or advice on event logistics.
Let's show the full range of what our Island Biosphere has to offer, make new connections, support each other and celebrate this very special place.
Tips for Biosphere events
We have published an evaluation from our first pilot year in 2024, which may help inspire you. We also held a planning event that generated lots of ideas.
Talk to others in your community about what they have planned, don't clash, join forces! Check in with us to find out what others are doing.
Use our templates for designs (info pack coming soon). You can use these as is or modify them for your own event.
Find something that fits with what you already do to make it easier, it can be as big or as small as you can manage.
Have a look at the nine Biosphere Principles for inspiration.
Don't worry about getting it "wrong"! This is all about drawing on our existing knowledge and learning.
Enjoy being part of something big that together we can grow into something even bigger!
Other ways to get involved
Interested in supporting the event financially? Get in touch to find out about sponsorship opportunities.
Are you a school? We’d love more schools to get involved. Email us!
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Proud to be partnering with the Wildheart Animal Sanctuary and their FOCAS festival. FOCAS stands for “Focus on Conservation and Science” and aims to make science and conservation more accessible to all children, bringing both to life in a fun and imaginative way. On Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th June 2025 as part of the festival they will be giving exclusive access to the Sanctuary for a very low price! More information coming soon