With a church packed with displays and fun activities and a programme of talks and project launches, the event also hopes to raise funds towards installing an all-access toilet, baby changing area and kitchen in the church.
 
This will add to the successful bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund to carry out urgent repairs and some improvements to access.
 
The church (off Haveringland Road), which has a limited number of religious services as a “Festival Church”,  is developing its role as a community hub, a focus for heritage and arts events, and a launch pad for a Living Landscape project to increase biodiversity in the wider landscape.
 
The Earth Day event, jointly organised with Norfolk Green Care Network, will see the launch of the Living Landscape project in the afternoon and in the morning a First Nature campaign to expand nature connection opportunities for children and young people across Norfolk.
 
There will also be talks about bats (including the evidence of bat activity found in the church) and the Eco Church Award, which Haveringland is hoping to make progress on.
 
The event runs from 10 am – 4 pm and refreshments will be available throughout the day. The First Nature launch commences around 11 am and the Living Landscape project around 2 pm.
 
Nigel Boldero
Churchwarden, Haveringland Parish Church
Project Manager: Building the Future: Repairing the Past