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The May Chase & Chalke Newsletter

The Chase & Chalke Landscape Partnership is a group of organisations working to protect and enhance the special landscape of Cranborne Chase and Chalke Valley. With Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) as the lead partner, and with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, this 5-year partnership is working with local communities to better connect people with the landscape.

Sara's Artworks

Unearthing Chase and Chalke
May 2022 Artist Residency Project Update

Chase & Chalke Artist in Residence Sara Dudman RWA gives us an insight into the ‘Unearthing’ project, which aims to explore Cranborne Chase through its geology and earth colours:

“Where to begin?

With a series of Sporadic-Nomadic walks, learning and feeling the terrain and character of Cranborne Chase and the river valleys.

Sporadic - because I have been coming and going from Cranborne Chase since I first arrived in early February.

Nomadic - because that’s what I’ve become; walking the routes first laid down many centuries ago by other travellers for so many different purposes…”

Sara Dudman Collecting Pigments

Cranborne Chase is so deeply rooted in its origins as a Royal Hunting Chase, and before that, as a nomadic hunting ground since Neolithic and even earlier people occupied this land.

Wherever I’ve walked, it always seems to come back to the ‘hunting’.

Picking up spent cartridges, animal bones, walking beside fields of uncut tall elephant grass, providing food and cover for today’s game birds and my own wanderings, collecting earth and rocks in recycled bread bags; I am a hunter-gatherer.”

Intrigued? Read Sara’s full blog post on our Chalkeboard blog where she documents her progress and processes of turning the materials she collects into art materials and creates artworks reflecting the landscape.

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Trainees Needed for River Survey Training on the Ebble Thursday 19th May

Join the Wessex Rivers Trust on the banks of the river Ebble for river habitat survey training and make positive environmental changes possible!

Sessions are 1 and a half hours, either:

  • 3pm - 4.30pm

  • 4.30pm - 6pm

Come along and meet our friendly team for some informative fun on the banks of the charming river Ebble! A fantastic opportunity to learn about the environment around you and to help us protect our river species.

Please register on our volunteer hub or email us at:

info.cranbornechase@wiltshire.gov.uk

Register Here

Oral History Training at Gold Hill Museum & Coombe Bissett - Trainees or Interviewees Needed

We are looking for trainees to learn the art of Oral History recording.

The aim of the ‘Memories Captured’ project is to capture 40 individual stories of rural life and enter them into the Dorset History Centre Archives before they are lost to time.

The team needs your help to achieve this aim.

We are also looking for people from Cranborne Chase or the surrounding area who wish to have their stories recorded.

If this sounds like you, or anyone you may know, please get in touch today.

Either email CharelotteMoreton@cranbornechase.org.uk or register via our volunteer hub.

Register Today

Learn about the Chase & Chalke Landscape Partnership

The Chase & Chalke Landscape Partnership is a group of organisations working to protect and enhance the special landscape of Cranborne Chase and the Chalke Valley.

We work with Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) as our lead partner. We will be sending out updates on our projects and activities. Learn more about Chase & Chalke here.

A map of the chase and chalke area

Learn more about who we are, what we do, and the projects of the scheme on our website.

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Funding for the Chase & Chalke Landscape Partnership Scheme comes from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thank you to National Lottery players for making our work possible.

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