Friends of Wombwell Cemetery

15/07/2025

It was a fantastic first meeting at Darfield today. If you’re interested in joining the committee and bringing something to the table, no matter how big or how small, please get in touch with the group! Good luck & best wishes to all involved ❤️🌳🕊️

08/07/2025

08/07/2025

A new Friends group is forming at Darfield Cemetery! Give them a follow and show your support, or message them if you want to get involved. It’ll be amazing to have another cemetery friends group in the borough ❤️

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23/06/2025

Take a look at the round-up video to see just a snippet of the fantastic things volunteers around the borough are doing (including us! 😉)

19/06/2025

The Friends would like to thank the Wombwell & District 701 Charity Darts League for their generous donation of £650 to the group. Your work to raise money for local charities such as ours is fantastic and is really appreciated! This donation will help us to install permanent crosses for our fallen soldiers, both buried and remembered in Wombwell Cemetery. Thank you! 🙌👏❤️

16/06/2025

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Happy Heavenly 92nd Birthday to busby babe and Wombwell born Mark Jones who tragically passed away at the age of 24 in the Munich air crash. 🌹❤️

09/06/2025

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07/06/2025

We're celebrating National Cemeteries Week! If you want to show support, come down to the cemetery on Wednesday 11th June to lend a helping hand or just have a brew with us! We're always looking for volunteers, even if it's just for an hour, to help us clean, w**d, brush, and more... Even the smallest jobs make a massive difference.

04/06/2025

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It’s been a busy day across the borough for the third day of Love Where You Live week and .

☕Friends of Wombwell Cemetery Group have been bringing people together since 2002.

This incredibly friendly volunteer-led group was formed to help preserve and celebrate the beauty and heritage of Wombwell Cemetery. It’s a fantastic way for people to get out and about, meet new friends, and make a real difference in their community.

In 2005, the group was honoured with The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service – the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK.

🎖We met the Stepping Stones group at Locke Park café for their volunteer celebration morning. They meet every week to take part in micro-volunteering, from gardening and litter picking in Locke Park to leafleting and cleaning children’s toys.

The group is all about building confidence, making new friends and helping each other achieve their goals, whether its holding card making workshops like Simon or using the skills and experience they’ve gained to start their own gardening business like Martin.

🌹Finally in Monk Bretton, we joined Friends of Monk Bretton War Memorial as they helped de-w**d, garden and tidy-up the War Memorial on Cross Street.

The volunteers regularly take part in our Barnsley in Bloom awards and take pride in maintaining the war memorial through planting, tidying, w**ding, pruning and more.

04/06/2025

A Day of THANK YOUs!

We had our Love Where You Live Open Day today! A massive thanks goes to everyone who visited us today, to our amazing regulars, and in particular to the whole group of volunteers who look after Wombwell Cemetery!

Some of our members have been volunteering at the cemetery for upwards of 15-20 years, so the total combined years of service must be in the hundreds! 😮👏👏

We'd also like to thank Barnsley Council South Area Team for funding the event, helping us to provide a lovely lunch for everyone, and Barnsley Council for visiting us, helping to share our story, promoting Love Where You Live, and snapping this fantastic photo of ~most~ of the group!

04/06/2025

TODAY IS THE DAY! We're holding a FREE open day, 10am - 12.30pm.

Support the Friends and see what we do, see if you can give us some help, or simply have a brew and a chat! We'll have free food & refreshments on offer, so come down to the Community Hub to show your support!

Kindly and gratefully funded by the Barnsley Council South Area Team

02/06/2025

VOLUNTEERS' WEEK OPEN DAY - WEDNESDAY 4TH JUNE

Join the Friends for a FREE open day on Wednesday 4th June, 10am - 12.30pm. Support the group and see what we do, see if you can give us some help, or simply have a brew and a chat! We'll have free food & refreshments on offer, so come down to the Community Hub to show your support!

Kindly and gratefully funded by the Barnsley Council South Area Team!