Nearly 80 churches and cemeteries have registered for Love your Burial Ground Week with Churches Count on Nature. From Devon to Northumbria via East and West run nature counts trails talks and more celebrating wildlife in these special places. #cfga #loveyourburialgroundweek #churchescountonnnature

Easter is a beautiful time to enjoy wild daffodils such as this wonderful display at St Michael's Church, Discoed, Powys. #stmichaelsdiscoed #cfga #daffodils

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is a wonderful story and shows the importance of memorial recording to preserve a record of gravestones- work done by an A Level student in 1977 has allowed the resting place of abolitionist Olaudah Equiano's year 3 old daughter Anna Maria Vassa to be found: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Interesting-looking fungus growing from moss atop a tombstone in Doddington churchyard. I took it for dead leaf at first. ObsIdentify says it's Arrhenia spathulata. #KentNature #fungus #fungi @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social

So enjoyed Friday’s @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social conference in time-deep, wondrous Shropshire. Learned lots about biodiversity & creatures in churchyards, their power for engaging communities & restoring the environment (super cute bats & dormice, and remarkable volute pastries, too)

A couple of bugs tapped out of a cypress tree in Doddington Churchyard today: Juniper Shieldbug and the smart red-and-black Corizus hyoscyami. They were also accompanied by a Common Green Shieldbug and a Box Bug. #bugs #truebugs #hemiptera #KentNature @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social

Autumn webinar-Willesden Jewish Cemetery: Stories from the House of Life. Explore the history of this NW London site's Victorian architecture, symbolic traditions, the lives of those buried there & transformation to an education and reflection space. www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/webinars-autumn-2025

Chris Knapman of Ancient Yew Group will give a talk Have I Got Yews for You–Understanding Ancient Yews as part of our online AGM 7pm on Tues 11th November. Free for members, £6 for non-members. Information and link to book www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/events/webinars/agm-and-have-i-got-yews-for-you/

Churchyards are important for fungi, including some of the UK's rarest This webinar will introduce UK fungi and their roles in the natural environment Chris Knowles is a field mycologist and member of his local fungus group He works at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh cataloguing the fungi collection

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

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

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

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

All four nations of the UK are taking part in European Heritage Open Days in September, with free events coming to a cemetery, churchyard or burial ground near you. #heritageopendays #OpenDoors #DrysauAgored #doorsopendays #DOD2025 #LoveHeritageNI #EHOD2025

Some cemetery symbolism you may or may not have seen before from @gravestonesofnewengland on IG “Many early 19th century gravestones feature willow trees as a symbol of mourning. However, this particular stone has a different take on that..

What a fabulous day yesterday? A big thank you to Sally and all the Don Catchment Rivers Trust team for organising today's BioBlitz. Thanks too to all the groups, stall holders and experts who helped to make it such a special event and to everyone who came.

Last call for cutting long grass! If you manage a small lawn or a meadow this is a reminder to cut long grass if you haven't already & remove arisings to reduce fertility and help next year's flowers. Any late flowering plants such as Devil's Bit Scabious, just leave that area to allow them to seed

@caringforgodsacre.bsky.social needs you! They are looking for volunteers to join them in hay raking and gravestone recording. (No experience needed.) Find out more on our website. Just scroll down to the volunteering section. heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/ #volunteering #heritagevolunteering

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

Big Butterfly Count by @savebutterflies.bsky.social from 18 July-10th Aug Your local burial ground is an ideal place to spot butterflies How many will you see in 15 minutes? Download guides from Butterfly Conservation #BigButterflyCount #CitizenScience Thank you Butterfly Conservation for photos

1/2 A great turnout and welcome sunshine for this morning's butterfly survey. Butterflies have made something of a recovery this year and this was reflected at Wardsend with 41 recordings and 11 different species.

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

Are you fascinated by the origins of sports & notable figures? Sun 13 July, Discover the story of Major Harry Gem, co-founder of lawn tennis, during a B'ham tour @ 12 noon. @tennisupdates.bsky.social @wimbledonltc.bsky.social @midlandhistory.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-baske...

"The life that thrives among the dead: How wildlife finds a home in the graveyards and churchyards of Britain" Country Life explores the rich biodiversity located in historic kirkyards that have lain undisturbed by ploughs and weedkiller-free for generations 👇 www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/the-l...

Churchyards are brilliant places for nature AND people. Undisturbed + unimproved, they provide habitat for slow worms, rare lichen, orchids + more. And are free for all. Met amazing ppl for my piece in this week's Country Life. #naturewriting 📷 Getty, Sam Rowley/naturepl.com, Alamy, Jason Bye

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

Over 350 people registered for our webinars during Love Your Burial Ground Week– to watch live or catch up using the recordings for a month. If you missed out, you can see the list here: bit.ly/CCoNwebinars... and there is still time to request the recordings by emailing us on [email protected]

A good day for the Churches Count On Nature event at Doddington Church today. Bees, bugs, beetles, butterflies, >80 plant species, and some work still to do on photos and specimens. @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social

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 [email protected] #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 [email protected] #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 [email protected] #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 [email protected] #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 [email protected] #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 [email protected] #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

Free webinars - Love your Burial Ground Week/Churches Count on Nature 2025 9-13 June Wildlife in burial grounds, reptiles & amphibians, accessible churchyards www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/webinars-summer-2025 #LoveYourBurialGroundWeek #ChurchesCountOnNature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

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