Christchurch's Two Riversmeet Leisure Centre hosts a running festival on Sunday. The 1k fun run starts at 9am and is open to under 16s only at a rate of £2 per entry. The 10k starts at 10am and costs £15 for non-members and £7.50 for members of the leisure centre payable in advance. Entry on the day costs £18. All 10k participants will receive a goody bag, including activity vouchers. All runners in both the 10k and the fun run will receive medals. The 10k starts at the leisure centre and includes running tree-lined roads with views of the sea front and the harbour, Stanpit Marsh, Avon Beach and Mudeford Quay. For more information and to register visit dorsetforyou.gov.uk/2-rivers-meet/christchurch-10k-registration-form.

More than 28 acts will play across four Bournemouth venues on Saturday. The Oxjam Bournemouth Takeover will be coming to Chaplin’s in Christchurch Road, The Anvil in Holdenhurst Road, The Winchester in Poole Hill, and 60 Million Postcards in Exeter Road. Oxjam is an annual charity music festival held in towns and cities across the country to raise money for Oxfam. Multi-venue wristbands are now on sale at bournemouthoxjam.co.uk for £10. Individual venue entry can be purchased on the door for £5. All money raised will go to Oxfam.

Arts by the Sea Festival comes to a close on Saturday with a spectacular performance the Fiers a Cheval. The free ticketed event is now sold out but a host of other free events are taking place including outdoor sound and light installation Travelling Light in Central Gardens from 6.30pm until 11pm and Artist Open Call's Shipping Forecast in the Lower Gardens on Saturday between 7pm and 11pm. On Saturday afternoon at Pavilion Dance, the #Pledge4Plastics team will be giving a talk on what happens to our bottles, pots and tubs when they're recycled, which will be followed by a Guiness World Record attempt to complete the most keep uppies with a plastic bottle in one minute. 

It's the BFX Festival's family weekend at the BIC. Children aged from 5 to 18-years-old can take part in animation and character movement workshops, learn how to draw Raymond Briggs' Snowman and find out how blockbuster films create a VFX sequences using Green Screen. Takes place between 11am and 5pm on Saturday and 10am and 4pm on Sunday.  

Swanage Railway's autumn Steam Gala takes place this weekend. Locomotives Stanier 8F 48624 and Fowler 2-8-0 7F 53809 will be steaming in for the event which runs until Sunday. 

The Christchurch Model Railway Exhibition takes place at Bournemouth School for Girls in Castle Gate Close on October 15 and 16. The event will run from 10am to 5pm on both days featuring around 20 working model railway layouts with admission costing £4 per adult and accompanied children visiting free. For more information, email Petewhitcher@hotmail.com or call 07979 870557.

A jigsaw fayre in aid of the Alpha India Foundation takes place at Verwood Methodist Church on Saturday, October 15. The event runs from 9am to 5pm featuring over 100 completed jigsaws to view and buy, as well as breakfasts, lunches, cakes and light snacks.  Admission is £1 per person including a hot drink and for more information, email Zoeandcad@googlemail.com or call 01202 884622.

A Grade II listed Elizabethan house will be open to the public for one day only on Saturday, October 15. The Mayor of Poole, Cllr Xena Dion, will be cutting the ribbon in Byngley House at 1pm for people to take a look around the property which was built 450 years ago by then-Mayor, Thomas Byngley. It has since been purchased by a couple who have refurbished it to run as a holiday home. It is free to attend the event, which runs from 1pm to 4pm and for more information, email Juliabradley71@hotmail.com or call 07525 265166

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Celebrate autumn on a walkingtalk with Hattie Miles on Saturday. The Language of Colour guided walk starts from Platform 19 café, Queen’s Road, Westbourne, and will take you on a tour of Bournemouth’s wonderful collection of trees. Starts at 11am and costs £6 (£5 over sixties and students). For more details see walkingtalks.wordpress.com