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Eco Church is A Rocha UK’s award scheme for churches in England and Wales who want to demonstrate that the gospel is good news for God’s earth, and Bedworth Parish is part of it!
We were awarded the prestigious Eco Church Award at Bronze level in 2021. The vision is for the church to care for creation as an integral part of loving our neighbours and following God faithfully. We are now actively working towards our Silver award.
So far, among other things we:
What can you do?
Here are some suggestions:
There are more ideas and information on the Eco Church website. Eco Church is supported by A Rocha, Christian Aid, Tear Fund, The Church of England and the Methodist Church.
If you would like to get more involved, please contact Chris Rigden via [email protected].
We were awarded the prestigious Eco Church Award at Bronze level in 2021. The vision is for the church to care for creation as an integral part of loving our neighbours and following God faithfully. We are now actively working towards our Silver award.
So far, among other things we:
- Do a town litter pick, most months
- Have a large recycling bin
- Have twinned our toilets and taps.
- Send disposable cups to Costa for recycling
- Replaced most of our lights with LEDs
- Added timers to the immersion heaters for water
- Have an annual Lifestyle Audit for our parishioners
- Became a Fairtrade Church and support the annual Fairtrade Fortnight
- Have reduced our heating use through monitoring and careful scheduling
- Are arranging for solar panels and battery to be installed
- Are available to speak with other interested churches
- … and many more initiatives!
What can you do?
Here are some suggestions:
- Carry out a lifestyle audit. Church members please also use our Lifestyle Audit for Bedworth Parish but others might like to think about the same questions.
- Find out your carbon footprint. Use an environmental footprint calculator, such as the WWF calculator, the Giki Zero app, Climate Hero, or the more thorough Carbon Calculator.
- Apply the principles Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in your life
- Consider how you travel, especially how you get to church. Could you walk or share a car with someone? We’d like to encourage people to get to church more sustainably.
There are more ideas and information on the Eco Church website. Eco Church is supported by A Rocha, Christian Aid, Tear Fund, The Church of England and the Methodist Church.
If you would like to get more involved, please contact Chris Rigden via [email protected].
