by Rachel Westwood.
Activities for Christmas
There are lots of things we can enjoy over Christmas and New Year to help us connect with and enjoy nature. Here are a few suggestions and resources 12 Days Wild is the Wildlife Trust’s festive nature challenge, encouraging us to do one wild thing a day from the 25th December to the 5th January each year.
Wild acts could be little things to help nature - like recycling your Christmas tree or feeding the birds – or ways to connect to the natural world, like trying stargazing. or ways to connect to the natural world, like trying stargazing. Sign up to receive a digital pack to help you to take part. 12 Days Wild | The Wildlife Trusts
There are also lots of information and activity sheets available from https://www.wildlifewatch.org.uk/activities
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We are proud to say that we have achieved the ‘Silver’ award level of the A’Rocha scheme. We intend to build on this and achieve Gold by recycling more, encouraging our church members and other churches to follow environmentally sensitive policies, and looking after our site (the churchyard) to promote ecological diversity and the wellbeing of the natural world. As part of this, we are thrilled to say that we were able to host the YCCN pilgrimage to the Glasgow Climate
Here’s our newly planted native (organic!) Yew hedge and our bee-friendly wildflower area which is showing good results!Summit!
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We have “recycling” boxes in the entrance to the Church and Hall where you can leave old mobile phones, stamps, spectacles and printer cartridges! These can often be sold to raise funds for the needy or passed to charities who can use them. We also can help with the recycling of many other things - contact us if you would like to help our Recycling efforts as we do need a new Coordinator!
We also try to feed the birds, encourage native wildflowers to grow in our grounds, and welcome people to use our space to relax - but please do so responsibly and do not leave litter! That’s what the bins and recycling boxes are for.