We were very excited about the special services on Sunday 18th May and Sunday22nd June. They were both occasions to celebrate the beauty of Dorsington and the natural world.As you may know the Parochial Church Council (PCC) has adopted a new management regime for the churchyard, one that should encourage and nurture biodiversity. After a short service in May, Paddy Sexton, who helped design the new regime, talked about the principles and hopes that underlie this fresh approach. Then in June we hosted a walk through the arboretum. We invited some people with a particular interest in birds to join us to help us compile a list of the birds we saw and heard.Look out for further events next year!
The Carol Service is always a highlight of the church calendar at St Peter’s in Dorsington. With no shop, pub or other community building, it is a rare and cherished opportunity for the village to gather to celebrate Christmas and socialise over a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie. For such a small community, we are disproportionately blessed with talent and were treated to a beautiful reading by Izzy, a saxophone solo by Otis and Mags’ accomplished organ playing. Everyone left with a warm, fuzzy, Christmassy feeling (and not just because of the mulled wine).
We have recently embarked on an exciting project to ‘rewild’ the churchyard. This will involve leaving some areas unmown in order to provide a habitat for native species of flora and fauna to thrive. We have also installed a number of bird boxes. To see the poster pictured above in full, click on the image of it on our home page.If you would like to make a contribution to the rewilding project, the maintenance of the churchyard, or the work of St Peter’s in general, please use the following link to our online giving page: https://givealittle.co/c/1NLyAaGv7TCELoLevn0C19
