Carry on helping our pollinators
No Mow May has finished, but if we can, it's important to carry on helping our bees and butterflies and other pollinators. Leaving a patch of lawn unmowed or letting clover grow can be a real help, as is cultivating flowers that pollinators love - here are some examples.
Hebe is always a favourite and this bee has been working hard to gather pollen.
There's also still time to take part in 30 days wildhttps://www.wildlifetrusts.org/30dayswild - spending time in nature and exploring nature in our gardens and other green spaces. This is a rather tired Greater Spotted Woodpecker parent feeding one of its fledglings.
Balsall Common Festival is on Saturday 21 June in Lavender Hall Park from 3-8pm. We're having a stall offering free environmentally themed crafts and activities for kids - being part of the community and raising awareness about St Peter's and environmental issues.
We'd still welcome volunteers to help with the stall - particularly for an hour later in the afternoon - 4 or 5 o'clock.
Come and visit our stall at the Festival : there'll be a range of crafts and activities with an environmental theme including face painting, making wind chimes, making a bug hotel, and planting seeds. There's also chocolate!
A big thank you to all those who have already volunteered - very much appreciated!
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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.