We’ve just produced a brand new leaflet that is particularly user friendly, to help people travel around the Jurassic Coast using public transport, footpaths, cycle routes and boats. Colour coded bus routes are featured on the map with service information including frequencies, listed on a corresponding table. There is also a quick reference ‘Which bus do I…
We are on our way to planning our next Creative Coast Forum event in partnership with the University of Exeter: Arts, Science and Environment. It will be held on September 10th at the University of Exeter, and will pose the question ‘how can artists and scientists work together to improve the management of naturally designated…
Ten young ambassadors for the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site joined Olympic torch runner Lisa Devine at Durdle Door on Friday 13th July for a very special photoshoot. The children from Lulworth and Winfrith First School in Dorset were very excited and felt extremely special to be chosen for such an opportunity. Aged between seven…
We have been rehearsing the music for Coastal Voices with the four groups covering the whole of the coast, and launched the project with the first performance for the opening of the Twin Sails Bridge in Poole on March 9th. The weather was grey, but the the 200+ voices were seriously colourful and it was…
As we near the final straight for summer 2012, Creative Coast work is gathering pace! We held our second Creative Coast Forum on March 16th at the Portland Heights Hotel, which was very well attended and received. The event focused on how the cultural sector can work better with tourism organisations to encourage a ‘complete…
After 10 years of being a World Heritage Site, and during the Olympic Year the spectacular Dorset and East Devon Coast is being celebrated with help from communities, artists and scientists from near and far. At the heart of this is the Jurassic Coast Earth Festival running between May and September and part of the…
For those of you who have driven across the Ferrybridge to Portland and wondered what on earth they are doing to the Chesil Beach Centre, the waiting is nearly over. For nearly ten years, a wide range of organisations and individuals have been working behind the scenes to enlarge and revamp the small, but very…
The Jurassic Coast Team and Trust are delighted to launch a new way of working with Businesses along the World Heritage Site; the Jurassic Coast Business Partner scheme. Jurassic Coast Business Partners are businesses who support the vision and values of the Jurassic Coast, England’s unique and only natural World Heritage Site. You do not…
Responding to popular demand, you can now get your Jurassic Coast official publications online from the new Jurassic Coast Trust online store. The Site currently stocks the official Trust publications, including the Official Guide, the Monsters Sticker Book and the newly published guide to the Geology of Purbeck. As more Jurassic Coast Official merchandise is…