Trails of Discovery

There are 3 sorts of Trails on offer by The Arts Society 

1. For Children aged 8 – 12 yrs, there are trails that will  guide them around places of worship or historic buildings.
2. Neighbourhood Trails which are self-guided walks around an area, looking at art, architecture, local history & culture. In the SW area, there are now two new train branch line trails: Plymouth to Gunnislake; St Earth to St Ives.
3. Memory Trails, for people living with dementia.

The Arts Society trails benefit children by aiding their understanding and appreciation of our cultural heritage. The trails are fun and interesting with the youngsters becoming detectives sifting clues provided, adding their responses in written or numerical form or drawing the images before them. In-depth answer sheets for accompanying teachers and adults supply the

If you are interested in church architecture as well as all the different artefacts within created in glass, textiles, wood, ceramics and metal then you might consider volunteering to make a trail with friends for your local church. The team are always on the lookout for churches which have an interesting building/contents/good catchment area re primary schools.

find more information at:

https://trails.theartssociety.org/

or 

https://explorechurches.org/Devon