Bumblebees like much cooler conditions than we are currently experiencing How can we help? Water flowering nectar-producing plants Choose drought-tolerant, bee-friendly plants: salvia, catmint, verbena, marjoram Even a few nectar-rich flowers help bumblebees on hot days #bumblebeeconservationtrust

In the hot dry weather many are putting out shallow bowls of water in gardens to benefit wildlife. Could you do the same in your local churchyard in a shady place? Ponds are unsuitable for churchyards but a container with shallow edges or a ramp so small mammals can climb out can be helpful. #CFGA

What did I hear? Crickets Walking in a churchyard you might wonder where that idiom came from as the sound of crickets assails your ears! Producing one of the quintessential sounds of summer crickets are better able than more delicate insects to tolerate hot dry conditions #CFGA #natureinchurchyards

It's so hot and dry our grass has been cut early. Conservation Volunteer Manager Alex has scythed the meadow at our office already. Thee yellow rattle sowed last year has taken really and lady's bedstraw and birds foot trefoil have been very floriferous this year. #CFGA #meadows #scything

Caring for God's Acre on Countryfile! Biodiversity Data Manager Hannah on Countryside programme Fifty Years of the Viking Way Sun 28 June talking about Love your Burial Ground Week & the value of biological recording On iPlayer Hannah is at 54 mins 54 secs #CFGA #countryfile #loveyourburialground

First of all a huge THANK YOU to everyone who took part in Love your Burial Ground Week with Churches Count on Nature 2026 We have been delighted with how busy and productive you have all been with 439 events registered and listed on our website Thank you for your support from the CfGA team

And that's a wrap! Churches Count on Nature webinar series is finished for the year Nature Counts are still on this weekend www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/view/love-your-burial-ground-churches-count-on-nature-national-cemeteries-week-events-2026/ to find what's on near you #CFGA #ChurchesCountOnNature

Towns and cities feature in Fri 12 June webinar looking the role of urban churchyards & burial grounds as relatively undisturbed, protected green space for wildlife Register at www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/events/webinars/gods-green-spaces #CFGA #ChurchesCountOnNature #webinars #urbanwildlife

Thur 11 June the 4th webinar in our Churches Count on Nature series looks at why churchyards are a significant lichen habitat. Register your FREE place www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/events/webin... If you can't attend in person catch up at a time to suit #CFGA #ChurchesCountOnNature #lichen #webinars

Churches Count on Nature FREE webinar Wed 10 June Making our Churchyards a Home for Butterflies Register at www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/events/webinars/making-our-burial-grounds-a-home-for-butterflies/ if you miss it live can catch up via the link #CFGA #ChurchesCountOnNature #butterflyconservation

FREE Churches Count on Nature webinar Tue 9 June 12-1pm Children in Churchyards Creative ideas to engage children with history & biodiversity in burial grounds. Practical, affordable, messy…and fun! Register at bit.ly/webinars-chu... #CFGA #ChurchesCountOnNature #webinars

FREE Churches Count on Nature webinar Mon 8th June 12-1pm Sharing Stories to Grow Hope by Operation Noah, local groups making a difference for biodiversity & climate on church land www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/events/webinars/sharing-stories-to-grow-hope #CFGA #OperationNoah #ChurchesCountOnNature

Love your Burial Ground Week with Churches Count on Nature is nearly here! As well as partners Church of England Church in Wales & A Rocha UK we are thrilled to share 6-14 June with National Cemeteries Week & Climate Coalition's Great Big Green Week #CFGA #loveyourburialground #ChurchesCountOnNature

Our FREE webinar A Beginner's Guide to iNaturalist - Why Record? is open to all comers. Register at www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/events/webin... Live on Tuesday 26th May 12 - 1pm or you can be sent the link to catch the webinar up to a week later. #CFGA #ChurchesCountOnNature #inaturalist #webinars

Our popular series of webinars Churches Count on Nature launches Tue 26 May 12-1pm with a session Beginner's Guide to iNaturalist - Why Record? Book a free place www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/.../beginners-guide.../ Mon 8-Fri 12June webinars visit www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/webinars-summer-26/

Alex just can't stop running! Alex Logan ran the London Marathon in an impressive 2 hrs 46 raising money for God's Acre Volunteers who visit Shropshire, North Herefordshire & Powys burial grounds to support biodiversity www.gofundme.com/.../london-m.... #CFGA #londonmarathon #conservationvolunteers

Cowslips at our Caring for God's Acre office We are grateful to our landlords Sastak who have left an area outside our office unmown for us to manage as a meadow, leading to this beautiful display of cowslips. #CFGA #wildflowermeadow

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...

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place

theguardian.com

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