Our website continues to attract a huge audience – with average daily visits well above 1500 – and we are continually striving to improve and further develop its functionality, always with the ‘virtual visitor’ in mind. Here’s a quick rundown of some areas we’ve been working on recently: Visiting the Coast We have made it…
In May, the Trust – through Coastal Publishing – is publishing two ‘walks books with a difference’ which cover the entire Jurassic Coast in two volumes: ‘Walking the East Jurassic Coast’ and ‘Walking the West Jurassic Coast’ The reason these books are different is that the walks are based on the geology and important scientific…
More local businesses are supporting Jurassic Coast projects by joining the Jurassic Coast Trust’s ‘Investing in the Future’ scheme. This scheme is where the business encourages visitors to make a donation to the Trust and all money raised goes towards projects which help educate people about this World Heritage Site, and help conserve it for…
We wanted to make a movie to promote the Jurassic Coast Quality Business Scheme. Featuring those who are already using the Scheme we reckoned it would explain its purpose and value better than us. With more than 100 businesses engaged there would be some great people and stories out there. Over the three days of filming…
What do you get when you mix a live young people’s drumming performance, a senior dignitary from UNESCO and paper Ichthyosaurs? The fifth Jurassic Coast Annual Seminar, which took place in the evening of March 11th at Highlands End Holiday Park, a Jurassic Coast Quality Business. The event was used this year to launch the…
In February the Creative Coast Group ran an event for existing and potential partners and those interested in engaging with our projects and plans at strategic level. We wanted to share what has been achieved so far and the exciting initiatives in the pipeline and to hear views on the themes and ambitions which will…
St Peters High School in Exeter are wholly embracing their UNESCO Associated School status with innovation and excitement! From September 2009, the Humanities department have decided to give World Heritage Sites and Jurassic Coast a prime spot in their teaching programme. Geography is now being taught along with ICT, Learning to Learn (L2L) & Arabic…
On 19th January nine teachers from eight primary schools, in and around the town of Bridport in Dorset, attended an all-day teacher training workshop focused on learning about the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. The eight schools are part of the Bridport Primary Cluster that exists to support joint learning, development and partnership between members.…
8 secondary schools across the Jurassic Coast have now begun their journey on the DEFRA Coastal Change Pathfinder programme. The project, which is managed by Anjana Ford (Jurassic Coast Education Co-ordinator) and David Weatherly (Adviser for Education for Sustainability at Devon Learning and Development Partnership) will help raise the profile of young people and their…