Caring for Gods Acre in the Shropshire Hills

Conference: The importance of burial grounds for nature.

Programme:

09.15 Doors open /tea/coffee/pastries
10.00 Oliver Goode, Caring for God’s Acre Trustee & The Venerable Dr Fiona Gibson, Archdeacon of Ludlow: Welcome
10.10 Harriet Carty, Caring for God’s Acre: A Whistle-stop History
10.30 Chris Knapman, Ancient Yew Group: Have I Got Yews for You!
11.15 George Peterken OBE, ecologist: Churchyard Natural History and Vegetation
12.00 Q&A
12.15 Lunch, stalls, visit the Ancient Yew in Norbury churchyard
1.15 Oliver Goode: Welcome back
1.20 Stefan Buczacki, biographer, novelist and broadcaster: Earth to Earth – churchyard fungi, bryophytes, lichens
2.00 Bat Conservation Trust: Bats in Churches and other batty business
2.40 Stuart Edmonds, Shropshire Mammal Group: Havens for Small Mammals
3.00 Three Exemplar Sites from the volunteers caring for them
3.30 Kirsty Stevens, Caring for God’s Acre: Opening the Ark
3.50 Harriet Carty, Caring for God’s Acre: Going Forward
4.15 Q&A close

Booking essential! This is a free event and includes lunch but a donation of £25 will ensure the Middle Marches Community Land Trust can hold events like this again in future. 

Book your place through: conference@middlemarchescommunitylandtrust.org.uk

The conference is being supported by the Shropshire Hills Landscape Trust through their Conservation Fund.