Lyme Regis Fossil Festival

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•Average wage for those in full time employment 17% below national average

•42% of population over 65 years of age

•House prices 40% above the national average

•Heavy economic dependence on traditional seaside holiday offer

•Loss of hotel accommodation

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Lyme Regis Development Trust Community Enterprise

• Lyme Regis Development Trust is a community-based organisation that works to stimulate the economic, social and environmental well-being for all in Lyme Regis and its surrounding areas

• Community Consultation & Planning

• Capacity Building,

• Community Anchor,

• Service Delivery

• Catalyst for regeneration

• www.lrdt.co.uk

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The Malt House Education Space

St.Michael'sExtension

Jurassic Coast Studies Centre

The HubYouth Club Children's

Centre

Fossil Festival

Community consultation & planning

St.Michael's Business Centre

Affordable Housing

The Library

Learning Centre

Digital Assets

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Jurassic Coast Studies Centre• Internationally Significant Educational Destination

• Jurassic Coast Studies Centre – Expeditionary Base . Residential facility offering educational programmes,. Outreach platform for Natural History Museum, other science institutes and universities

• Campus Approach Linking Jurassic Coast Studies Centre To Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre, Lyme Regis Museum, Visitor Centres..

• Joint venture between Lyme Regis Development Trust, Jurassic Coast World Heritage Steering Group, The Natural History Museum and The Field Studies Council

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Lyme Regis Fossil Festival - 2005 - 2012•Eclectic mix of arts and sciences

•Effective Partnership

•Proof of Concept Project

•Market Tests Offer

•Builds Strategic Relationships

•Demonstrates to funders that we are not sitting on our hands

•Markets offer internationally

•Exemplar in public engagement in science

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The Jurassic Coast Earth Festival 2012 is a celebration of England’s only natural World Heritage Site – 95 miles of breathtaking coastline between Exmouth and Swanage. Between May and September you can take part in a range of amazing events that fuse science with art to give us a new way of seeing where we fit into the history of time

www.fossilfestival.com

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•Pliosaur•Rock around the Coast•Jurassic Coast Activity Day•Collaborative Curiosity•Stone carving - Burngate Stone Centre•Natural Seaton•Durlston Castle•Exmouth Earth Festival •Portland Sculpture Quarry•MEMO

www.earthfestival2012.org

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•Collaborative Curiosity

•Digital Learning Landscape

•Onboard – a flight with Jurassic Coast Airlines

•Augmented Reality

•Digital Products - Apps

•Digitising Geological Maps

•Online Jurassic Coast Studies Centrewww.youtube.com/watch?v=6bXHXilpDDU