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Heritage Heroes Youth Conservation Club
Sign up your class to be Heritage Heroes! Receive a personalized membership card and Heritage Heroes bracelet for each student and a “Passport to Adventure Booklet” for the class to work on throughout the academic year.
Through our Heritage Heroes classroom membership programme, students learn the importance of protecting the natural environment, history, and culture of the Cayman Islands through activities, discussions with heritage experts, and field trips.
Participating children are encouraged to promote heritage and environmentally conscious activities, such as reducing waste, energy, and water, and to volunteer in community service. Our Heritage Heroes Programme is available to schools across all three islands.
Education Toolkits
Explore our digital library of information sheets about the Cayman Islands Environment, History and Culture, covering a range of topics from the coral reef ecosystem to traditional architecture. To request information sheets email education@nationaltrust.org.ky
Bird Life In The Cayman Islands Educational Video
Blue Iguana Conservation: True Blue Toolkit
Traditional Caymanian Houses Educational Video
To learn more about our toolkits and educational resources, contact us today.
School Visits, Presentations and Teachers’ Resources
To drive education and public awareness, we work closely with local schools from nursery to university-level to share the importance of preserving Cayman’s unique natural and historic heritage.
Age-appropriate and curriculum linked presentations can be delivered on topics such as climate change, plastic pollution, native species, traditional architecture, and our Islands’ history. We endeavor to engage students in the topic being discussed, encouraging them to get involved and make a difference.
We are in the process of creating a tremendous cache of teachers guides and educational packs in digital format, including short educational videos, projects, activities, and field trip suggestions to supplement National Curriculum topics and make it even easier for educators to access our local treasures in the classroom.
To organise a school visit or request information regarding our local flora, fauna or heritage, contact our Education Programme Manager.
Adult Speaker Series
Listen to experts discuss topics critical to the local environment and heritage and be part of a discussion aimed at provoking solutions within our community.
Discuss climate change challenges, concerns of the health of our oceans, review Cayman’s hurricane history and how the construction of traditional homes withstood some of the worst storms to hit the Cayman Islands, and other topical issues.
Previous speakers at our joint education/community speaker series have included:
- Lex Hes, African safari guide, naturalist and wildlife photographer
- Blaine Bettinger, PhD, world-renowned genetic genealogist
- Joanne Mercille-Ross, native plant grower at Caribbean Blooms
National Trust Research Library
Browse a wide array of books, newsletters and magazines on the topics of birds, bats, the Blue Iguana and other reptiles, marine life, oceanography, wetlands, sustainable living, historic architecture and regional and local flora.
There is also a dedicated space within the library for books and magazines pertaining to the Cayman Islands’ history, heritage and environment, many of which are no longer in circulation.
Our Library is open to any member of the public and includes kid-friendly story books, research materials for students (primary – university) and books of interest for adults that can be borrowed or read in a small seating area is available for your comfort.
The library is located within our main office at Dart Family Park and is open during normal working hours.
Cayman Sea Sense
Cayman Sea Sense is a local seafood education programme dedicated to helping restaurants and their customers make informed and environmentally-positive choices, such as reducing the number of non-sustainable seafood items on menus.
The programme’s goals are to:
- Educate the general public about fisheries and aquaculture issues facing our oceans;
- Raise awareness about the impact that our seafood choices have on sustainable fisheries management practices; and
- Lessen the impact of the Cayman Islands’ restaurant industry on the world’s fragile ocean resources and the health of our local coral reefs.
The use of Cayman Sea Sense’s logo on a menu allows consumers to confidentially identify restaurants that employs best practices and choose responsible seafood options as certified by us.