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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