Sandra Brown from the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Dorset branch, talks about their efforts to create a National Park in East Devon and Dorset, which will include Purbeck. What impact might there be on housing, business, agriculture or tourism ? Free to members, non members welcome, £2 entrance.

Entertainment and refreshments - Tattie Bogle, a folk duo, will be performing. Free to members, non members welcome, £3 entrance. tattie-bogle Poster attached: 9th-december-2016-event

Young smallholder and local food producer Ben Young talks about the trials and tribulations of running his small producers business Nursery Bridge Smallholding and Gourmet Goats. Free to members, non members welcome, £2 entrance.

Local mosaic artist Robert Field has produced a database of artists who have painted in the Purbeck area over the past 200 years - a list now approaching 500. The talk will highlight how the local landscape has inspired many. Free to members, non members welcome, £2 entrance.

Local author and historian Islay Cooper will talk about her recently written book about Dunshay Manor, set in the heart of Purbeck. It's history dates back to medieval stone quarrying and the Norman conquest, and there are connections to art, medicine and aircraft development. Free to members, non members welcome, £2 entrance.

There will be a formal AGM, where the Agenda papers will be presented and the new committee will be formed. The AGM will be followed by a break for refreshments and then a talk by Peter Bowyer of the Pan Purbeck Action Committee. He will discuss it's role in local housing issues and the partial ... Read more

Tomorrow's visit to Ourganics has been postponed - it is mostly an outdoor event and the weather forecast is pretty grim ! It will be rearranged - if you need further information, please contact Karen on 01929 425049. Thank you and apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. A visit to 'Ourganics' has been arranged ... Read more

The Etches Collection at Kimmeridge, guided tour of the museum with Steve Etches, lunch at Clavell's and then visit to the bay

The Ancient Technology Centre - 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 ... Read more

A guided walk of the flower meadows south of Swanage with a specialist from the Bournemouth Society of Natural Sciences, followed by refreshments in the flower garden of a quarryman's cottage. This event will either be held on the 8th or possibly 15th August.