Gwent’s Living Churchyards Project - what we can offer
 

 Advice on how to incorporate areas for wildlife into your churchyard :

• Assistance with writing management and maintenance plans

• Assistance in placing bids for funding

• Land Management advice for wildlife

Providing local provenance Native Wildflower Seed :

• Locally harvested wildflower seed from Gwent Wildlife Trust

Learning more about wildlife and how to identify it :

• Access to wildlife ID training days & advice from GWT staff

• Contact details for local experts

Training in Traditional Management Skills :

• Training days including drystone walling, hedgelaying

Help with learning more about the cultural & social heritage of churchyards :

• Mapping gravestones, researching preaching crosses, churchyard geology

Involving Communities ;

• Help with organising churchyard community events – e.g. hay making days

• Links to resources for education/school groups

• Events – tours to other churchyards, encouraging talks for the group

Help with developing Churchyard Interpretation : 

• Help with developing interpretation boards & leaflets for visitors

• Advice on design, content & costings

• Ensuring rights of way are accessible

Contacts for contractors & local experts :

• Contact details to aid researching the churchyard’s built and social history

• Contacts for local hedge layers, dry stone wallers & wildlife experts & groups

Printed Resources :

• Access to our Living Churchyards newsletter and information pack

• Other wildlife identification/management resources e.g. how to build bird boxes, manage a meadow area, survey for lichens

If you know of a churchyard in Gwent with potential wildlife appeal, would like to learn more or are keen to develop a living churchyards group in your area please contact:

Rebecca Price    Living Churchyards Project Officer      01600 740358      rprice@gwentwildlife.org

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