Friends of Haslingden Cemetery

06/06/2026

A week today on Saturday 13th our working party takes the form of a Balsam Bashing event, there are a number of similar events taking place along the valley of the Irwell. Just turn up any time from 9.30 and help pull up some of the Balsam menace. Come for half an hour or all morning, it all helps. More information about Balsam and the problems it causes can be found here. It mentions dates in May but disregard that. Thanks

Big Balsam Bash - Protect Our Riverbanks

18/05/2026

Friends of Haslingden Cemetery are part of the Local Community Fund. An amazing 559 people are now supporting our cause helping us raise funds through their regular shopping. To find out more about our project and choose to support us, click here: https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/95195 Thank you

18/04/2026

One of our junior helpers and chief crumpet eater, will be delighted to know that
Warburtons have just awarded us a grant of £400 towards the building of water harvesting and composting bins to enable us to increase the amount we can recycle and eventually produce our own compost. There may also be a little over to spend on extra crumpets, but dont tell her that!

11/04/2026

Thank you to our fantastic band of volunteers who turned up today for our working party and AGM and experienced 4 seasons one day. The event was funded by the Eric Wright Trust with top class catering from our own Andrew Neil Taylor beverage support was provided by Ninja_CoffeeCompany . Claire gave an excellent run down of our achievements of the last year which are far too many to list here. Big thank you to all who support us be it financially, being a volunteer, or being a supportive encouraging friend on Facebook- you are all very much appreciated.

09/04/2026

Had such a lovely day when Andrew and Jackie attended the Raven Croft Community Centre where we had been invited to receive a donation towards our funds. Thank you all for your generosity

Every month the group host a luncheon and all proceeds are given to local charities.

We enjoyed a delicious lunch and then Andrew gave an update to the group on projects completed and those in the pipeline.

Made to feel really welcome and presented with a cheque for £500 and we even won raffle prizes.

Thank you to all the volunteers you are doing an amazing job. 🥰🥰

16/03/2026

Great day for our working party last Saturday, lots of work done and our junior section are now well on with planting the seedlings and using the greenhouse. Thanks to all our wonderful volunteers!

17/02/2026

Lovely spring day last Saturday for our February working party. Thanks to our junior group we installed more bird boxes, a hedgehog house and tidied the bug hotels, the bulbs planted last autumn are coming through nicely. Thanks everyone!

06/02/2026

We've just had great news that our first payment of £500 from the Coop Community Fund is due next month. Thank to everyone who has signed up to support us as cause 95195, it is much appreciated.

09/01/2026

It's our first working party of the new year tomorrow and it's set to be a little warmer. Lots to do, things to tidy and bulbs to check on. In other news we've been informed by the Co-op that 448 people are supporting us as their good cause - this is fantastic news, can we make it 450 over the weekend?

24/12/2025

For info, if you are concerned when visiting, contact details for the Councils Bereavement Services

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