Sensory Trust projects, past and present

Current projects

• Clay Country Local Action Project. Empowering disengaged groups to take an active role in local community initiatives.
• Connecting with nature. Sensory Trust was commissioned by Natural England to work with four national nature reserves in the south west of England to improve experience for disabled people.
• Creative Spaces. Creating dementia-friendly communities and designs.
• Dame Hannahs. We've been working on wayfinding strategy and signage designs to help visitors find their way around this fantastic events, training and social venue at Seale Hayne.
• Eden bakery. Great new style creates a more community feel to eating lunch; we've been helping make sure this works for all visitors.
• Eden humid tropics biome. Adding sensory layers to the visitor centre and integrating inclusive design in the plans for the new walkway.
• Eden Sessions. From hearing balloons to accessible bars, how we've worked with Eden Project to make music accessible to everyone.
• Let Nature Feed Your Senses. Connecting disengaged groups with nature through food and farming.
• Social Sustainability Toolkit. Integrating an inclusive approach to the planning, design and construction of new capital build projects.

Completed projects

• Accessible information. Development of new approaches to creating information that is attractive and reaches the widest audience.
• Ask. A UK-Japan collaboration focused on nature-based inclusive children's play.
• Audience development plan, Kent. Production of an Audience Development Plan and Access Plan helped Mote Park in Kent secure a successful HLF bid.
• Awakening Senses. An event with Eden Project as part of the Community Service Volunteers (CSV) 'Making a Difference Day'.
• Bodmin Community Hospital, dementia-friendly design. With Dirtworks, planning and design of a new family room, semi-outdoor and garden spaces.
• Braille menu trials at Eden. Production of menus in Braille tested with visually impaired people at Eden Project.
• By All Reasonable Means. Production of the national guidance publication for Countryside Agency.
• Capital Woodlands. Improving local community engagement and accessibility for London's ancient woodlands.
• Clay futures. Sensory Trust was a partner of the Clay Futures Project, providing opportunities for communities in mid-Cornwall to have a say in decisions about the development of their local area
• Climate Change and Civil Society. With Eden Project, helping non-environmental civil society groups engage with climate change and resource scarcity.
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Identifying ways of improving access to the war grave sites and associated information.
• Connect. Three year project supported by Lloyds TSB Foundation, connecting older disabled people and people with learning disabilities with their local public spaces as a way of building lasting links between them and their wider communities.
• Crich National Tramway Museum. Commissioned by Renaissance East Midlands to review and advise on access and visitor experience at the Crich Tramway Village in Derbyshire.
• Discover Eden. Accessible visitor information developed for the new education centre, the Core, at the Eden Project.
• Easy Access to Historic Landscapes. Sensory Trust was commissioned by English Heritage to create their new national guidance publication.
• Evaluation toolbox. Tools developed to assess quality of experience
• Food Tastes Better Outdoors. Enabling people with learning disabilities to prepare and package healthy food for picnics and discover suitable places to eat outdoors.
• Forest toolkit. Development of a new toolkit for the Forestry Commission to help make forest recreation sites accessible and engaging for everyone.
• Hannahs at Seale Hayne. Designing new visitor maps and information to help visitors find their way around this fantastic site.
• The Garden at the Eden Project. Organising pre-design consultation to inform the design of a new outdoor garden space at the Eden Project, and post-design consultation to guage its success.
• Garden-based community engagement and staff training at Lanhydrock. Continuing program of furthering disabled people's access and enjoyment of the outdoor environment and public green space.
• Golitha Falls. Commissioned by Natural England to undertake visitor experience and access reviews and community consultation to identify priorities for access improvements.
• I'DGO Project, Member of this collaborative research programme, focused on improving accessibility of the built environment for older people.
• Kent County Council. Development of bespoke site evaluation toolkit to review site accessibility, and delivery of training for site managers.
• The Lost Gardens of Heligan. Commissioned to undertake site reviews to identify access improvements.
• Making Connections: a guide to accessible greenspace. Publication based on UK wide research and highlighting ways to improve the accessibility of public spaces.
• National Trust training days. Sensory Trust trained Community Learning and Volunteering Managers, rangers and wardens from the National Trust in site access review and diversity awareness.
• New Ground. Partnership project supported by Carnegie UK Trust to support community development in peripheral regions
• Restoring the Cornish Heathlands. with Landlife, giving local communities the chance to get directly involved in restoring the china clay spoil tips in Cornwall.
• Sheffield City Council, access strategies. The Trust worked with Sheffield Parks Woodlands and Countryside (PWC) to help them develop a system for prioritiseing access improvements to their 700 greenspace sites.
• Sissinghurst Garden, framework for engagement. Advising on quality of experience and visitor diversity to help the National Trust widen its visitor appeal at Sissinghurst in Kent.
• Fiery Spirits. Member of a network supported by Carnegie UK Trust, bringing our experience of social inclusion and sustainability to a community of practice dedicated to creating resilient rural communities in the UK and Ireland.
• South Hams access workshops. Bringing together a rich mix of stakeholders to identify priorities for improving this part of the Dorset coast.
• Stourhead seasonal trail project for the National Trust
• Therapeutic Garden Design at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust
• Westonbirt Arboretum. Helping the national Arboretum widen its audience and improve accessibility and experience for all visitors.

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