Making available the Heritage of All Saints' Church Sandon whilst securing its future heritage – new opening hours. We are working on a number of ways of making the wonderful artifacts of our Grade 1 Listed Church available to a wider public. Our website at www.sandonallsaints.com continues to be a valuable resource. We invite you to have a look at it. As well as the information about the Heritage project and the history of the church it includes information about services and events. We are still taking bookings for groups to have a guided tour of the church to learn more about its heritage and about the works to conserve and restore rare features. We are also extending our general opening times so that people can just drop in to have a look around or to be guided through the building by one of our volunteers.Excluding Bank Holidays, we are already open on Monday evenings 6-30pm until 9-00pm and Tuesdays 9-30am until 12-00 noon but from April we are extending our opening hours to include from 12-30pm until 4-00pm on Sundays. Do call in to see us. You will be sure of a warm welcome.
As part of the Heritage Lottery sponsored project at All Saints Church, we are looking at the biodiversity in the churchyard and have mapped and recorded the graves information. Working with Staffordshire Wildlife Trust and the generous support of Chris Seabridge Associates we are developing a plan to maintain and improve the biodiversity. We have already put up some bird boxes provided by the Oak Tree Farm project and set up some wildlife shelters. We have started planting hedging to protect and define the areas in the churchyard. Further plans include planting wildflower areas to encourage bees and other insects. We will expand the hedging around the church and provide bee and bug hotels. More will be done over time and as the weather improves. There is more to do and we will be looking for help as we develop our plans. Nigel Wilson
