About the Trust

Supporting natural, built & cultural heritage for almost 25 years

Causeway Coast & Glens Heritage Trust, an independent charity, has delivered lmost 25 years of protected area management, partnerships and projects designed to support natural, built and cultural heritage.

CCGGT recently outlined out a clear strategy for the the next chapter in its work in our very special local areas:

• Delivering a programme of high-quality protected landscape management
• Inspiring local communities
• Conserving and enhancing our natural built and cultural heritage.

We’ll do this – as always – by bringing together internal subject and project expertise, with external specialists where needed, for the benefit of all.

Causeway Coast & Glens Heritage Trust Mission:

“to raise awareness of the special qualities of the natural, built and cultural heritage of the Causeway Coast & Glens area including the Antrim Coast & Glens, Causeway Coast and Binevenagh Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty; promoting environmental management and sustainable development that aims to conserve and enhance the unique heritage of the area for the benefit of all.”

Our Strategy*:

We Preserve: Protected Landscape Management

For today…
• 3 x AONBs: Antrim Coast and Glens, Binevenagh
and Causeway Coast AONBs
• 1 x WHS: Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast WHS
• Partnerships: In Rathlin and Binevenagh (LPS)

For our tomorrow…
Planning for the future: UNESCO Global Geopark, UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve for Binevenagh.

We Celebrate: Inspiring Local Communities

For today…
• Promotion: Physical and virtual access, events
• Community: Resident and visitor wellbeing
• Engagement: Rural diversification opportunities and volunteering

For our tomorrow…
Future planning: New landscape-scale The National Lottery Heritage Fund application with community engagement/ communnity co-design focus, local areas heritage information.

We Enhance: Supporting Natural, Built and Cultural Heritage

For today…
• Enabling: Sustainable tourism and people-focused cultural activities
• Biodiversity: Including promoting reduced carbon usable and peatland restoration
• Supporting balance: Between landscape protection and battling climate change

For our tomorrow…
Future planning: Enhancing the Économusée Network, Dark Hedges, Limavady Trainer Dome and Magilligan Anti-Aircraft Battery, Magilligan Tree Nursery and being part of an NI-wide
approach to protected landscape management.

(*Correct at the time of update, may be subject to ongoing change)

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Causeway Coast and Glens Heritage Trust is a limited not for profit company with charitable status. While we optimistically secure annual funding for our core activities from central and local government, we do not have statutory status or the continuity and security of resources that tends to accompany that. In this context we are very grateful to all our generous donors.

The sources of donations have been equally varied including donations in lieu of birthday gifts or in memory of loved ones.

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“It seems to me that the natural world is the great source of excitement: the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”