WORKING SESSIONS AT THE CEMETERY
Official working sessions are Saturday afternoons, from 13.30-16.00. Some members also work on other days but this is at their own risk. At an official work session all members are covered by insurance and there will be a committee member there with a first aid kit, just in case.
You are welcome to turn up for these sessions and join us. You can park near the Long Lane entrance, there's room for several cars alongside the road. You can also park on Loxley Road if you are working in the area around the chapel. Please take care not to block the big iron gates. You need to sign in for each session - look for the yellow Landrover to find Jane, our Head of Volunteering, who will have the sign-in sheet. Please also read our check-list.
- What to bring: we have some tools we can lend to volunteers, but it is useful if you can bring your own - secateurs and tough gardening gloves to deal with the nettles and brambles are a necessity. A hand fork is useful to dig out weeds and a rake to gather stuff together are also useful. If you have a strimmer or similar please bring it along to cut the grass in the spring and summer (cordless - no power supply is available up there).
- Green waste disposal: we have a number of large builders' bags which we fill with the cut down vegetation. These can then be taken to the bottom corner of the cemetery by Long Lane, just above the wall separating the cemetery from Loxley Nursery. There is a large pile of green waste - just add yours here. Green waste from the chapel area is stored below the graveyard, just ask a volunteer to show you.
- Other waste: non-green waste must be removed please, and piled separately or put into sacks for disposal. You will probably find lots of plastic waste from wreaths, flowers, ornaments etc. which cannot be recycled with the green waste. You are also likely to find broken glass, so please be careful. This all needs to be bagged separately for disposal.
- What to wear: sturdy footwear and protective/gardening gloves. Be prepared for cold and wet weather - there's very little shelter up there!
If you have any questions please contact Jane Pratt who is our Head of Volunteering: loxleytreasurer1@gmail.com.
Before and after photos: 2021 (note the red granite gravestone in both photos)
