National Lottery Heritage Fund LoveParks Week
27 July 2021
This week the National Lottery Heritage Fund mark their LoveParks Week with a focus on the Lottery-funded transformation of Rectory Lane Cemetery.
In 2017 the Friends of St Peters received grants totalling £989,200 from The National Lottery through the Parks for People programme. This funding enabled a three-year transformational project to restore a neglected, overgrown Cemetery into a vibrant green space.
The goal of the Rectory Lane Cemetery project was to change perceptions of cemeteries as “dead spaces” and revitalise the many aspects of a cemetery:
- a place of remembrance to commemorate the lives of loved ones
- a heritage asset that celebrates the history of the town
- a rich educational resource
- a space for promoting health and wellbeing
- a wildlife haven
Read more on the National Lottery Heritage Fund website
