Kemble Church agreed to register as an Eco Church in October 2022. We completed the survey on the A Rocha EcoChurch site and identified areas of strength (worship and teaching) and areas for development (all the rest).
We began with some simple actions, such as a regular item in Parish News and participation in the Love Your Burial Ground Week with Churches Count on Nature in June, when we tried to spot and identify the many species which live in our churchyard. We observed and named 45 plant species and 11 animal species in the churchyard, as well as various flying insects which didn’t wait to be identified.
We regularly take part in No Mow May and have agreed a cutting regime with the Parish Council, which will leave areas of the churchyard uncut until late summer. 