An exciting processional festival shedding light on ancient English celebrations will take place in March 2011, inspired by the cultural heritage of the Jurassic Coast. On the night of 26 March when the clocks go forward, Poole quay will be transformed from 6.30pm by a spectacular contemporary procession created by local Bournemouth & Poole schools…
The Jurassic Coast is getting ready to celebrate the 2012 Olympic Games in a big way! In Spring 2011, we will be launching our exciting new schools programme called “The Big Jurassic Classroom” which will be part of the Jurassic Coast Earth Festival 2012. We want every school in Dorset and East Devon to take…
The first winners of the new awards were announced at the recent Jurassic Coast Annual Seminar – a fitting occasion to recognise those who have made such a big contribution to the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage SIte. The Jurassic Coast Award was open to anyone who had shown an outstanding dedication to the conservation and enhancement…
In July, I travelled to Japan courtesy of the British Council. I had been asked to talk about the Jurassic Coast Earth Festival to a group of specially selected promising graduates. The 47 delegates from 22 countries across Europe and Asia were all people who had been part of the Asia Europe Foundation summer University The alumni…
The start of September saw the launch of Stony Bones, an exciting new community education project in Swanage led by local artists Antonia Phillips and Annie Campbell. The aim is to work with teachers and schoolchildren over the coming year to learn about the Jurassic Coast through a range of visits, creative workshops and classroom…
The Coastal Change Pathfinder project team are now in the process or organising and running various meetings with the six communities along the Jurassic Coast. These meetings will focus around a written ‘scenario’. These scenarios are mock newspaper articles set to a date in the future (between the next 20 – 50 years) and…
The Jurassic Coast was pleased (and relieved!) to hand over the second Annual World Heritage Education conference to New Lanark World Heritage Site which was held 29 – 30 October this year. New Lanark is a spectacular 18th century industrial mill site set on the banks of the River Clyde where Robert Owen (the…
Throughout Dorset abandoned quarries, cuttings and rock faces offer valued glimpses of our rich geological heritage. Many of them are given conservation status and include National Nature Reserves, Sites of Special Scientific Interest and Regionally Important Geological Sites. Geologists from the Dorset Important Geological Sites group (DIGS) work to conserve and protect the geological heritage of…
The Rock Around the Coast series of guided walks has had another successful year in 2010. For the first time, we had someone who came on every single walk and over fourteen weeks we walked 95 miles from one end of the Jurassic coast to the other. A big thank you to Dr John Larkin from…