The Annual Swire Ridgeway Arts Competition

 Parishioners are invited to enter an art competition celebrating the Ridgeway.  An Ancient chalk route that extends for 83 miles from Ivinghoe Beacon in the east to Avebury in the west, the topography, views, changing landscapes and vistas makes an excellent subject for artists.

 There are 4 sections for the competition

• Photography
• Wall art (in any medium)
• Sculpture
• Written Work

The competition and exhibition on the weekend of April 26 and 27 2025 will be held at The Thomas Hughes Memorial Hall in Uffington, Oxfordshire.   

Entrants need to complete an entry form by 28th March 2025.

Entrance fee £5 per entry/exhibit

Contact swireartsprize@gmail.com for more information

 

PENNYHOOKS SAVE THE DATE Christmas Fayre 2024 Saturday 23rd November 10.30am - 1.30pm   Mugs Pens Cards Jellies Calendars Tea - Towels Pennyhooks Honey Birdboxes and Beehouses Chopping Boards Pine Cone Trees P l a n t e r s Reindeer Coasters   We are delighted to welcome visitors to our annual Christmas Fayre at Pennyhooks Farm. We invite you to come and share a drink and home-made cake with us. Come and browse our range of products made by our students, visit the animals and enjoy a walk around the farm - remember to bring your wellies! We will also be running a Bottle Tombola and Raffle. If you are local and able to help us by volunteering on the day, we would be most grateful, please let us know at pennyhooksfarmtrust@gmail.com or give us a call on 01793 780213 We are happy to accept cash or cheques as well as card or BACs payments       Picking crab-apples to make our jams and jellies       AUTUMN NEWS   Despite the weather, we have enjoyed getting back together, busy with our preparations for our Harvest meal this week and our fast approaching Christmas Fayre.     Staff, Students, our Patron and his wife (Gordon and Janet Gatward) and Kate Clare enjoying our harvest meal together. Janet also demonstrated her spinning wheel and the students enjoyed being part of a new craft.     We have been 'blackberrying' and cutting willow to use for reindeer legs and bee-house fillers as well as feeding the leaves to some very happy goats! Some of us have also been learning green woodworking skills and have been making small stools, using a shave horse.       On the farm, we have welcomed our new bull, "Nuthatch Wesley". We are also very pleased with the arrival of a precious, healthy calf - it has been a joy to see her drinking well and trotting after her mother.     Nuthatch Wesley arrives and everyone watches as he gets used to his new surroundings. Our new calf, just a day old!     We also have some other wonderful news to share: our Centre Manager, Emma Masefield who has been studying for a Masters in Autism in Adults (M.Ed), achieved a distinction for her dissertation, "In their own space and time" Autistic adults have difficulty being understood by non-autistic carers, can attending to the movement differences between them help to bridge the gap in finding a common language? A Case Study. Her tutors highly commended her work, as being insightful and innovative and are suggesting that it be put forward for publication as it adds new knowledge to the field.     Celebrating Emma's success       Find us at Pennyhooks Farm, Shrivenham, Oxon. SN6 8EX (signed just off the A420 between Shrivenham & Watchfield)   Thank you for all your support for Pennyhooks Farm Trust which we appreciate very much indeed