About WCS
Weymouth Civic Society
Founded in 1944, Weymouth Civic Society's role is to enhance the experience of living in Weymouth, Portland, Chickerell and surrounding areas.
How we deliver our purpose
We focus our activities across five categories that impact the quality of civic life.
1. Buildings
We encourage quality in town planning and the public realm, as well as private architecture. We celebrate success, campaign for excellence and provide expert opinion.
2. Heritage
We engage residents and visitors with our history, while helping to conserve sites of historic interest and increases access to them.
3. Arts
We support the visual and performing arts by delivering exhibitions and events, as well as by supporting other groups to deliver their artistic projects.
4. Community
We encourage the availability of facilities and initiatives that support the physical and mental wellbeing of residents within a vibrant community.
5. Nature
We support initiatives that protect and enhance the natural environment to the benefit of non-human species and landscapes.
How we’re organised
WCS is a registered charity with a board of trustees delivering governance to ensure our charitable aims are met in a legal, financially sustainable and ethical manner.
Sitting underneath the board and reporting into it are three sub-committees.
Nothe Fort Management Committee runs Nothe Fort.
Tudor House Committee runs Tudor House.
Our Planning Committee provides expert scrutiny of planning applications, submitting comments to planning authorities on behalf of WCS and referring projects they consider strategic to the development of our area to the WCS board for high level consideration.
Get involved today
Volunteer or become a trustee
WCS has delivered many fantastic initiatives over the years because generations of local people have donated their time, skill and energy. Volunteering is one of the most meaningful things you can do in life and we invite you to be part of our work.
As well as hands on volunteering, WCS’ board, planning committee and the management committees of our museums, welcome people with governance experience, as well as financial and people management experience or technical skills to contribute to our success.
Contact us to find out how to get involved.
Visitors
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Every year, over 94,000 people visit the historic buildings that WCS is conserving for the future.
Volunteers
140 local people donate time, skill and energy each year to help deliver the full range of WCS initiatives.
Join us today
Join WCS
WCS is a volunteer run membership organisation. Membership costs just £15 a year and your money goes directly to helping us deliver great work in our community. Members also benefit from meetings where we address subjects of pressing local interest and hear from experts. We regularly keep in touch to make sure members are fully appraised of our work in the key civic areas that we focus on. We prefer membership applications using our online portal but you can still join by sending us a membership enquiry.
Our awards
Nominate projects to win one of our famous annual awards
Our famous annual awards recognise amazing contributions people have made in our five focus areas: buildings, heritage, community, arts and nature. We are always on the look out for nominations from our members as well as the public. Find out more on our awards page or contact us to submit a nomination.
Our museums
WCS conserves Weymouth's Nothe Fort and Tudor House as popular heritage visitor attractions
WCS is proud to have saved two of Weymouth’s most significant historic buildings. We operate Nothe Fort and Tudor House as museums. You can find out more about these two fantastic sites by visiting their separate websites: Nothe Fort, Tudor House
