Hard on the heels of the gold award the West Bay Discovery Centre collected at South-west Tourism Excellence Awards 2021/22, the Centre has now been chosen to go forward to the Visit England national tourism award finals. The Centre stands to win gold, silver or bronze in Ethical, Responsible & Read more…
Each pop up exhibition takes a huge amount of staff and volunteer time to research and produce. Community involvement and expertise is essential, we work closely with local experts to get things right and learn so much along the way! When the exhibition is finished we recycle the materials that Read more…
On Thursday night a few of us headed down to Sandy Park (home of Exeter Chiefs) for the South West Tourism Awards. We were up for the Ethical, Responsible & Sustainable Business Award category and we were amazed when we won GOLD!! It is a really impressive achievement considering we were Read more…
Recent news headlines have brought prehistoric discoveries back into the spotlight. In a new documentary, Sir David Attenborough reveals the excavation of a Mammoth Graveyard uncovered in a quarry near Swindon. Closer to home, local television recently reported that bones from several species of Mammoth and Woolly Rhinoceros have been Read more…
The finalists of this year’s South West Tourism Tourism Awards have been announced and West Bay Discovery Centre is amongst the finalists in the ‘ Ethical, Sustainable and Responsible and Sustainable Tourism.’ This guarantees the Centre either a gold, silver, bronze award at the finals on the Thursday 7th April Read more…
WOW we are over the moon to announce that in the Dorset Tourism Awards 2021/22 we have just WON… . BRONZE in Small Visitor Attraction of the Year GOLD in Ethical, Responsible & Sustainable Business GOLD in Visitor Information Service of the Year Thanks to our amazing team at West Read more…
The finalists of this year’s Dorset Tourism Awards have been announced and West Bay Discovery Centre is amongst the finalists in no less than three award categories. This guarantees the Centre either a gold, silver, bronze award at the finals on the 10th February 2022. The categories are Best Small Read more…
West Bay’s iconic golden East Cliffs are chiefly made up of Bridport Sands- rocks that formed from layers of sand in the shallow tropical Jurassic seas around 175 million years ago. Each metre of cliff took 20,000 years to form- and at about 43 metres high that means that when Read more…
Recently, discovering this image we were prompted to get out the West Bay Regatta Programmes donated to us by John Hawkins. We were intrigued to find out what a Cigar and Umbrella Swimming Race involved! That then led us to doing further research about the Regatta. The first mention we Read more…
The area just outside the ropes at the entrance to the Discovery Centre may look untidy to some, but to our wildlife it is a haven and a welcome place to retreat away from the surrounding car parks and roads. The growing conditions are challenging with sandy soil that quickly Read more…