Love Your Burial Ground Week,
Churches Count on Nature and
National Cemeteries Week
for Schools & Youth Groups
If you’re a school or youth group interested in joining this special week by exploring your local churchyard or cemetery, you’ve come to the right place!
We’d love to hear about your activities during the week and send you a celebratory certificate for taking part.
Photo credit: – Bradford Cathedral
Step One – Get Ready!
Before your visit, ensure you have permission and discuss your plans with the clergy, churchwarden, or site manager. They can provide valuable insights and information to enhance your visit. Confirm that your planned activities align with their expectations, and inquire about any potential hazards for your risk assessment.
Step Two – Join In!
This week is all about celebrating these special places, and there are so many ways to join in! Young people can delve into the history, admire memorials, get artistic, let their imaginations soar with creative writing, or go on a wildlife adventure and record the plants and animals they find. The choice is yours!
Please take two minutes to fill out the registration form to receive your pack. You can choose whether you want your event to appear on the map or not.
Resources
If you’re documenting wildlife, you can send your records to wildlife@cfga.org.uk.
Better still, capture images on the day and upload them to our iNaturalist Beautiful Burial Grounds Project.
Watch your records grow online season by season!
iNaturalist not only makes documenting findings enjoyable and straightforward, but also aids in species identification.
Simply join the Beautiful Burial Grounds Project within the app and start submitting your records.
For more information about using iNaturalist visit our webpage.
And see what your records will look like on the map here.
Read how St Matthews used iNaturalist with various children’s groups during last year.
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Reasons to involve your school, cubs & Brownies or youth group….
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“We had two classes of Year 3,4,& 5 children, it was wet but they really enjoyed finding and recording plants, trees, insects and birds.”
“Young people (early teens) getting interested …
They enjoyed shaking trees and finding bugs!”
“Seeing the younger group – primary aged children – be so enthralled by the insect and bugs.”
“We invited local primary school to to do count on Nature, as we have done in previous years, 3 classes over two days, over 80 children.”