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.
If you’d like to join us on a walk or would like more information, please contact us
First Friday Walk dates 2025
- Jan 3rd : A Stroud-based walk to the Heavens Valley – an area of land recently purchased by Stroud community. Lead by Lucy Guenot See: https://www.heavensvalley.org.uk
- Feb 7th : Growing Places walk to coincide with the Growing Places exhibition at Stroud Museum in the Park from Jan 25th- Feb 23rd
- March 7th : A Honeybourne Line walk, Cheltenham to coincide with Line(s) of Enquiry exhibition, Hardwick Gallery.
- April 4th : Will be lead by Deb Roberts & Lucy Guenot with Councillor Gill Thomas, visiting Charlea Gardens & Blackness Banks along the way.
- May 2nd : A Cleeve Hill walk lead by Amanda Steer.
- June 6th : Tamsin Grainger will be organising an ‘at distance’ walk (tbc).
- July 4th : Richard Keating will lead a tree walk around Nailsworth
- August 1st : A walk around Cardiff Bay lead by Valerie Coffin Price.
- Sept 5th : A walk in Churchdown lead by Zoe Ashbrook.
- October 3rd : Ruth Illingworth will be co-ordinating a walk as part of Dursley Walking Festival .
- November 7th : TBC
- Dec 5th : TBC