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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
The section of coast between Bowleaze Cove and Redcliff Point in Preston near Weymouth is currently active, with movement of around a metre since Friday 8 April. This is a well-known area for landslips due to its geology of permeable limestone over impermeable clay. The movement has been going on for several years but this…
The Jurassic Coast Trust, in association with Yeovil College, gave Independent Living Skills students the opportunity to create replica fossils using Plaster of Paris on Thursday 25th February. Special fossil moulds were supplied by Guy Kerr, Jurassic Coast Community Coordinator. This inspired Lecturer Valerie Rowland to make an inclusive and hands on activity for her…
People in Dorset and East Devon have the chance to have their say on how the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site is looked after in the future. The management of the WHS is currently overseen and funded by a partnership including Dorset County Council, Devon County Council and the charity, the Jurassic Coast Trust. Its…