The Harehope Quarry Project offers environmental education, field studies, rural skills training, community development, and community arts based from a limestone quarry in the North Pennines.

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Halloween Fun!: 27th Oct 2012
4.00pm – 6.00pm. Come and help us celebrate the end of summer and the onset of the long dark nights of winter. A mixture of Halloween, Celtic New Year and a bonfire thrown in! Adults £4.00, children £2.50, families £8.00. Drop-in.
Star gazing: 10th Nov 2012
6.00pm – 8.00pm. Come stargazing with Durham Astronomical Society. Telescopes will be used to view Jupiter, as it will be very well placed, as well as looking onto deep sky objects like Orion’s nebula, Pleiades and the Andromeda galaxy. There will be a presentation if the weather is not good for observing, showing some images taken by members of Durham Astronomical Society. Adults £4.00, children £2.50, families £8.00. Drop-in.

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For further information and to make an event booking please contact:

Harehope Quarry Project Ltd,
Harehope Quarry,
Frosterley,
Bishop Auckland,
Co. Durham,
DL13 2SG

Tel: 01388 528633 or 01388 528599

Email Us for Event Enquiries & Bookings

Latest News

Harehope becomes a LAND Demonstration site: 15th Nov 2011
The Harehope Quarry Project has successfully become a LAND learning centre. The learning centres are permaculture projects, who show, explain and describe to volunteers, visitors and an interested public, how the principles and ethics of permaculture are applied to their project. As a LAND learning centre Harehope Quarry will form part of an England-wide co-operative network.
Trees for Harehope: 15th Nov 2011
The Harehope Quarry Project has received a grant from Durham County Council for 80 trees. The trees will be planted during National Tree week - 26 November - 4 December 2011.
Frosterlety goes plastic-free!: 22nd Nov 2010
Traders in Frosterley, with the help of the ‘Working for a Future in Frosterley’ project, are introducing a scheme to reduce the use of plastic bags in the village. The scheme will be launched on 27 November 2010. Cotton bags will be available in the Frosterley branch of the Penrith Co-operative Society and at Gardiner’s Country Store on a ‘borrow and return’ basis and Turtle Bags at The Village Chip Bar. Frosterley Community School are designing their own bags that will be for sale at £2, with all proceeds going to the school. These will be available in early December.