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Climate change is the biggest buzzword of the moment but often the concept seems abstract and distant. Now thanks to a Β£3.5 million pound investment of Hill Farm at Little Wittenham the issues are being brought closer to home.

Project Timescape is an interactive visitors centre at The Northmoor Trust’s site near the Wittenham clumps and since early autumn 06 it has been open to schoolchildren and is now open to everyone on Sundays and School Holidays from Tuesday - Saturday (closed every Monday). Doors open 10am - 5pm. Last admission 4:15pm

The centre charts a journey through the local landscape from the end of the last Ice Age through to 2080.

Tickets cost Β£5 for adults and Β£3.50 for a child, with all children receiving a passport to allow free entry for the rest of the year. The centre will also be free to Friends of the Northmoor Trust and to encourage greener transport, visitors arriving by bicycle or bus will be rewarded with a complimentary cup of fair trade tea or coffee.

We sent our reporter Tim Bearder to tour the exhibitions on display with The Director of Education Claire Poulton. The tour you can listen to below only scratches the surface of the things you can see and do at the centre. More information can be found on Project Timescape’s interactive website at the top right of this page but ultimately it’s well worth taking a look around for yourself on a visit to the centre.