Volunteer session milestone

Today’s Working Morning was the 100th volunteers’ work session at the cemetery since the formation of the Friends group. Regular monthly events began in April 2010 and have taken place every single month since then. In addition, four specially arranged...

Great British Spring Clean event cancelled

Due to the adverse weather conditions, we have decided to cancel our planned litter pick this Sunday morning (4th March). It is unlikely that we would be able to even see the litter, let alone collect it! Instead, why not come along to our next scheduled Working...

Good turnout on cold, wet and windy Working Morning

The wintry weather did not deter a hardy bunch of volunteers at today’s monthly Working Morning. Among the group were another two first-time helpers, Ruth and Vicky. They bring to four the number of debutants in the last three months. Final tidying up was done...

Wildlife Corner work completed

The ‘installation phase’  of our Wildlife Corner project has been completed. Volunteers from The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) finished cultivating the area and then planted hundreds of young plants on Thursday. If the new plants have a good spring and...

Pickering grave cleaning

In an action-packed day at the cemetery, as well as the Wildlife Corner project being commenced, we also saw further stone cleaning on the Pickering grave. Our friends from Victoria Cross Trust and Stone Revival continued their work on the memorial to William and...

Wildlife Corner underway

Yesterday The Conservation Volunteers – TCV began their work on transforming the sorely neglected south western extremity of Hyde Park Cemetery into a wildlife friendly corner. Helped by Andy, Nigel and Richard from Friends of Hyde Park Cemetery, the team had a...