The Filey Bay Initiative - investigating, promoting, educating and advertising the assets of this exclusive and beautiful area that is integrated into our community, including the Filey John Paul Jones Heritage Coast which has generated a lot of interest.

The Filey John Paul Jones Heritage Coast is featured in this new site  to compliment the Town of Filey's Sistership and cultural link with Calvert County, Maryland, USA and is very successful in promoting our area to overseas visitors.  In the Cultural Link section we look at maritime projects in Calvert County that are linked to our own in the Bay as part of our "British History in America" which helped to shape the County during early turbulent times.  We have visited two maritime projects on behalf of the Town and we have a new link to our work in the Bay with a maritime Rescue Squad.

A new group, "Friends of Filey Bay Initiative" has started and membership is open to all interested members of the public to  share in the  knowledge about our area, the Filey Dragon pops up  and another new group "Filey Rocks and Fossils" are featured as they take a peek into our local geology with young students. On the question of a possible undiscovered early period settlement of North Filey, we publish Archaeologist Dan Eaton's own researches into this fascinating subject.

Our own maritime history continues to be investigated, expanded and featured here and surfers can interact with a plan of a shipwreck to see the actual underwater condition of the vessel as it is today.   The pages of this site are continually being improved and we welcome comments from our surfers.

Sponsorship - You can become a sponsor of the Initiative's  Bonhomme Richard Project  2007,     contact us for details.

On a broader front, the Initiative has an interest in the maritime conservation area at Flamborough and the Filey Bay Initiative supports The Flamborough Head European Marine Site Management Scheme. Filey is very pleased to have received the European Blue Flag award for the cleanliness of its seawater and beaches

All the material in this site is the subject of copyright (see disclaimer).  While we take a relaxed view to material being used for educational and personal use we request that individuals using this material for commercial, promotional and publication purposes contact us first.  To those professional organisations who have already requested use of our material, we extend our gratitude  and we hope that you have found the information useful. If you have any comments you can contact the webmaster
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The Filey Bay Initiative is a Company Limited by Guarantee, Registered at Companies House, Crown Way Cardiff, CF14 3UZ . Registered number:  04731745. Registered Office: Council Offices, 52A Queen Street, Filey, North Yorkshire YO14 9HE.

All content © L P Green December 2006

We are grateful for the assistance of our sponsors without whose financial help this new site would not have been possible

Project part financed by the European Union European Regional Development Fund

               

This Project is Supported by the Scarman Trust