Category: Memorandum

The Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project has been going for two years now, but the idea of such a group to help take care of the main cemetery in the Sid Valley has been around for much longer. In a piece from 2020 looking at managing […]

It’s been a few months since the last newsletter [see Late summer 2025 newsletter] and with the end of the year almost upon us, it seems a good time to look back on what the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project has been up to. As always, […]

Earlier this week, the Town Council Environment Cttee met on Monday 8th December to consider several reports from the Sid Valley’s various volunteer groups – to hear about any issues the committee might be able to help with and to offer any practical ways forward. The Cherishing […]

There are some great, inspiring resources available online for any aspiring project cherishing its local cemeteries. As the Caring For God’s Acre website points out, there are over 25,000 burial grounds across the UK, ranging from small rural medieval churchyards to large Victorian city cemeteries, spanning different cultures, religions and centuries […]

It was at the Vision Group for Sidmouth’s AGM that the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project gave their 2025 Annual Report – which is published here in full: CHERISHING SIDMOUTH CEMETERIES – ANNUAL REPORT 2025 The Cherishing Sidmouth Cemetery Volunteers have been working at the cemetery […]

Over the last two years since their inception, the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries volunteers have started sorting out the several ornamental beds at Sidmouth Cemetery, with the much-appreciated council horticultural officer Paul Fealey giving both plants and practical guidance as to how and where they should […]

It was back in the gloom of February last year that the Sidmouth Scouts lent a hand at Sidmouth Cemetery – and an excellent job they did. They have been back again!  Last Saturday a group of hearty Scout Explorers from the First Sid Vale Scouts not […]

The very special Connaught Gardens in Sidmouth is one of East Devon’s Green Flag spaces. And as you might know, the Green Flag Award is “the benchmark international standard for publicly accessible parks and green spaces in the United Kingdom and around the world”. These make up some of the […]

The Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries volunteers have been busy clearing more graves in the older part of Sidmouth Cemetery – which has necessitated also lots of clearing brambles at the Cemetery. But just because an area is ‘older’ does not mean to say that there are not […]

The volunteers of the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries have been busy hacking away at the brambles on the older part [or, Area 3 on the management plan] of the main cemetery. Firstly, this work is revealing hidden gravestones. As working party member Amanda O’Carroll says: “Two […]