Churchyard Maintenance

Latest: Firstly, Please God can we have some more rain!  When I came back from our holiday in Tanzania, I can seriously say that the Serengeti looked greener than the churchyard. To dispell ideas that Africa is always hot - we had a daily max of 26 degrees C (dropping to 16 at night), whilst we watched UK temperatures soar into the 30s!  So the picture below is a little out of date at the moment.  But, after another 'hitch'/learning curve with the ride-on mower involving a connection that jump out, the grass has been cut again ready for that rain!  The state of the public footpath between our boundary and Waters Avenue has been brought to our attention, somehow it seems to have got missed when the other footpaths were cleared, so we might 'break-out' as a service to the community and strim and trim it ourselves.

We are a small informal team of helpers who do our best to maintain the churchyard.  Because some of us work, and some of us are retired, we don't, at present, have any formal time of meeting.  We just put ourselves to work when we can find the time, whether that's during the week or at weekends.

We are leaving some areas of the churchyard 'wild' for nature.  In the most this is on the edges and around older, untended graves. But if you do tend a grave and it's 'in the wilderness' and you rather it wasn't then do let us know.

We have a fairly extensive set of tools at our disposal, with 3 petrol mowers, a couple of strimmers (little and large) and a good selection of hand tools.

If you would like to help us then please do contact Mark (About Us) and we can arrange a time convenient to you to meet up and 'do some work' for however long you've got! We're running a small Messenger chat group so we can all contact each other.

If you do tend any grave or cremation memorial stone then please do remove any old flowers/plants etc as the season progresses.  Likewise if you are leaving cut flowers then do not leave them in plastic wrapping.  We are trying to do our part for the enviroment and plastic waste is high in the media interest at the moment! The green bin in the car park area is for general church/churchyard waste (despite it's colour).

Many thanks for reading.

Mark and the churchyard maintenance team.

Updated: 20250711