Awards & Funders

At Norton Priory Museum & Gardens we are proud to have won several awards, including:

  • Sandford Awards for excellence in education provision  1992, 1997, 2002 and 2007 (awarded for durations of 5 years)
  • Finalist Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year 2004
  • North West Tourist Board - Welcome Host and Welcome All
  • Reed Award - for special needs education provision
  • Green Tourism Business Award 2006 – Gold
  • North West in Bloom Best Small Tourist Attraction Runner Up 2005 & 2006
  • Cheshire and Warrington Tourism Board "Tourism for All" award 2005
  • Northwest Positive Action Award 2005

Norton Priory is grateful to the following for their kind support:

  • Halton Borough Council
  • The Heritage Lottery Fund
  • English Heritage
  • NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts)
  • Clore Duffield Foundation
  • Brooke Foundation
  • Sir Kenneth Greene
  • WREN (Waste Recycling Group Ltd)
  • Learning & Skills Council
  • B&Q
  • MLA Northwest
  • Mersey Forest
  • The Woodland Trust
  • Cheshire Landscape Trust
  • DEFRA
  • Ineos Chlor

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