The Chase & Chalke Projects

Our projects offer opportunities for free training and include a broad range of activities which encourage individuals, communities and new audiences to help conserve, enhance, understand and learn about our unique landscape.

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Natural Landscape

Greater Grazing

Improving biodiversity at Martin Down National Nature Reserve.

Celebrating our dark skies and our designation as a Dark Sky Reserve.

Woodland Training Skills programme – volunteers laying a hedge as part of the Chase & Chalke Wonderful Woodlands project

Bringing woodlands back into active management.

Small copper butterfly on a cowslip, Cranborne Chase Natural Landscape, Chase & Chalke Nurturing Nature project.

Improving biodiversity across the area.

Protecting and restoring the river Ebble.

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Historic Landscape

Bringing the Landscape to Life

The Time Travellers of Cranborne Chase app explores the extraordinary people and places of the area.

Teachers undergoing heritage training, as part of the Chase & Chalke Heritage Training for Schools project.

Equipping teachers to understand and teach the local heritage.

A child's hand with a trowel to move sand to find bones in a dig box, part of the Chase & Chalke Champions of the Past project.

Exploring the remarkable archaeology of the Chase & Chalke area.

The Curious Dorset Cursus

Reflecting the ceremonial and ritual use of the Neolithic earthwork.

Roman sword attack, part of the Chase & Chalke Roman Rally project

Re-enacting Roman life in the Cranborne Chase.

Connect to the landscape with the ChalkEscape Walking Festival.

Poetry box on Cranborne Chase office gate, part of the Chase & Chalke Words in the Landscape project

Bringing together writers, poets, storytellers and readers.

Musicians engaging with the landscape through songs, old and new.

History and notable characters of the Chase brought to life through performance storytelling.

Inspiring works reflective of the landscape, history and culture of the area.

Batik silk flag at Martin Down, part of the Chase & Chalke Celebration in Silk project.

Communities working with artists to create silk flags.

A Grant scheme to support local heritage for communities.

Oral history training, with film camera, part of the Chase & Chalke Memories Captured project

An oral history project capturing the voices of local people.

Exploring and improving the area’s cycle footpaths and creating new tramper ways.

Volunteer With Us

Volunteers are a key part of the Chase & Chalke Landscape Partnership. Our projects and work require the input of our fantastic volunteers to achieve success. To find out more about volunteering with us, click here. To sign up now via the Chase & Chalke Volunteer Hub, click the link below:

Natural Landscape

Greater Grazing

Starry, Starry Nights

Wonderful Woodlands

Nurturing Nature

A Crystal Clear Ebble

Historic Landscape

Bringing the Landscape to Life

Heritage Schools Cluster

Champions of the Past

Cultural Landscape

The Curious Dorset Cursus

Roman Rally Living History

ChalkEscape Walking Festival

Words in the Landscape

Voices in the Landscape

Characters of the Chase

Artists’ Residencies

Celebration in Silk

Communities Caring for Heritage

Memories Captured

Ancient Ways

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