NFCF National Cemeteries Week 2023
3rd to 11th June, 2023
Please follow links to our member’s sites for further information on events held during National Cemeteries Week in 2023.
Participants…
- Miriam Marson, Willesden Jewish Cemetery
Monday 5th June to Sunday 11th June. Love Your Burial Ground Week, a chance to explore the nature and wildlife of the cemetery. - John Tiffney, Friends of St John Baptist Churchyard, Cirencester
Monday 5th June, school visit in morning to study flora, fauna, trees and history of churchyard; Wednesday 7th June from 10am, nursery school visit, 1pm Churchyard blessing followed by picnic, 2pm visit by junior school ‘eco-warriors’ to explore the churchyard. - Ann Wilkingson, Friends of Halifax Cemetery
Open Day on Sunday 4th June - Billy and Val, Friends of Southampton Cemetery
‘You Swallowed What?!’ walk on Sunday 11th June at 2pm - Lynda Kitching, Friends of Beckett Street Cemetery, Leeds
Cemetery tour on Saturday 3rd June - Andrew Heaton, Dockyard Graveyard Trust, Oakworth, West Yorkshire
Open Day on Saturday 10th June - Jeffrey Hart, Friends of Nunhead Cemetery, London
Practical conservation workday on site, Sunday 4th June,10.00am - 5pm; Opening of sculpture exhibition by Urte Janus in Anglican Chapel, Tuesday 6th June; Woodland Walk with discussion on trees in cemetery, Sunday 11th June, 2pm-3.30pm - Teresa Verney-Brookes, The Friends of Reading Old Cemetery
Practical conservation work party session and various family-based activities and walkswildlife related guided walks on Sunday 4th June, 2pm-4.30pm - Geoffrey Thurley, Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, London
Guided walk of both cemeteries, Saturday 3rd June at 2.30pm, starting from the Ladywell gate. - Margaret Carpenter, Friends of Bedford Cemetery
Guided ‘Sally Red Shoes’ walk on Sunday 11th June at 2pm to 4pm - Pete Kilvert, Friends of Salford Cemeteries Trust, Manchester
Walkabout at Peel Green Cemetery, Tuesday 6th June at 1pm, meet at Crematorium - Claire Slack, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London
Waking the Dead: Flash Fiction Workshop, Saturday 3rd June at 1 to 4pm; Bushcraft and Wild Food Day, Sunday 4th June at 10am to 5pm; Bat Walk, Friday 9th June at 8.30pm to 10.30pm - Marlene Downey, Friends of St Helens Cemetery
Heritage Walking Tour, Sunday 4th June at 11am - John Barker, The Friends of Farsley Rehoboth Burial Ground
Facilities for tours and visitors on 4th, 6th and 9th June from 12 midday to 5pm, evening tours on 6th June - Catherine Voyce, Barkby Road Cemetery, Leicester
Open Day, Saturday 3rd June - Robert Stephenson, The Friends of Brompton Cemetery
Fantastic Plants and Their Folklore tour with Roy Vickery on 3rd June at 2.30pm. General tours of the cemetery on 4th and 11th June at 2pm: - Erich Wagner, Friends of Hampstead Cemetery
Tour of cemetery on Sunday 11th June at 1.50pm, see website for booking link - John Moffat, Friends of Flaybrick, Birkenhead
Health and Wellbeing Walk emphasising known benefits of proximity to trees for early onset dementia sufferers, further details on website. - Caroline Brown, Friends of West Norwood Cemetery
Saturday 3rd June, tour of main monuments; Sunday 4th June, visit to this first Gothic Cemetery; Wednesday 7th June, tour of the many Dickens’ contemporaries at this cemetery; 11th June, guided visit to magnificent Greek Enclosure.