Heritage Open Days 2023
It's that time of year again - your chance to explore some of our cultural heritage for free. With hundreds of properties around the country open during the ten day festival it's a good [...]
Volunteering Drop in Day – Gayle Mill
GAYLE MILL - VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT DAY 22nd JULY 2023 - 10am to 4pm Whatever your skill we need you at the Mill! Whether you are into: Heritage/history - Woodcraft - Engineering - Hydro-power Tour Guiding - Grounds Maintenance [...]
SPAB Mills Open Weekend – 11th and 12th May 2024
This year's National Mills Weekend will take place on 11th and 12th May 2024. With the theme of "Enjoy your mill - get involved" this is the perfect opportunity for you to visit and [...]
Team Warwick Bridge in Action
What are you up to this festive weekend? Why not get out and about to a local market, support homegrown artisan producers in a market town near you? Team Warwick Bridge are manning stalls [...]
Trust’s patron visits landmark project
Cultura Trust’s Patron, HRH The Duke of Gloucester, has visited Hylton Castle in Sunderland, accompanied by the Trust’s President, Lord Beith, and the Lord Lieutenant of Tyne and Wear, Ms Lucy Winskell. This well-known [...]
Meet A Millwright – Pick up a Skill
This week Cultura Trust begins hosting a trainee millwright, working at historic mills across Cumbria and the Yorkshire Dales. Millwrights are an endangered species: there are none in Britain north of Nottinghamshire. A shortage [...]
Community photogrammetry training
Next Tuesday, 25th July, we are offering you the chance to be involved in creating a 3d image of Senhouse Roman Museum using photogrammetry techniques. The day starts at 10am and all you need [...]
A Meadow in the making at Camp Farm, Maryport
At the end of September, a group of enthusiastic Year 7 students and staff from Netherhall School joined staff and volunteers from Cumbria Wildlife Trust and Cultura Trust to plant wildflower plugs at [...]
1900 years of the Romans – milefortlets
As part of the Hadrian’s Wall 1900 celebrations, Cultura Trust’s Camp Farm, in collaboration with Senhouse Roman Museum, invited Pupils from Netherhall School, Maryport to hone their archaeology skills and find out more about [...]
A Solway Saturnalia
Saturnalia, held in mid-December, is an ancient Roman pagan festival honouring the agricultural god Saturn. Because of when the holiday occurred - near the winter solstice - Saturnalia celebrations are the source of many [...]