People in a churchyard taking part in Love your Burial Ground Week with Churches Count on Nature citizen science initiative, recording wildlife in churchyards, chapel yards and cemeteries

Registrations for Love your Burial Ground Week with Churches Count on Nature are open

To register your event and find resources to help you plan, visit www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/about-love-your-burial-ground-week-with-churches-count-on-nature/

#cfga #churchescountonnature #citizenscience

An ancient yew tree at St Thomas a Becket Church, Warblington in need of clearing work under the canopy

The ancient yew tree at St Thomas a Becket Church, Warblington cleared under the canopy as part of Love Your Yew Week

A big thank you to all the volunteers who joined in with Love Your Yew Week.
Visit the Before and After link in the bio to see more before and after photographs, including St Thomas a Becket, Warblington shown below.
#CFGA #yew #loveyouryew

Yew trees in St Peters Church, Frimley

Lots of Love Your Yew Week inspiration in the gallery from our 2025 LYYW! bit.ly/cfga-yew-wee...

#CFGA #yew #loveyouryew

An ancient yew tree in a country churchyard

It's Love Your Yew Week bit.ly/cfga-love-yo... and here is our patron Chris Baines with a short video on the magnificent ancient yew tree in Discoed, Powys bit.ly/you-tube-anc... . For the full video follow the link bit.ly/cfga-you-tub...

#CFGA #ancientyew #yew #loveyouryew

An ancient yew tree in a churchyard

It's not too late to join Love Your Yew Week!
If you have an ancient or veteran yew in your burial ground - or even a younger one - visit www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/love-your-yew-week/ to find FAQs about removing detritus from under your yew & register before & after photos.
#CFGA #yew #ancientyew

A picture of a thrush singing in a yew tree with berries in a churchyard

Love your Yew Week 9-14 Feb bit.ly/cfga-love-yo... We found this photograph by Andrew Fusek Peters of a thrush singing in a yew tree.
Every part of the yew tree is poisonous, including the seed, but the pink-red fleshy berry "aril" is non-toxic and mildly sweet.
#CFGA #yew #plantscience #ancientyew

Caring For God's Acre – the conservation charity for burial grounds across the UK

Love your Yew Week is coming up on 9th-14th February www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/love-your-ye...
For inspiration why not check out this video by our patron Chris Baines bit.ly/cfga-you-tub...

#cfga #ancientyew #nature #conservation

Season's Greetings to all our members and supporters.

With all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year from everyone at Caring for God's Acre.

#cfga #christmas #seasonsgreetings #newyear

A seasonal wrap up to our Autumn webinar series, Solstice Stories from storyteller Amy Douglas on Tuesday 16th December 2pm - 3pm. Info and FREE booking www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/events/webinars/solstice-stories-from-storyteller-amy-douglas

#cfga #solstice #amydouglasstoryteller #storytelling

Packet of wildflower seed that can be purchased through the Caring for God's Acre website

Wildflower seed mix of mainly native British flowers & grasses inspired by country churchyards.
Sowing best done in Autumn as yellow rattle, a semi-parasitic meadow annual which attaches itself to grasses through the root system needs to overwinter to germinate.
#CFGA #wildflowerseeds #yellowrattle

Volunteers recording inscription on a memorial headstone in Warstone lane Cemetery

First of our Autumn webinar series Our Digital Ancestors: Tales from Warstone Lane Cemetery will be online on Tuesday 7th October from 2pm to 3pm.

For more info and to book your free ticket visit
www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/events/webin...

#cfga #memorialrecording #warstonelanecemetery

Parrot waxcap fungi. Image credit Ellyn Baker

UK Fungus Day 4/10/25
British Mycological Society aims to inspire preservation of native fungi and improve scientific knowledge of these unique organisms.
Check out Gary Easton blog www.ukfungusday.co.uk/isthataballerinaoraparrot which you can also find on our CfGA website.
#fungi #ukfungusday #CFGA

People identifying inscriptions on headstones in a cemetery

Our Heritage to Inspire project together with Friends of Longden Road Cemetery Shrewsbury is working on identifying unmarked graves of people from the poorer end of Victorian society. With Shropshire Archives volunteers have found names, occupations & family relationships.
#cfga #monumentrecording

Pictures of butterflies as part of a butterfly identification guide

Last 2 days of Big Butterfly Count!

Big Butterfly Count organised by Butterfly Conservation ends Sunday, why not get out there this weekend

Our Butterfly Spotters Guide is a handy ID guide to your local churchyard or other burial ground bit.ly/butterfly_sp...

#CFGA #butterflies #citizenscience

Time to cut & rake long grass!
God's Acre vols have been cutting & raking long flowery grass in local churchyards & volunteer co-ordinator Alex has scythed outside our office the Sastak building
Thanks to our landlords for letting us manage the area as a meadow
#CFGA #godsacrevolunteers #scything

Robin by a headstone in a churchyard

Article by Laura Parker featuring Caring for God's Acre in Country Life - The life that thrives among the dead: How wildlife finds a home in the graveyards and churchyards of Britain the work by Caring for God's Acre.
www.countrylife.co.uk/.../the-life....

#CFGA #CountryLife #nature #environment

False blister beetle on a ox-eye daisy in a cemetery managed for wildlife

This week is @insectweek run by @royentsoc and your local burial ground is a great place to #standtallforthesmall and see how many of the UK's 24,000 insect species you can spot, like this Oedemeridae (false blister beetle).

#cfga #nature #environment #insectweek #beetle

Headstones in a flowery churchyard

Thank you everyone who took part in Love your Burial Ground Week/Churches Count on Nature 2025!

Nature spotting records are coming in thick and fast from over 400 registered events across the country

#CFGA #LoveYourBurialGroundWeek #ChurchesCountOnNature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

Friday's Love your Burial Ground Week/Churches Count on Nature webinar is Open to All–challenges & opportunities for churchyard accessibility

Link will be sent, or requested at enquiries@cfga.org.uk

#cfga #loveyourburialgroundweek #churchescountonnature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

Thursday's Love your Burial Ground Week/Churches Count on Nature 2025 webinar is Here be dragons-amphibians & reptiles in burial grounds

Request link to listen to end of June at enquiries@cfga.org.uk

#CFGA #LoveYourBurialGroundWeek #ChurchesCountOnNature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

Wednesday's Churches Count on Nature2025 webinar is On the ground – practical conservation management in 2 churchyards

A link will be sent if you registered, or request at enquiries@cfga.org.uk

#CFGA #LoveYourBurialGroundWeek #ChurchesCountOnNature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

Tuesday's ARochaUK's webinar Eco Churches count on nature! How Eco Churches are taking action for nature year-round

Link to listen until the end of June can be sent if requested enquiries@cfga.org.uk

#cfga #loveyourburialgroundweek #churchescountonnature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

Please send us your Love your Burial Ground Week/ Churches Count on Nature 2025 photographs

Don't forget you need permission for photographs including people, and send them to enquiries@cfga.org.uk

#CFGA #LoveYourBurialGroundWeek #ChurchesCountOnNature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

Monday's webinar People and Nature – 5 Steps to Churchyard & other burial ground management

A link to listen until end June will be sent to everyone who registered or requested enquiries@cfga.org.uk

#cfga #loveyourburialgroundweek #churchescountonnature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

Why not look at our map at bit.ly/cfga-events-2025 to see if there is a nature count event near you?

From Newcastle to Plymouth, East and West there are opportunities to join in wildlife recording.

#CFGA #LoveYourBurialGroundWeek #ChurchesCountOnNature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

Don't forget to register for our Love your Burial Ground Week/Churches Count on Nature 2025 webinars next week

www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/webinars-summer-2025/

#CFGA #LoveYourBurialGroundWeek #ChurchesCountOnNature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk #nature #environment

Swifts are well named!
If you see swifts or hear their screaming call but can't photograph them, log them on the swift mapper app bit.ly/swift-mapper or record & upload to iNaturalist at ChurchesCountonNature2025
#CFGA #ChurchesCountOnNature #arochauk @churchofengland.org @churchinwales.bsky.social

Starter Guide to burial ground wildlife and heritage

Register your Love your Burial Ground Week/Churches Count on Nature 2025 event by 23rd May to guarantee receipt of FREE printed resources!
www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/get-involved/event-register-25/
#CFGA #LoveYourBurialGroundWeek #ChurchesCountOnNature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

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#acpf #cfga #foin #fourrages #luzerne #souffre #lait #Lactanet #CQPF

Slow worms found under a reptile mat in a churchyard

Slow-worms are harder to spot than other reptiles as they stay undercover
Visit www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/looking-for-slow.../ to find out more about reptile mats
#CFGA #LoveYourBurialGroundWeek #ChurchesCountOnNature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk #nationalfederationofcemeteryfriends