About Us

The Aims of The Charles Darwin Trust

  • To use Darwin-Inspired Teaching and Learning to promote excellence in science education
  • To enhance the understanding of Darwin's historical and contemporary significance.
  • To improve and extend science literacy and the understanding of science.

The Charles Darwin Trust uses the intellectual and cultural heritage of Darwin, through his approach to science and his work at Down House and in the immediate countryside, to inspire a deeper understanding of the natural world.

The Trust achieves this through research and development of Darwin-Inspired education materials, and through developing programmes for teachers and schools. These programmes are delivered through collaboration with major organisations and at Down House. The Trust is seeking to adapt its programmes for availability online.

The  case for the nominated World Heritage Site Darwin's Landscape Laboratory  is based on the research carried out by the Trust into Darwin's experiments and observations in the Downe area.

The Trust aspires to improve public access on the web to the whole Darwin heritage. It is playing a leading role, with English Heritage and the Natural History Museum, in developing proposals for collaboration between all the main holders of Darwin material.