PRESS RELEASE 4 June 2019 Lady Ashcombe of Sudeley Castle will be hosting the launch and formal opening ceremony of a new eight mile disabled access route around Winchcombe, at Sudeley Castle this month. The new route will be suitable...
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Gloucestershire’s young people dig into rural life
L_R: Team programme participants: Fergus, Martyna, Natasha, Jack, Sam, Morgan, and Luis, with Programme Leader, Archie Morton. Cotswolds Conservation Board is celebrating the conclusion of a pilot rural skills training scheme in partnership with Young Gloucestershire and The Princes Trust....
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Volunteer with us
Help to care for the Cotswolds Volunteering with us is a rewarding way of giving back and caring for the landscape we all love. We have over 400 volunteer wardens, and that's the main way to volunteer with us,...
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Cotswolds Stepping Stones Programme
Are you a level 1 dry-stone waller? Are you looking to branch out your skills into the commercial world of walling? If so, the stepping stones project is your chance! Newly qualified LANTRA Level 1 dry-stone wallers now have...
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Billhooks at the ready for the Cotswolds Hedgelaying Championship this weekend
Hedgelayers from across the country will battle it out against each other in the new look Cotswolds Hedgelaying Championship this Saturday at Daylesford Farm near Kingham in Gloucestershire. The annual event organised by the Cotswolds Conservation Board will see competitors...
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New festival to showcase the Cotswolds living landscape in its golden anniversary year
The Cotswolds Conservation Board is proud to be holding its first ever Living Landscape Festival, marking the 50th anniversary of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). National Trust’s stunning 17th-century Lodge Park in the Cotswold...
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New Cotswold festival to showcase the living landscape in its golden anniversary year
The 17th-century Lodge Park in the Cotswold country estate of Sherborne in Gloucestershire will play host to the first Cotswolds Living Landscape Festival on Sunday 18 September 2016 organised by the Cotswolds Conservation Board in partnership with National Trust. The...
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Cotswolds Stepping Stones Programme
Are you a level 1 dry-stone waller? Are you looking to branch out your skills into the commercial world of walling? If so, the stepping stones project is your chance! From March 2016, newly qualified level 1 dry-stone wallers...
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New events programme launches and Blacksmiths Forge opens at the Cotswolds Discovery Centre
This spring/summer the Cotswolds Discovery Centre at the Old Prison in Northleach will be firing up with new events, talks and activities for the whole family to enjoy as well as the opening up of the Blacksmiths Forge. New events...
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Annabel’s Wall
On the 18th & 19th May 2015 Annabel attended the Cotswolds Conservation Board's dry-stone walling course for beginners taking place at Tetbury. Annabel had her own walling project in mind when booking the course and after a thoroughly enjoyable two...
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