This year there are two categories: Wainwright Country - the location of the photographs should be in areas associated with Wainwright; British Countryside - the location of the photographs can be anywhere else in the British Isles and should capture the beauty of our countryside
In August 2022 the Government announced that Alfred Wainwright’s Coast to Coast Walk would be designated a National Trail
The 2023 Challenge Book "Westmorland: Tribute to a County” is now on sale and can be purchased through the Society website shop
A Newt in Hard Tarn, written by former Society Secretary, Derek Cockell, is an appreciation of the life and work of Alfred Wainwright. The book, containing over 90 of AWs sketches from many of his publications
Richard Warren, Chair of the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association, will give this year’s annual Wainwright Memorial Lecture. It will be a timely look at the Association’s vital work as, at mid-August, there have already been 475 emergency call outs
There is a long and close connection between Animal Rescue Cumbria (ARC) and The Wainwright Society. Alfred Wainwright was famously fond of animals. It was often said he preferred animals to people
