This month we are focusing our attention on Caring for God’s Creation by renewing our relationship with the environment. In our call to be good stewards of the planet, our churchyards can play their own part.
Churches Count on Nature 2025 is coming up from the 7th to the 15th of June. Churches Count on Nature is part of Love Your Burial Ground Week, focusing on the brilliant wildlife to be found in churchyards and chapel yards.
Churches Count on Nature is a joint initiative promoted by Caring for God ’s Acre, A Rocha UK, the Church of England and the Church in Wales. The count aims to bring people together to discover the wildlife in their local church yard. Participants are encouraged to record the species they find, and their results will be collated onto the Beautiful Burial Ground portal within the National Biodiversity Network (NBN), a nationwide database of wildlife in the UK.
If you are a church community with registered interest in the upcoming Churchyard Biodiversity and Heritage Project, this is an early opportunity to engage your communities too. In previous years, churches taking part have got local schools, as well as Beavers, Brownies and Scout groups involved with the count.