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Gwent Living Churchyards Project - Useful
information and downloads
What do I do to care for my living churchyard?
A series of information sheets (taken from the project
newsletter) on ‘wildlife friendly’ churchyard care, to download:
‘Wildlife friendly’ churchyard care
Creating a Basic
Churchyard Management Plan
Grassland
Birds
Reptiles
Back copies of ‘Living Churchyards’, the
newsletter of
Gwent Living Churchyards Project, to download:
Edition 1 Summer 2008
Edition 2
Winter 2009
Edition 3
Summer 2009
Edition 4
Winter 2009/10
Edition 5
Summer 2010
Edition 6
Autumn/Winter 2010
Churchyard Signs & Information Packs - We have
a few spare copies of our A4 Gwent Living Churchyards Sign and Caring
for God’s Acre Churchyard Information Pack – please contact Rebecca at
rprice@gwentwildlife.org
if you would like a copy.
Hunt the Daisy – Education Pack - information encouraging
children to discover the world of nature in churchyards and cemeteries
(now out of print, produced by the Living Churchyard & Cemetery Project,
The Arthur Rank Centre) – email
rprice@gwentwildlife.org
if you’d like to borrow a copy.
Useful churchyard leaflets for download:
The Venerable Yews
of Bettws Newydd Churchyard
Wye Valley Churchyards
(produced by CFGA)
St Illtyds Churchyard Flora
Monmouth Cemetery leaflets
(biodiversity & history)
Churchyard wildlife
sightings log sheet
Possible Grant Sources
Sustainable Funding Cymru: Look for funding
opportunities on the website of Sustainable Funding Cymru, home of the
Wales Funding Portal – a new one-stop shop for funding advice and
opportunities.
www.sustainablefundingcymru.org.uk
Local Authorities: Also keep an eye out for news of
small grants which may be operated by your local authority – for example
Monmouthshire County Council’s Annual Community Environmental Grants
Programme:
http://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?categoryID=871&documentID=1173
Useful contacts and links for further advice on
wildlife and churchyards:
Your Local Wildlife Trust – Gwent Wildlife Trust is
one of 47 Local Wildlife Trusts across the UK and some host Local Living
Churchyard Projects
http://www.gwentwildlife.org/
Your Local Authority Ecologist/Biodiversity Officer
See your relevant local authority website
Alliance or Religions and Conservation (ARC) – has a Living Churchyards
Page with details of local living churchyard projects.
http://www.arcworld.org/projects.asp?projectID=271
Amphibian and reptile conservation
http://www.arc-trust.org/
Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol
http://www.arnosvale.org.uk/
Bats in Churchyards - available from The Bat
Conservation Trust
http://www.bats.org.uk/pages/bats_in_churches.html
Buglife
http://www.buglife.org.uk/
British Lichen Society (produce Churchyard Lichens
leaflet)
http://www.thebls.org.uk/content/chlich.html
Butterfly Conservation
http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/
Caring for God’s Acre – an independent charity based
in Leominster promoting the conservation of churchyards, cemeteries and
burial grounds.
http://www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/
Churchyard Lichens – information available from The
British Lichen Society
http://www.thebls.org.uk/content/chlich.html
Church in Wales
http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/index_e.php
Churches Tourism Network Wales
http://www.ctnw.co.uk/
Countryside Council for Wales (CCW)
http://www.ccw.gov.uk/
Drystone Walling Association (Drystone walls around
churchyards leaflet)
http://www.dswa.org.uk/index.asp
Gwent Fungus Group
http://www.gwentfungusgroup.org.uk/index.html
Gwent Ornithological Society
http://www.gwentbirds.org.uk/
Norfolk Wildlife Trust – useful info on undertaking
wildlife surveys
http://www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/surveys.aspx
South East Wales Biological Records Centre (SEWBReC)
http://www.sewbrec.org.uk/
St David’s, Little Dewchurch, Herefordshire
http://www.stdavidslittledewchurch.org.uk/churchyard.html
The United Reformed Church, Wales
http://www2.urc-wales.org.uk
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