Pride of place in the May issue of the Friends of the Ridgeway quarterly newsletter is the 9th annual Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize exhibition, held in Uffington on the last weekend in April. Wendy Tobitt talked to the winners and presents their winning pieces. There was a new record of entries and a quarter of them were sold. Broadcaster, anthropologist and countryside lover Mary-Ann Ochota is now the Patron of the Ridgeway Partnership, the body that manages and promotes the Ridgeway National Trail. FoR trustee Tim Lewis oversaw the installation of another information board on the Great Chalk Way, in Wiltshire. The 25 photographs taken by Matt Writtle as part of the Ridgeway Photo 50 project, supported by the Arts Council of England, are now being erected along the Trail by the Ridgeway and Thames Path Volunteers. The Historic Ridgeway project goes from strength to strength. We look at the vegetation clearance being done by volunteers from the local community, and at a management plan for Mongewell Grim’s Ditch. The Annual General Meeting of the FoR will be held online by Zoom at 18.30 on 10 June 2025. Joining details, the Agenda and the Annual Report are in the newsletter, as well as online.
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