Lyme Regis Fossil Festival Average wage for

Lyme Regis Fossil Festival • 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 Lyme Regis Development Trust 1

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 Lyme Regis Development Trust 2

St. Michael's Extension The Hub Youth Club St. Michael's Business Centre The Malt House Education Space Community consultation & planning Children's Centre Learning Centre The Library Jurassic Coast Studies Centre Lyme Regis Development Trust Fossil Festival Affordable Housing Digital Assets Lyme Regis Development Trust 3

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 Lyme Regis Development Trust 4

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 Lyme Regis Development Trust 5

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 Lyme Regis Development Trust 6

• 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. earthfestival 2012. org Lyme Regis Development Trust 7

• Collaborative Curiosity • Digital Learning Landscape • Onboard – a flight with Jurassic Coast Airlines • Augmented Reality • Digital Products - Apps • Digitising Geological Maps • Online Jurassic Coast Studies Centre www. youtube. com/watch? v=6 b. XHXilp. DDU Lyme Regis Development Trust 8