This is a free community event in Love Your Burial Ground Week & The Great Big Green Week for families, to raise awareness of our local wildlife and to encourage everyone to use and enjoy the churchyard, respectfully. For noisier recreation, please use the playground opposite the Church.

Join the Citizen Science project Churches Count on Nature to survey the wildlife in the Churchyard, using pen & paper, camera, sound recording and identification books, and/or iNaturalist app and Merlin app. (There are instructions for using iNaturalist app available as a PDF download, link below.) The results will be collated and added to the National Biodiversity Network atlas. This is similar to the Big Garden Bird Watch, but covers birds, animals, insects, plants.

You are most welcome to come and join in, or just come and sit and chat.

* Fun Minibeast Hunt for the youngsters, with worksheets
* Tea & Cake Stall or bring your own picnic
* Build a Bug Hotel
* Install new Bird Feeders
* Measure our Yew Tree
* Give & Take Stall - please bring your good quality unwanted items inc clothes to the Church before the event. Take away with you anything that you would like. Recycling at its very best!
* Learn about Eco Church, and how we have just won our Bronze Award - the first Church in our Benefice to do so
* Inside the Church if the weather is wet

Please walk or cycle to this picnic if you are able or join our Eco Charlton Lift Share group.

Helpers - if you would like to help, please contact Clare Penny on 07555 298548. We need:
* Cakes for Cake Stall and helper to serve
* Materials to build the bug hotel - broken terracotta, twigs, no plastic please

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