Fun, Free & Family Friendly! JUNE PRINT EDITION May 22nd - September 9th How many did you spot? Don’t forget enter the Hare Spotter competitions on page 4. Once you have found the hares, share, like or tweet - we’d love to hear from you. @CotswoldsHare cotswolds_hare cotswoldsHare Web: www.cotswoldsharetrail.org.uk Email: [email protected] Phone: 07780 624951 Distributed by Glide Media Tel: 01242 576010 THE COTSWOLDS PREMIER PUBLIC ART TRAIL The Cotswolds Hare Trail May 22nd - September 9th CONTENTS Pages 1-3 Welcome to the Trail We are delighted to say this year’s trail will be bigger than ever, with over 130 hares to find hidden all over the beautiful Cotswolds. Pages 4-7 Our partner this year is Cotswolds Area of Competition time Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). There will be Hare sculptures dotted thoughout Pages 8-9 Cotswold towns and countryside promoting Getting started sustainable tourism in the area, through this years theme of living landscapes. The Cotswold Hare Trail is a unique tourist Pages 10-17 attraction, that can be explored by car, rail, bike Hare trail maps or on foot. It celebrates the Cotswolds with its rich history, natural diversity, agriculture, crafts, culture and businesses. So if you have a love of Pages 18-31 public art, design, sculpture and interest in arts Large hares projects and environmental conservation - then this is the trail for you. Pages 32-41 Leverets For more information about the trail visit: www.cotswoldsharetrail.org.uk Pages 42-48 Special Springers Pages 49-53 Auction and Thank-yous 1. Welcome to Cotswolds AONB Supported by: Hare Sculpture Trail - 2018 A Brief History of the Trail The Cirencester March Hare Festival began in 2014 Now in 2018 in our 5th year the Cotswolds celebrating the Town’s links with the famous Roman Conservation Board are delighted to team up with Hare Mosaic in the Corinium Museum with a Trail the Hare Trail organisers. Helping to conserve, of 5 foot hare sculptures decorated by local artists. enhance, explore and enjoy the special qualities of The money raised through an auction at the end of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty the Trail went to Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust to (AONB), whilst encouraging everyone from art assist them in setting up a permanent new walkway aficionados and nature lovers to social media snappers around the River Churn in Cirencester for the benefit to visit new attractions. Explore hidden hills and valleys, of locals and tourists. quiet corners and busy market towns along the trail. 2015 the Cirencester March Hare Festival celebrated hare art with a trail of 50 leverets, a community arts For more information about AONB event featuring artists’s images of hares in a town visit: www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk wide open exhibition. Seven new hare sculptures were commissioned for permanent siting. 2016 saw Watermoor Primary School pupils decorate mini hares which were then displayed around Cirencester. 2017 saw the return of the five foot hares, but this time featuring them in a new Cotswold wide Trail. 80 large hares and 22 leverets bounded across a wide region stretching from Bristol to Broadway, Cheltenham to Woodstock. Auction proceeds this time were donated to National Star. 2. 3. Hare Spotter Competition. Be in with a chance to win your very own hare Entry Form sculpture! Plus runner up prizes to be won! How to enter the prize draw: Find the code on the plaque at the base of each hare leveret or springer on the trail. Fill in your answers below, then fill out your contact details before returning PRIZES... your entry to us at the address overleaf. Good luck! Name: ............................... Code:................. Name: ............................... Code:................. Name: ............................... Code:................. Main prize! Name: ............................... Code:................. A bronzed 18 inch Leveret Name: ............................... Code:................. Name: ............................... Code:................. Name: ............................... Code:................. Runner-up prizes Name: ............................... Code:................. Browse Waterstones Name: ............................... Code:................. (Cirencester) at your leisure Name: ............................... Code:................. and pick up some gems with Name: ............................... Code:................. this book token. Name: ............................... Code:................. Name: ............................... Code:................. Afternoon Tea for Two at Slaughters Manor House, Name: ............................... Code:................. Lower Slaughter. Name: ............................... Code:................. Name: ............................... Code:................. For a full list of all the runner-up prizes, please Name: ............................... Code:................. visit our website www.cotswoldsharetrail.org.uk Name: ............................... Code:................. Name: ............................... Code:................. Name: ............................... Code:................. 4. 5. Entry Form Super-Hare-Spotter Competition Please fill out your contact details: Star PRIZE Name .......................................................................... Address ......................................................................... ...................................................................................... Telephone ..................................................................... Email ......................................................................... Please return your completed entry form to: Hare Competition, PO Box 322 CIRENCESTER, GL7 9HS All entries to be completed by September the 10th. The Prize Draw for both competitions will take place at our Farewell to Hares end of trail event on the 18th September. Terms and Conditions: The Cotswolds AONB Hare Trail is organised and administered by the Cotswolds Your chance to win your own 5 foot Hare to Hare Trail Committee in partnership with Cotswolds Conservation Board, The Discovery Centre, Old Prison, Fosse Way, Northleach GL54 3JH. This is a free to enter competition. To be eligible to enter the Cotswold AONB Hare Trail competitions please note: if you are under 16, please make sure you have decorate! For the truly dedicated hare follower, your parent or guardian’s permission before you provide any personal information to us. Children under 16 must not provide us with personal information without this permission. You must not be a staff enter the prize draw for finding ALL 130 Hares, member of Cotswolds AONB or Hare Trail Committee member. The prizes are listed on page 4 of this booklet. The Promoters’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. The winners will Leverets and Springers. be notified within 7 working days of the draw date either by email or telephone. The winners names will be announced on the Cotswolds AONB Hare Trail Facebook page and subsequently on the website.www. cotswoldsharetrail.org.uk. Full addresses will not be disclosed. If the writing is illegible on the entry Simply upload photos of yourself alongside the form and no contact details are given, new winners will be selected on the day of the draw. By entering the draw winners confirm their agreement to take part in any associated publicity. Cotswolds AONB Hares, Leverets and Springers then add all your Hare Trail respects and is committed to protecting the privacy of winning individuals. In accordance with the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) any personal information will remain private and photos to a folder marked Comp 2018. Email with will only be used for the purposes of the draw. By entering this competition you are giving us permission to contact you should you be successful. your name and contact details via WE TRANSFER to: [email protected] 6. 7. Getting started... Ready... 1. Hop to it! There will be over 130 hares of various sizes dotted throughout the Cotswolds. Use Set... this guide with maps to help track them down, keep a count of how many you find on the gallery pages. Super-Hare Spotters should enter our competitions on page 4. Hare we go! 2. Put a spring in your step Share your hare discoveries on social media by uploading your pictures on our facebook, twitter or instagram pages. Plus check our website regularly throughout the trail to see what else is springing up! Look out for the Roving Hare at some special Cotswold events. 3. Be a Hare-raiser Join us at the end of the trail when the auction goes live. 21st September in The Cirencester. Net profits will go to the Caring for the Cotswolds visitor giving scheme and Hare Glorious Cotswold Grasslands. Trail 8. 9. North Cotswolds AONB Hare Trail Central Cotswolds Warwick Henley-in-Arden M40 Leamington Spa Gloucestershire Warwick Stratford-upon-Avon Worcester M40 Warwickshire Map of Hares AONB Hare Trail PAGES 8-9 Evesham Chipping Steam Railway Malvern Hills A44 Campden M50 M5 Broadway North Cotswolds Tewkesbury Moreton-in-Marsh M40 The Cotswold Way Winchcombe Stow-on-the-Wold Chipping Norton Bourton-on-the-Water Cheltenham A429 A40 Gloucester A40 East Cotswolds Woodstock Leamington Spa Northleach Burford A417 Witney A40 Cotswold AONB PAGESFairford CORINIUM MUSEUM Bibury Oxford Stroud Henley-in-Arden 10-11Cirencester AONB Hare Trail Lechlade-on-Thames Nailsworth Dursley South Cerney A420 Abingdon A429 Faringdon M5 A34 Tetbury Highworth A419 Malmesbury