Trust hits landmark figure as 20,000 pupils learn history

A TRUST set up to promote the history of Yorkshire’s most popular seaside resort has reached a landmark total after working with 20,000 pupils since its launch three years ago.

Members of the Scarborough Museums Trust, which is responsible for the Rotunda Museum, the Art Gallery and Scarborough Collections, are celebrating after welcoming record numbers of school pupils since it was first formed in 2008.

Last year alone, 10,000 children took part in sessions with the trust’s learning team to access objects that explain Scarborough’s heritage and the area’s natural history, as well as exploring the gallery’s art collections.

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Trustee and chairman, Professor Peter Rawson, said: “In 2007, the museums and galleries worked with around 3,000 school pupils, we now work with three times that number, in addition over half the schools in the borough have used us in the last 12 months.

“The majority of these visits are by primary schools, we continue to develop new offers for schools and are looking at how we can improve our offer for secondary schools.”

A fund-raising dinner with a 1950s seaside theme held earlier this month raised £4,500 to support the work with secondary schools.