Webinars
Churches Count on Nature will also see a series of webinars
from leading conservationists, scientists, and experts. Topics include tree
management, ecology and biology record management guidance, and outdoor worship
support. Registration for the webinars has already begun on the Church of
England’s website: www.churchofengland.org/about/environment-and-climate-change/webinars-land-and-nature-churches-count-nature-week.
Monday 7th June, 12.00 noon to 1.00pm:
Nature and
Climate, twin crises, shared solutions
Speaker: Pete Brotherton, Director of Science,
Natural England, and Diocesan Environment Officer, Peterborough Diocese.
Monday 7th June 4.00pm - 5.00pm: Forest
Church
Speakers: Cate Williams is Environmental
Engagement Officer for Gloucester Diocese, a Forest Church facilitator and
author of the Grove booklet on Forest Church. Rachel Summers is the
author of multiple resources including Wild Advent, Wild Lent and Wild Worship.
She is a Forest School practitioner and trainer, Forest Church facilitator and
pioneer ordinand.
Monday 7th June 6.00pm - 7.00pm: National
Burial ground Survey
Speaker: Dr Joe Elders, Head of Church Buildings
Strategy, Cathedral and Church Buildings, Church of England
Tuesday 8th June 12.00 noon - 1.00pm: Finding
our faith in trees
Speaker: John Rodwell works as a priest and
ecologist together. He is co-author of 'Creating New Native Woodlands' and
chair of the Land & Biodiversity Group of Diocesan Environmental Officers.
Tuesday 8th June 4.00pm - 5.00pm:
Five steps
to good management of your churchyard or burial ground
Speaker: Andrea Gilpin works for Caring for God’s
Acre and leads on advising people in managing their burial ground, along with
developing and delivering projects. Her background is in ecology.
Wednesday 9th June 12.00 noon - 1.00pm:
Practical
examples from Bristol Diocese of churchyards managed for nature
Speaker: Clare Fussell, the Diocese Environment Officer
for Bristol Diocese is joined by a panel of local church representatives.
Wednesday 9th June 4.00pm - 5.00pm:
Blooming
and beautiful – Flower rich grasslands
Speaker: Andrea Gilpin works for Caring for God’s
Acre and leads on advising people in managing their burial ground, along with
developing and delivering projects. Her background is in ecology.
Wednesday 9th June 6.00pm - 7.00pm: Bats in
churches
Speaker: Claire Boothby is the training and
surveys officer for the Bats in Churches project of which the Church of England
is a partner. She sits within the Bat Conservation Trust and is hoping to get
as many members of the public involved in surveying their churches for bats
over the summer as possible. She’s also working hard to upskill existing
volunteers and professionals within the bat worker sector to specialise in
working with churches to make sure that the sensitivities caused by bats living
in churches are well understood and mitigation measures are realistic and
workable as a result
Thursday 10th June 12.00 noon - 1.00pm: Devon
Living Churchyards project
Speaker: David Curry is the Exeter Diocese
Environmental Adviser (voluntary), manages the Devon Living Churchyards
Project, and is chair of the Devon Churches Green Action Group.
Thursday 10th June 4.00pm - 5.00pm: Eco Church
– Land and Nature
Speakers: Helen Stephens and Andy
Lester from A Rocha UK, who run the Eco Church Programme. Helen is their
Church Relations Manager and Andy is their Head of Conservation
Friday 11th June 12.00 noon - 1.00pm:
A
beginner’s Guide to Biodiversity and Ecology
Speaker: Godfrey Armitage is the Diocesan
Environment Officer for the Diocese of Coventry; he taught Ecology and
Conservation at Warwick University for some years and is a tutor for the
Christian Rural and Environmental Studies (CRES) Certificate.
Friday 11th June 4.00pm:
Biological
recording and the beautiful burial ground project
Speaker: Harriet Carty is the Director of the conservation
charity Caring for God’s Acre. She is an ecologist with experience in land
management for people and wildlife.
