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The next voluntary St James' Church Christleton Working Party will be on the morning of Saturday 7th February 2026 from 10.30am to 12.30pm.

Cakes/snacks will be available during the morning. If you have access to your own tools or you can offer spare equipment to others, then please bring these with you as they will be most welcome.

If you know anybody else who may be interested please let them know or bring them along too! They will be most welcome - it is an opportunity for fellowship and an opportunity to maybe meet new people, and to help with looking after St James' Churchyard. We are so thankful for any help we receive.

If you would like to know more then please contact:
Parish mobile Tel: 07487642912 or any members of the team
Email: office@stjameschristleton.org.uk or just pop along on Saturday. If the weather turns on us then it …

Do look out for the Cinnabar Moth and Catepillars of which we counted 28 on Saturday - ON ONE Ragwort plant!(photo credit: Jonathan Gilliatt)

Do come and give us a hand if you can. If you know anybody else who would like to volunteer some time to this please do pass them these details. Working Parties are the 1st Saturdays of each month from 10.30am.

If you have access to your own gardening tools by all means bring them along. Likewise, if church cleaning also bring any cleaning equipment / cloths etc if you have access.

Snacks are always available. If you need to contact for more information please email the PCC Secretary Marj Keech or Churchwardens. Dates should also be in the calendar available via the "Whats on" page on the St James' Church website.

Thankyou,

Churchwardens

Remaining Churchyard Working Party dates for 2025 @ St James' Church, Christleton

7th June
5th July
2nd August
6th September
4th October
1st November
6th December/ Or Church cleaning

Do come and give us a hand if you can. If you know anybody else who would like to volunteer some time to this please do pass them these details. Working Parties are the 1st Saturdays of each month from 10.30am.

If you have access to your own gardening tools by all means bring them along. Likewise, if church cleaning also bring any cleaning equipment / cloths etc if you have access.

Snacks are always available. If you need to contact for more information please email the PCC Secretary Marj Keech or Churchwardens. Dates should also be in the calendar available via the "Whats on" page on the St James' Church website.

Thankyou,

Churchwardens

Christmas wreaths and decorations
 
Please remove all above items from graves by Friday 7th February.
 
After that date they will be removed by church volunteers.
 
The Church Wardens.

 St James' Church welcomes everyone to enjoy the churchyard. You are most welcome to bring your four-legged friends with you! We believe everyone (and their pets)  should be able to experience the beauty of the rolling Cheshire countryside, and enjoy the majesty of the building of St James' church together with the  churchyard  to enable those who seek solace or a time for personal contemplation or prayer the opportunity to do so. However, we must ask that you keep your accompanying four-legged friends on a leash at all times, please. Sadly,there have been one or two occasions of dogs causing distress to others within the churchyard. We also must remind you that we cannot under any circumstances accept dog fouling within the churchyard grounds. As with all churchyards they are consecrated areas of land. We would also like to remind you that animal waste is highly dangerous and poses a …

At long last our summer appears to have arrived, providing ample opportunities to enjoy long summer days with glasses of bubbly and sizzling barbecues. Sounds good doesn't it? Unfortunately, other things can and do interrupt this glorious picture such as gardening and keeping gardens in check - the life of a churchyard is no exception. St James' Church is blessed to have a few acres of green space which sadly is rapidly becoming rarer in our world.

Did you know that the hedgerows throughout Britain created over thousands of years signified livestock barriers & property boundries up and down the land and form rich habitats for many varieties of flora and fauna? These hedgerows also show off an unrivalled landscape across Britain which entice not only thousands of species of insects, and other wildlife and plants but they also posess extremely powerful naturally occurring properties. If managed correctly these hedgerows  could potentially provide some of the  vital defences to help ward off the effects of climate change especially carbon capture and rewilding (which is what we are working on in our church grounds at St James').

It is claimed by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology that Britain has 400,000km of historic hedges - enough to go around the globe 10 times!

When available you could arrange a tower climb with our Tower Bell Captain …

Please remove any Christmas ornaments (and other non-compliant artefacts) placed on graves no later than the 2 Feb. This is to ensure we are compliant with the churchyard regulations as posted on the noticeboards and found here https://www.chester.anglican.org/support-services/churches/churchyards/churchyard-regulations-2007 (specifically sections 14 & 15 subsection 5).

Any non-compliant artefacts still on graves post 2 Feb will be removed and disposed of.

Thank you in advance.

Churchwardens.

There will be no green waste collection until March 2024.

Please take your waste home. Do not use the black bin for green waste.

Thank-you.

The Church Wardens