Aims & Objectives

The aim of the Trust is:

"to promote environmental management and sustainable tourism which aims to protect and enhance the unique heritage of the Causeway Coast and Glens area"

In achieving our aim we will seek to:

  • Provide strategic direction and implement funding programmes aimed at the promotion of sustainable tourism in the area
  • Promote high quality visitor management programmes and the conservation of the natural biodiversity and important landscapes of the area
  • Promote greater understanding of the special qualities of the natural resource amongst both local people and visitors
  • Help to spread both visitor pressure and the economic benefits of tourism more evenly throughout the area
  • Initiate research and monitoring programmes on sustainable tourism and visitor and environmental management issues
  • Provide a mechanism to assist with the management of AONB's in the area
  • Coordinate an integrated approach to countryside management by the partnership bodies
  • Secure and distribute funding to assist in the implementation of partnership objectives