Just a reminder. When shopping at Becketts Farm Shop, please pop a token in our community drop box to help us win funding for our day to day projects. The photo above may help you locate it !

A beautiful photograph to accompany a sad loss. Thank you Kaye Williams for allowing us to use this photograph of your brother in law after he played for your father’s interment in Brandwood End.

As well as being special to Kaye, it will also be special to those of us that know and love our Redwoods.

If you were someone interested in helping with Caring for God’s Acre’s project to record memorials/inscriptions in Brandwood End please follow this link if you fancy some indoor winter work transferring the information recorded so far on to the map data base.

Numbers for this indoor event are restricted but this will potentially be the first of many such opportunities to take part, so watch this space.

This notice, showing details, is now on display in the Cemetery. Please note parking issues.

At the foot of our home page you will find a link marked ‘Amazon Books’. If you click that link or use this link as a way to access the Amazon site, they will reward us with a small percentage amount for each item purchased.

Every little helps, so if you are an Amazon user why not support FBEC whilst you shop?

Can we thank all our teams of volunteers, who give their time to help place over 350 poppy crosses on the graves of those buried or remembered in Brandwood End who lost their lives due to conflict.

Sometimes finding those graves can be a challenge, but every one will receive a poppy cross.

 

After having to cancel this annual event in 2020 we are pleased to say that it will be taking place in 2021

on Sunday 14th November at the Cross of Sacrifice- starting time 10.45am.  Everyone welcome.

We hoped to be joined, as usual, by representatives of local organisations, Councillors and WM Police.

You have to love all these names. Stinking Bishop – Weeping Widow – Fairy Ring – False Chanterelles – Stinking Dappling’s – Poison Pies – Earthy Powder cap – Puff Ball – Yellow Stainer –Shaggy Parasols – Brittle Stems – Little Bonnets – Red Cracking Bolete, I could go on !  Have you guessed yet?

They are all names of some of the species of Fungi that we found today in the cemetery. We only covered a small amount of ground but discovered over 25 different varieties.

Our thanks go to Lucas Large, Curator of  The Natural Science collection at Birmingham Museums Trust and Georgina  Sharp, Community Co-ordinator for Caring for God’s Acre.

 

We have been lucky enough to be selected to benefit from the Becketts Farm Community Fund. All you need to do, as an FBEC supporter, is to shop at Becketts Farm Shop and ask for a token to place in our tub !  There will be 3 local groups looking for support and we will each receive a portion of £750 in relation to the number of tokens in our tubs.

The Friends rely on the support of local funders like Becketts to be able to carry out small projects within the cemetery such as installing interpretation,  photographing graves for relatives who may not be able to visit and planting /maintaining the Civilian Garden of Remembrance. One of the items on our list waiting for funding is the complete refurbishment of our 2 benches in the Civilian Garden area. They are well used and as such need refreshing.

This funding event in favour of FBEC will continue till January 2022, so you have plenty of time to pop along for your Christmas Fayre!

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Our chairman has been dying to wrestle this bramble out of the Rhododendron all year but is now glad she didn’t. I am sure the birds will thank her!