Our Work

Catch up with our latest work across Northern Ireland's first UNESCO World Heritage Site

A wildflower plant in close up with purple petals blooming
Giant's Causeway   County Antrim

Innovative approaches to farming explored at the Giant’s Causeway

North Coast Farm Resilience Project, a pioneering land management project for the National Trust in Northern Ireland whereby productive agricultural can go hand in hand with farming and nature conservation

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The National Trust is trialling the first electric van in its fleet of site vehicles in Northern Ireland
Giant's Causeway   County Antrim

National Trust goes Electric on Causeway Coast

The National Trust is trialing the first electric van in its fleet of site vehicles in Northern Ireland.

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The Giant's Causeway Visitor Centre
Giant's Causeway   County Antrim

How to survive a busy Christmas…top tips from the National Trust

The National Trust at the Giant’s Causeway and Carrick-a-Rede have compiled their top tips to help you survive a busy Christmas, so it doesn’t end up as hectic as The Griswold’s!

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A view of a wildflower meadow on the Colby Estate
Giant's Causeway   County Antrim

Meadow Musings - Why are wildflowers so important?

Summer brings wildflower meadows overgrown and bursting with colour usually from a wonderful range of flowering plants. Not only a pleasant sight but also an important one, and where is why...

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Local marine volunteers gathering rubbish from the Litter Pick at Sea
Giant's Causeway   County Antrim

GIANT efforts to tackle Marine Litter

National Trust staff, local volunteers and local marine businesses braved the waters around the Giant’s Causeway for their third litter pick at sea

Check out what our teams fished out of the water
Dunseverick Primary School pupils helping to launch the children's guide book at the Giant's Causeway
Giant's Causeway   County Antrim

Nature rocks!

We have a new children's guide book all about Northern Ireland's only World Heritage Site

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Picture shows red swirling pattern on the surface of a leaf
Giant's Causeway   County Antrim

Micro moths at Giant's Causeway

The rare Sorrel Pigmy moth caterpillar has been discovered at the causeway, the first time this species has been spotted in Northern Ireland.

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A group of National Trust staff and volunteers at Ballintoy Harbour
Giant's Causeway   County Antrim

Our first litter pick by sea

Watch how we tackled litter in inaccessible bays around the World Heritage Site

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Members of the Giant's Causeway meet a Dunluce School pupil
Giant's Causeway   County Antrim

Local children show how funding has been used

Find out how a local school's carpark is helping our site - and benefitting local schoolchildren

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Two girls with the potatoes they harvested at Innisfree Farm
Giant's Causeway   County Antrim

Harvesting a love of nature

Local school children learn to plant, grow and harvest potatoes with our conservation ranger team

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