Successful volunteer days tidying up the Cucumber Lane Cemetery paths and car park

A team of volunteers, including several members of Brundall Parish Council, the Parish Clerk and members of the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens (Elaeagnus Collection), recently gave their time freely to help clean off and tidy up the gravel paths and car park at the Cemetery in Cucumber Lane.

In past years the gravel path and car park at the Cemetery, which is owned and managed by the Parish Council, and is the location for a National Elaeagnus Collection, has become extremely boggy when wet, due to moss and vegetable matter clinging to the surfaces.  The voluntary team has now spent the best part of 2 Saturdays working very hard to clean up the paths and car park.

This voluntary action has saved the Parish Council, and consequently the residents of Brundall, hundreds of pounds in employing a contractor to do the work.

Storage bins for compost were also constructed by the volunteers and a large amount of surplus soil has now been removed from the cemetery.

This work is all part of the Parish Council's ongoing Cemetery improvement programme for 2007/2008, which has included tidying up the grounds generally, redecorating and repairing the lych gate, fencing and benches, and generally enhancing the appearance of the Cemetery.

If you are interested in helping Brundall Parish Council as a volunteer or could supply a mini-excavator and driver on the next volunteer day in the Cemetery, please contact the Parish Clerk, Peter Sime, on 07809 144342 or email brundallparishcouncil@hotmail.co.uk Whatever time and/or equipment that you can spare would be greatly appreciated.

November 2007