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Council has established the 2015 Bicentenary Committee to develop a program of events, activities and projects to celebrate the City's 200th year.

Council has undertaken a number of interpretive projects including:

• Cobb & Co. heritage trails
• Various brochures, e.g. Chinese heritage
• Bathurst & Kelso heritage trails
• 100 Lives of the Bathurst Cemetery & Bathurst
• Rural cemetery booklets.

Exciting new projects currently being undertaken include:

• The Pillars of Bathurst cultural garden – celebrating the lives of past Bathurstians.  For nomination forms and further information visit yoursay.bathurst.nsw.gov.au
• Government settlement interpretation project – heritage trail of sites and stories of Bathurst's early Government settlement between 1815 and 1840.
• Council also provides funding through its Conservation and Interpretation fund to assist community groups and individuals on interpretation projects. Recent projects include:
• Town square interpretive signage & thematic history.
• Long Swamp and Mt Carmel rural cemetery interpretive signs.
• Rockley Mill banners
• Interpretation signs at Sunny Corner and the Howitzer Gun.