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Dorset Museum & Art Gallery is delighted to announce that its Thomas Hardy Collection has been awarded Arts Council England (ACE) Designation status. This prestigious recognition acknowledges the collection's outstanding significance and its vital importance to national cultural heritage.
The first-ever county-wide destination management plan has been unveiled to help shape the future of tourism in Dorset. The Destination Management Plan sets out a shared vision and framework to grow Dorset over the next ten years as a welcoming, vibrant, sustainable and year-round destination.
Local people are invited to be part of a major international sporting event as Weymouth and Portland host the 2026 Musto iQFOiL World Championships.
Arts and heritage organisations across Dorset are being invited to apply for funding through the latest round of Dorset Council's Cultural Organisational Revenue Support Fund.
In response to the Government's invitation to express interest in a Mayoral Strategic Authority the leaders of Dorset, BCP, Somerset and Wiltshire Councils, ave issued a joint statement.
History lovers and people curious about Dorset's past are invited behind the scenes at Dorset History Centre this September as part of Heritage Week.
Dorset communities are being given a greater opportunity to shape the decisions, services and support that affect their daily lives through a new programme of Community Conversations involving community organisations.
From Tuesday 21st July until Tuesday 4th August, Durlston Country Park will be hosting an exploration of colour through Shelley Perry’s ‘Colour and Coast’ exhibition, in their Fine Foundation Gallery. Painting with her hands, local artist Shelley creates Dorset coastal scenes alongside colour studies inviting viewers to consider colour as both subject and landscape. The exhibition will be open daily from 10.30am – 4.30pm and is free to enter.
Dorset Council is celebrating today (14 July) after receiving a Green Flag Award at various sites.
The Public Relations sector contributes £409 million to the South West economy and supports 7,294 full-time equivalent jobs across the region, according to a new report launched today by the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA).
One year after 244 turtle doves were released across Devon and Somerset as part of a conservation programme led by Rewilding Coombeshead, birds have now returned to all three release sites after completing their migration to sub-Saharan Africa and back
On July 8, the Royal College of Paramedics, the professional body for paramedics and the ambulance profession in the UK will come together with more than 160 global paramedic associations, higher education institutions and affiliated organisations to highlight the different ways paramedics are advancing practice - from improving patient care and embracing digital technologies, to demonstrating organisational, service and clinical integration.
Westerleigh Group’s crematoria are inviting anyone who is missing a father or father figure, including parents bereaved of a child, to visit to honour their loved ones for Father’s Day.
Thousands of trees and hedgerows planted on a former field in Blandford are already taking root, creating new habitats and supporting wildlife as work continues to construct a modern waste management facility for North Dorset.
More than 100 people from across Dorset businesses, including Dorset Council, came together this week to explore how they can play a bigger role in helping young people prepare for work, as national changes reshape how work experience is delivered in schools.
Two Government announcements have provided a welcome boost to the growing innovation and defence ecosystem in Dorset.
