We have Exciting News to share!!! We’ve been COMMENDED in the Dorset Tourism Awards 2024 in the Best Small Visitor Attraction category. The competition was tough and we wish good luck to Sculpture by the Lakes, Museum of East Dorset and HighCliffe Castle who are all finalists in this category!This Read more…
The West Bay Discovery Centre’s volunteers have been awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service for 2024, one of only two voluntary organisations in Dorset this year. This is the highest award a local voluntary group can receive in the UK and is equivalent to an MBE. The King’s Award Read more…
We’re delighted to have been selected as a Travellers’ Choice Award Winner again for 2024. The award is given to establishments that have consistently received great reviews over the past 12 months and we are so very grateful to our visitors for their kind words and recommendations and placing us Read more…
We have been amazed and delighted to have received so many awards of the past few months! To the outsider it might feel as if all we do is put in for awards – which isn’t the case we are too busy welcoming, running the centre and planning new events Read more…
We recently attended the spring party of the 2021/22 Dorset Tourism Awards enjoyed at Sculpture by the Lakes. We were expecting to pick up three awards which were awarded back in February via zoom. Three additional awards were awarded on the night and to our surprise and delight we were Read more…
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…
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…
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…