NEYGT Projects
 

It makes it all worthwhile!

On 14th October, your Geology Trust took a group of children from Rosedale Community Primary School on a fossil walk with their teachers and parents, our local Cllr Jane Mortimer and Robert Goodwill MP.
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A Bay Full of Heritage

A Bay Full of Heritage

Things are happening fast for our project in Robin Hood's Bay and there's plenty for you to enjoy. Geonaut Events
These are offered to our local schools, an opportunity to enjoy our local landscape as an open-air classroom more...

Rosedale Show

Vales and Dales Project in Rosedale

Our Vales & Dales project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, concluded in October 2010 and yet it lives on through our links with the Rosedale community and the two trail guides and earth heritage booklet we produced.

In the Geology Trust Events Programme for 2011, Rosedale features through: more...

Robin Hoods Bay

North East Yorkshire Geology Trust gets a Bay full of Heritage!

A project by the Geology Trust, which involves the community of Robin Hood's Bay and surrounding villages and worth nearly £53,000, has been awarded £49,800 by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund. "It's brilliant news for the Trust to be involved with our own community, more...

Recruiting for Geoconservation

Recruiting for Geoconservation

The start of a new year is a great opportunity for your Geology Trust to launch a recruitment effort. We are looking for support for our Local Geodiversity Action Plan (LGAP). An LGAP is a document, similar to a Biodiversity Action Plan, underpinning all work relating to geodiversity within a local region. more...

   
Aux Armes, Geoconservationist!

Aux Armes, Geoconservationist!

A local geological Site of Special Scientific Interest has seen some very active geoconservation by NE Yorkshire Geology Trust members in the last few weeks. Massive brambles, nettles, hawthorn bushes, fallen trees and piles of unnamed weeds awaited us and that’s just the vegetation! more...

   
Walk & Talk

Walk and talk with the Geology Trust!

After an incredibly busy summer of fossil and beach treasure walks, energetic Sunday guided walks, open days and the Rosedale Show, North East Yorkshire Geology Trust is about to settle indoors with talks and project work but will take you on five last guided walks in October. more...

   
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North East Yorkshire Geology Trust champions the Yorkshire Deal and secures £ 26,000 additional funding!

The funding secured is an extension to the project "Making the most of Geodiversity in Aggregate Quarries", which the Geology Trust won last year. £14,000 of the project extension is funded by Natural England through Defra's Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. more...

       
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Rosedale – a wonderful place with a turbulent past

Rosedale features highly in the priorities of NE Yorkshire Geology Trust this summer as we are completing our Vales & Dales project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Trail guides and an Earth Heritage booklet will be launched at the Rosedale Show on 21st August. It’s a great event and we are planning to make even more of an impression this year. Watch this space! more...

       
Hovingham

NE YORKSHIRE GEOLOGY TRUST, QUARRIES & YORKSHIRE DEALS

Mike Windle, Director of NE Yorkshire Geology Trust coined the term “Yorkshire Deal” a few years ago, to exemplify the pragmatic, inclusive and business-like attitude, he and the Geology Trust apply to geoconservation and everything they undertake.

“At the heart of a Yorkshire deal, are the strong relationships the Geology Trust forges with landowners, quarry operators, education providers, planning authorities and institutions, the understanding of all interested parties on a particular site, more...

       
On the piste in Rosedale

Geology Trust puts its sites on the map!

NE Yorkshire Geology Trust has just completed successfully two very important projects funded by Natural England through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. The first one, a survey of Regionally Important Geological Sites (RIGS) in Rosedale, more...

       
Heritage Lottery Fund

A pioneering project between NE Yorkshire Geology Trust and the community of Rosedale

NE Yorkshire Geology Trust has secured funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a unique project which will not only take a new look at the nationally important geological sites in Rosedale but will also explore the famous industrial heritage of the Dale. The project will deliver two new trail guides in our series Secrets in the Landscape, a booklet describing the Earth heritage of Rosedale, more...

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