Winter talks programme begins on Friday 13th September

Our winter talks programme begins with what promises to be a very interesting talk by Lilian Ladle on the archaeology of the ancient societies of Worth Matravers – details on our Events page at this link: 13th September talk

Dorset National Park and the Glover review

Dorset National Park has made its submission to the Glover Review, set up by the government to investigate and report on National Parks. Information on the National Parks review can be viewed here: Government information Dorset National Park submission can be viewed here: Dorset National Park

The Purbeck Society joins Civic Voice

The Purbeck Society has joined Civic Voice, the national organisation for local civic societies. This is an important development enabling the Purbeck Society to network with other local civic societies and to raise the profile of local heritage in and beyond Purbeck. Joining Civic Voice is a step that the Purbeck Society is taking in … Read more

Dorset National Park update

The latest newsletter from this group can be viewed here: Dorset National Park Newsletter July 2018 For more information on this, please visit their website: Dorset National Park

Events calendar updated

Details of our events for the rest of this year have now been finalised, so please take a look at our Events section. We hope you will agree that there are lots of interesting things planned. Our next event is our AGM on 13th April, and it would be good to see as many of … Read more

Friday 12th January

What should be a very interesting talk – all welcome ! Full details in poster – please click on the link below. Poster for Marine Preservation Talk

Have you any ideas ?

The committee have recently agreed and published the winter programme of events, and we are currently considering what events we should run in the summer. What events would you like us to arrange – we’re very open to suggestions ! Thank you in advance.

Dorset Campaign to Protect Rural England AGM

You may be interested in the Dorset CPRE Branch AGM which is open to all – Saturday, 18th November 2017 at Cerne Abbas Village Hall, starting at 11 am. Guest speaker is Crispin Truman, new CEO of CPRE, who joined on 4th September. Dorset CPRE website