The Jurassic Coast Trust are excited to announce that its range of Official Books about the coast are now set to make a bigger difference to safeguarding England’s only natural World Heritage Site. After working with the local publisher Coastal Publishing for many years, the Trust have recently taken over publishing these books, including the…
Jurassic Coast artist Colin Bentley is working on a three-year art project in collaboration with the Jurassic Coast Trust. Following the success of Colin’s first Jurassic Coast art exhibition in Sidmouth, Colin is turning to Dorset for 2018’s exhibition. It’s been quite a while since I’ve written a blog and I’ve got plenty of progress to report. The…
School and Youth Residential Programmes in Dorset Is Dorset the real ‘Jurassic Park’? Well it is renowned for being one of the richest heritage sites for prehistoric remains where you could find your very own piece of dinosaur, or even discover a new species! The Jurassic Coast is England’s first natural UNESCO World Heritage Site and ranks…
Raffiella Chapman is a young actress and palaeontology enthusiast who has appeared in The Theory of Everything and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. In this edition of Raffi’s Rocks, Raffi talks about her recent visit with her family to Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast. Lyme Regis Museum is situated in the heart of the…
Have you ever imagined a life-drawing class with a dinosaur for a model? How about carving Jurassic creations from willow, or out of hard Portland limestone? Well, imagine no longer, as Dippy on Tour: A Natural History Adventure takes to the Dorset Centre for the Creative Arts this Saturday, 21 April. Organised by the Jurassic…
If you pick up a copy of the current Dorset Magazine, you will see that our very own Programme Manager, Sam Scriven has shared thrilling tales of Dorset dinosaurs and reveals what this coastline looked like millions of years ago with the help of paleoartist Dr Mark Witton. Stretching 95 miles along the Dorset and…
Whilst basking in this glorious weather (ok, looking at it from the office window…), we are continuing our ‘get out and explore theme’; so when I asked Guy, JCT programme Manager, where he would like to be today, he immediately replied the beautiful village of Abbotsbury, near Weymouth. I think I may have been once…
It’s Friday, it’s nearly the end of the Easter Holidays and quite predictably, next weeks weather looks beautiful! Here at JCT HQ, we have been discussing the weekend and really needed some inspiration! Like many with children or grandchildren on their Easter break, for the past 2 weeks we have been searching for things to…
Should you find yourself at a loose end this Saturday (or any Saturday in April), why not bring the family along to one of our guided walks to Keates Quarry? Our Jurassic Coast Ambassadors will ignite your imagination with stories of when the dinosaurs roamed our coast. Leaving from the Square and Compass pub at…