Our Mission

We celebrate the natural and human heritage of Buxton including its outstanding buildings and wildlife. We conserve and enhance this heritage and advocate its importance in making Buxton a special place to live or to visit.

• We own and manage important heritage sites for conservation and public benefit including Poole’s Cavern and Buxton Country Park (Grin Low Woods Site of Special Scientific Interest with its important wildflower grasslands and archaeological sites) and nine other woodlands that encircle the town.
• We create opportunities for recreation, research, learning, contact with nature, well-being, exercise and social interactions that are vital to our local communities.
• We manage Poole’s Cavern as the leading visitor attraction in Buxton and the British Cave Research Centre.
• We vet and comment on all important planning applications and strategic plans in the town, seeking to improve development work wherever possible.
• We seek to educate others about the importance of Buxton’s heritage.
• We work with other community and civic groups to influence the local councils on environmental and heritage issues.
• We encourage landowners to care for our heritage and tidy up and improve eyesores in the town.
• We support the arts in celebrating the special environment of Buxton.
• We are campaigners and influencers, speaking out on our areas of expertise and interest.