On June 1 Bridport Museum launched its Crowdfunding campaign with the hope of raising £20,000 towards its big redevelopment project. Local businesses, volunteers and staff have all joined in supplying fun and fabulous rewards for people who have pledged. The Museum was awarded £841,000 in March this year from the Heritage Lottery Fund, but the…
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Erica is one of our Go Jurassic! Rangers, our club for young fans of the Jurassic Coast. Our Rangers receive discounted rates for all Jurassic Coast events. Below is Erica’s account of our boat trip from Poole to Dancing Ledge with City Cruises: On Thursday evening I went for a boat trip along the Jurassic…
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The Friends of the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre has been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. Volunteers have welcomed over 97,000 visitors to the Centre in 2015 and help visitors engage with this stretch of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. There…
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On Tuesday, May 17th thirteen Friends left Charmouth car park and drove in our cars to the Fine Foundation Chesil Beach Centre at Ferrybridge. Here we stopped for a coffee and had time to look around this unique coastal environment in the pleasant sunshine. This visiting centre is leased to Dorset Wildlife Trust, and offers…
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If you’re planning a visit to England’s only natural World Heritage Site this half term, you’ll be looking forward to discovering stunning scenery, beautiful beaches and fantastic fossils. With so much to do, whatever the weather, you and your family will be spoilt for choice. Be sure to visit the newly opened Seaton Jurassic, a…
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Saturdays are often days dedicated to ‘catching up’ – with the housework, emails and all the other things that can get squeezed out of the week – but this week I decided to head down to the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site to take part in a ‘Brunch and Belemnites’ walk I’d seen advertised on…
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The Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team has been awarded the Royal Geographical Society (with IBS – the Institute for British Geographers)’s 2016 Geographical Award. These prestigious medals and awards recognise excellence in geographical research and fieldwork, teaching and public engagement. They are presented annually to individuals who have made outstanding achievements. Whilst it is unusual…
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Dorset County Council, Stone Firms Ltd and Portland Stone Firms Ltd have agreed to settle their dispute over access to extract stone within the Portland Coastal Strip for an undisclosed sum. The matter will not now be heard by the Lands Tribunal in June as previously scheduled. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)…
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A popular stretch of the South West Coast Path has been reopened ahead of the main walking season, with a new route through the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs National Nature Reserve. The Path was closed and diverted inland almost two years ago at the western end of the Undercliffs, after an ongoing landslip resulted in…
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