Berry Head On the Edge is a broad-ranging programme that will conserve the site’s key heritage assets for the future, ensure that visitors have good access to the site and information about it, and involve the local community in its conservation and ongoing management. Under the project we will:
- Relocate the Visitor Centre to a central location and combine it with the Guardhouse Café to encourage more people to access information about the heritage.
- Convert another building into a Learning Centre for use as a base for school and other groups.
- Convert the former Visitor Centre to a Training Base for trainees and volunteers.
- Renew interpretation across the site, making it more accessible for all visitors.
- Remove landscape eyesores and modern paraphernalia.
- Extend the opportunities for people to engage with the site through volunteering, training and events.
- Make the site more accessible for people without a car and promote Berry Head more actively to the local community.
- Clear invasive scrub that is choking the rare plants and extend a conservation grazing scheme across the whole site, using a primitive breed of sheep.
- Repair the Forts and associated buildings, mainly by removing invasive vegetation and stabilising loose stonework.
- Install a bridge across the moat into the Southern Fort to demonstrate how it originally functioned.
- Install a traffic management system to prevent unauthorised vehicles accessing the site, which is one of the main causes of erosion and disturbs the tranquillity of the site.
The bulk of the capital works in this programme will be carried out over a one-year period from Spring 2009, whilst the community engagement and events will be ongoing.
For more information about each of the positions, and to apply, click here
