Blog posts
5th January, 2023
Looking for local ornithological projects to sink my teeth into during the COVID-19 pandemic, I was keen on monitoring bird migration within walking distance of home in West Worthing.
Despite no expansive green spaces for at least a...
14th December, 2022
The Friends of Heene Cemetery have notched up 500 in their on-going species count! By coincidence, this happened within weeks of the COP15 UN Biodiversity Conference being held in Montreal between 7th and 19th December. (We’ll explore the...
19th October, 2022
The memorial stone of Francis Septimus Hollis in the grave of his father, George Hollis, is covered in multi-coloured patches of lichen.
Headstone of Francis Septimus Hollis
The lichen, at 12 o’clock, has an off-white,...
28th May, 2022
Heene Cemetery received a grant on the 24th February 2020 of £10,000 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for an exciting heritage project, Collect, Preserve and Share the History of Heene Cemetery Burials....
5th February, 2022
Mosses are miniature marvels, almost hiding from us in plain sight. They are nature’s velvet cushions. Their small-scale intricacy is a delight when viewed close-up, as you can see in the photographs below. Globally, there might be 20,000...
25th October, 2021
Four hundred and seventy-five miles away from Worthing and a hundred miles north-west of Glasgow, where the COP26 global climate talks will be held this November, is the tiny Hebridean island of Coll. In a cemetery on its north-west coast are...
20th October, 2021
Just as Heene’s summer wild flowers have died back and been replaced with the Cemetery’s autumnal shades we have added colour to our website. On the species search page, you can now search for flowering plants according to their colour. This...
17th October, 2021
The Green Flag Community Award 2021/22 flag, flies over the Conservation and Heritage site of Heene Cemetery.
Green Flag Community Award 2021/22 is achieved by Friends of Heene Cemetery
Friends of Heene Cemetery have been...
23rd September, 2021
Heene Heritage Open Day 2021 took place on Saturday 18 September 2021 where Sarah Nathaniel from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CGWC), led some guided tours at Heene Cemetery.
Heene Heritage Open Day 2021...
7th June, 2021
World Environment Day 2021 is celebrated by Friends of Heene Cemetery with a guided tour by Brian Day.
Return your garden to a natural environment to encourage wildlife into it!
Read Brian Day’s top tips on World Environment...
22nd May, 2021
International Day of Biodiversity 2021 is celebrated by the Convention of Biological Diversity.
Their slogan for this year is “We’re part of the solution For Nature”.
Friends of Heene Cemetery volunteers are striving to...
20th May, 2021
What’s causing a buzz in Heene? We caught up with our bee-keeper, Stuart, to learn a little more about him and to hear the latest about how the resident honey bees at Heene Cemetery hives are getting on. Here’s what he told us.
How...
16th April, 2021
120,000 Years of Life
Heene Cemetery Data Study 2 is centred on the birth year of the people buried in Heene Cemetery.
The burial records include an age at death, and for this study, each individual’s birth year has...
7th April, 2021
The World Health Organisation commemorates World Health Day on April 7th and invites you to join a new campaign to build a fairer, healthier world.
Worthing’s Health in 1922
For World Health Day, we have found a Worthing...
30th March, 2021
This is our first Data Study of Heene Cemetery burials.
We have found out that there are nearly 2000 people buried in Heene Cemetery, which is only about an acre in size
The Friends of Heene Cemetery are actively researching...
24th March, 2021
The World Health Organisation commemorates World Tuberculosis Day on March 24 to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB, and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic.
In the...
22nd March, 2021
Friends of Heene Cemetery celebrates World Water Day, on 22nd March 2021.
World Water Day poster
Aids To Conservation
The Friends of Heene Cemetery was formed, by Councillor Diane Guest, the Heene Ward Councillor,...
20th March, 2021
Spring into Heene Cemetery via the wonders of the web. We would like to share with you the many different species that emerge in this season.
Spring Crocus February 2021
Spring Tour Cancelled
Unfortunately, we will...
8th March, 2021
International Women’s Day #EmbraceEquity falls on Wednesday 8th March 2023 this year.
Historically, women were victims of a class system that permitted them limited rights and entitlements.
This subjected most of them to a...
5th March, 2021
Excerpts from a Blog by devilbirder, Local Birding February 2021, include sightings by David at Heene Cemetery.
February is never a month to shake things up too much but always brings renewed optimism; I think of it as the very start...
4th March, 2021
The 21st December 2020, marked 43 years since Heene Cemetery was closed, by the Queen. What is a closed cemetery? Why was Heene closed? And what happens to a cemetery after it’s closed as Heene Cemetery was in 1977?
In a series of 4...
14th February, 2021
St Valentine’s Day is historically a day to declare love!
And, for the volunteering team at Heene Cemetery, their tireless work in recent years to clear brambles and invasive species from the site, it’s been a labour of love...
14th February, 2021
Love is in the air and Friends of Heene Cemetery research volunteers have found some stories to celebrate Valentine's Day!
Draped Cloth and Chains
This beautiful, Greek influenced, statue erected in memory of Mary Liversedge...
4th February, 2021
Friends of Heene Cemetery Honour and Value the lives lost to Cancer
Research volunteers have been identifying the cause of death for burials aged between 5 years and 45 years.
World Cancer Day logo...
3rd February, 2021
National Hedgehog Day falls on the 2nd of February every year.
A hedgehog captured in one of Heene Cemetery’s infrared cameras at night
Hedgehog Day is a Roman tradition preceding the modern ‘Groundhog Day’. While...