THE Friends of Darwen Cemetery offer a grave maintenance service for people with family in the town’s western cemetery who are unable to do work themselves.
The group offers a one-off clearance of a grave or annual maintenance.
One-off clearance means the friends will remove the top 5cm of soil and cover it with a heavy duty weed control membrane, before recovering the top 5cm with white stone chippings.
The cost will depend on the amount of work required.
Annual maintenance will see the grave prepared as it is in the one-off clearance, but the volunteers will then rake the shippings four times a year and keep the site weed free.
Annual maintenance costs £20 per year.
Only graves where the gravestone is securely fixed and the area is safe for the volunteers can qualify for the schemes.
Anyone interested can contact jaynemyers@ darwencemetery.org.uk or call 01254 771854.
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