A COMMUNITY group striving to create a museum in Pocklington has been granted charitable status by the Charity Commissioners, and is now named Pocklington District Heritage Trust. The chance to keep recent Iron Age and Saxon archaeological discoveries in the town saw the group formed in 2017. Further digs produced more finds of international importance. The group aims to develop a local facility to showcase and tell the story of all eras from Pocklington, surrounding villages and the western Wolds, covering an area of approximately Melbourne to Huggate on one axis, and Nunburnholme to Wilberfoss in the other. The Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) application was approved in November, and the new trust is now managed by a board of ten trustees. Chairman of trustees, Phil Gilbank, said: “Gaining charitable status is a small but significant step on the road to achieving our vision of a museum that does justice to the area’s remarkable heritage. We have a long way