St Andrew’s PCC

The Queen’s Green Canopy Initiative

St Andrew’s PCC planted a tree and joined in the late Queen’s Green Canopy project.  A commemorative yew was chosen (said to grow for the next thousand years) to celebrate the lengthy reign of the late Queen Elizabeth and will no doubt act as a St Andrews churchyard memorial for generations of future passing parishioners. Part of the Green Canopy initiative it is hoped that the tree will act as a reminder of how aware and concerned we church-goers rs were about the still deteriorating state of the planet in the early years of the twenty first century.

Joyce Wilson, whose idea the yew planting was and who oversaw the purchase of the tree from the nearby west Layton Nurseries, is smiling as she places the first earth around the base of the tree. Note her sensible gardening shoes unlike those of (from l.to r.): Lynne Lobley, Mark Samuelson, Graham Young, Christina Barnet and Canon the Revd Eileen Harrop who had just come into the long wet grass from celebrating the Advent 2022 service in the adjacent church.