HELP COVER WAKEFIELD CATHEDRAL STEPS WITH POPPIES.
Wakefield Cathedral want to create their own field of poppies to cover the south door entrance and the steps of Wakefield Cathedral in time for Remembrance Day – and they need your help!
Inspired by the poppies at the Tower of London last year – and the famous First World War poem, In Flanders Fields - they are asking church and community groups to help them make as many poppies as possible to recreate a field of poppies on the steps at the time of the Remembrance Service at 11 
am on November 11.
More than four million people crowded around the Tower of London
to look at the Blood Swept Land and Seas of Red display, pictured left, courtesy of The Daily Telegraph, to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WW1 and while many of the 888,246 poppies were bought by members of the public, the remaining thousands have now set off on their northern touring exhibition starting with the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Wakefield, pictured here on the right.
Tracey Yates, Wakefield Cathedral’s Community Learning Manager and Heidi Moore, Community Missioner, are coordinating Wakefield Cathedral’s own poppy field and are asking for poppies of all size and shape- they can be knitted, crocheted or crafted from any material.
But they have to be delivered to the Cathedral by the evening of Nov 10 in time to create the carpet on the Cathedral steps for the Remembrance Service – they will then form a display inside the nave before being sold off to raise funds for the Royal British Legion. The RBL has been selling poppies to raise funds for veterans since 1921.
Said Tracy: “We want people to be surprised by our poppies.”
The Dean of Wakefield, the Very Revd Jonathan Greener said: “It is so important that we all remember; not just to honour those who died for our freedom, but so we all learn lessons for the way we live our lives today. Remembering is something the church can help our country to do and at the Cathedral we invite the whole community to knit poppies for this very important season.
Download patterns to crochet a poppy, 2 patterns to knit poppies, and download a flyer with more information about Wakefield Cathedral's Remembrance Day.
The Cathedral’s knit and natter group meet every Wednesday from 11-12noon if you want to join them.
Drop your poppies into the Cathedral or send them to Poppies, Wakefield Cathedral, Cathedral Centre, 8-10 Westmoreland Street, Wakefield. WF1 1PJ