The Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark Annual Report 2025 is now available.
The highlight of this year has been the continuing programme of creating Geopark Visitor Information Points (GVIPs). These are dedicated areas within the existing visitor centres of Geopark Forum members. A new GVIP was established at Severn Valley Country Park in Shropshire, adding to those already in existence at Bewdley Museum and Malvern Hills GeoCentre. Each GVIP tells the story of the Geopark with particular reference to information about local landscape and history. A plan is underway to have a fourth one up and running at Forestry England’s Wyre Forest within the next few months.
Funding for the Geopark was again generously provided by donations from Merlin Energy and Oracle Environmental Experts. We would like to thank them for their continued support.
Throughout the year there were wide ranging programmes of events and activities provided by the Geopark members covering geology, landscape, wildlife, archaeology, heritage, science and art.
The flagship event GeoFest, again ran over June, July and August with plenty of events and activities, all drawn from the summer programmes of members, enabling a very comprehensive GeoFest programme to be delivered.
