To mark his 70th birthday, Norwich man Paul Coleman did not have a party or eat a cake – instead he ran 70km to raise £7,000 for a development project in West Africa.
Two hundred and five Festival Angel volunteers spent a week at Bramham Park, North Leeds as part of the welfare support at Leeds Festival.
Volunteers at a Cornwall church have turned their neglected village churchyard into a thriving patch for crops, flowers and wildlife, reports churchofengland.org Nature-loving locals can visit the grounds of St Michael's Church, Landrake, and see hedgehogs, slow worms, the occasional smooth snake, finches, song thrushes and more – and from…
Top garden designer, Sarah Eberle, is set to redesign Liverpool’s Bright Park, situated opposite Ken Dodd’s home. The theme of the design will be the well-known Psalm 23, ‘The Lord is my Shepherd’. The six-acre park is currently overseen by Liverpool Lighthouse. Dr Tani Omideyi, chairman of Liverpool Lighthouse, said,…
A CofE initiative funding additional clergy posts has helped resource a new afternoon church in Burnley ...
It might be the UK’s “unhappiest place to live” according to a 2022 survey1, but God hasn’t given up on Rotherham, say local residents and Church Mission Society partners. They are bringing hope to people who are struggling in this once-prosperous town through an innovative “social supermarket” based at Rotherham…
An urban church community in Sheffield has developed an abandoned patch of church land into a thriving garden, teeming with wildlife and benefitting the locals
An Essex-based mental health charity aiming to make therapeutic gardening accessible across the UK with valuable training. For the past two decades Trust Links, who operate the Growing Together therapeutic gardening project across Essex, has seen the positive impacts of therapeutic gardening on individuals with mental health difficulties. From nurturing…
Fran Rogers does not consider herself particularly churchy or religious. But when she arrived in the village of Pett in East Sussex 10 years ago she was immediately drawn to a funny little fading “shed” on the nearby beach, reports churchofengland.org. She discovered it was a small chapel, formerly a…