A civic society for the traditional Isle of Purbeck, first founded in 1852
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 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
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
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
What should be a very interesting talk – all welcome ! Full details in poster – please click on the link below. Poster for Marine Preservation Talk
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.
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
Earlier this year the Society was approached by Purbeck Art Weeks with a request to assist with funding a trip for children from Swanage, St Mary’s, St George’s and Corfe Castle Primary schools who they were taking to visit the Mary Rose Museum on Wednesday April 5th. 84 children were due to go, and the … Read more
The first one is next Friday, 15th September – details here – and full details of the programme are viewable under the Events tab.
This has been CANCELLED – unfortunately the centre have contacted us to say they’ve had to cancel all weekend visits for the time being due to staff shortages, so this event will not now be going ahead. We hope to rearrange this visit when the centre are able to take us, but in the meantime … Read more