We have been walking together on the first Friday of each month since 2004.
We’re pleased that walkers are able join us from a wide number of locations, including Scotland, Wales, Sweden, Georgia, Greece, USA and Australia.
Our walks are designed so that they can be joined where ever you happen to be either remotely, or in person at various locations throughout Gloucestershire in the UK.
We try to synchronise our walks so that everyone begins their own walk together.
If you walk together with us in rural Gloucestershire, most walks are around 5-7 km with a mixture of terrain that can vary between muddy tracks on hillside to flat and grassy river banks.
Walkers come from a variety of different disciplines and include artists and non-artists. Although many who join us are painters, printmakers and photographers others are poets, naturalists, writers, film makers, sound recordists, musicians or psychogeographers
Walks are generally ‘themed’ or ‘scripted’ and often a vehicle for shared, mutually agreed projects.
For more information on how to join us on a First Friday Walk, please contact us.
First Friday Walk dates 2026
- Jan 2nd : A Stroud-based walk Lead by Lucy Guenot.
- Feb 6th : a distal walk to be lead by Tamsin Grainger.
- March 6th : Lead by Rachel McDonnell and Sara Dudman.
- April 3rd : Lucy Guenot will lead a walk close to Stroud. Join us as we immerse ourselves in Spring.
- May 1st : To be lead by Andy Freedman.
- June 5th : Caroline Morris will be leading a walk relating to the Salmonsbury Field Walking Project at the Greystones Nature Reserve, Bourton-on-the Water.
- July 3rd: Valerie Coffin Price will lead a walk and draw event along the river Taff in Cardiff. A slightly shorter walk than normal with a focus on making work in response to changes and developments along the river as well as sounds, textures, atmosphere of the city and built up environment.
- August 7th: Co-led by Kate McMahon-Parkes and Ian Knight. The walk will invite us to consider the layers of human history within the landscape (this could be rural or in an urban environment). In particular, we wish to consider how humans have attempted to ‘create’, emulate or manage nature, and how ‘nature’ (whatever the term means) has (at times) reclaimed or obscured human interventions.
- September 4th: This months walk will be led by Amanda Steer. We will be walking on Cleeve Common thinking about accessibility and the interventions introduced to encourage access by all, the barriers there may be and the implications of offering these outdoor experiences to all. Starting off along Cleeve Common’s “Tramper Trail”, we will continue off it to complete a total of about 4 miles from start to finish. The route has some undulation and a steepish descent and a short sharp ascent later into the route. The “Tramper” is an electric all-terrain mobility scooter designed specifically to cover rough ground and grass safely. While walking on Friday, together and remotely, we will look at the landscape and think about accessibility, whilst considering the words of Robert Macfarlane: ”We will not save what we do not love and we rarely love what we cannot name or do not see”. To book your place, find out more information or to receive further prompts if you would like to walk your own route remotely, please email wtl@walkingtheland.org.uk by Wednesday 26th August to book your place and receive details of where and when we are meeting, plus lunch info.
- October 2nd : To be lead by Zoe Ashbrook.
- November 6th : Walk to be led by Rache McDonnell
- December 4th : Richard Keating will lead this winter walk