Sustainability

We are registered with A Rocha UK’s Eco Church programme which equips churches in England and Wales to care for creation.

Currently we are working towards achieving a Bronze Eco Church award through positive changes to our church building and churchyard to make more environmentally friendly in the day to day running of the building and services and events. Small changes from withdrawing from single use plastics and food composting after events to more efficient heating systems.

However Eco church is not just about environmental impact, it's about teaching, social interaction and support within the community and further afield. 

The following areas are where we are looking to embrace and improve where we can to achieve our Bronze award this year.

• Worship and teaching
• Buildings and energy
• Land and nature
• Community and global engagement
• Lifestyle

Whilst we would love to be able to generate our own electricity through the use of solar panels or ground source heat pumps etc, current building restrictions to the church being grade 1, its size and construction along with the surrounding graveyard make many of these options unobtainable or insufficient to currently meet the buildings needs. As technologies develop and requirements change it is an area we will be constantly reviewing.

But we can make small changes and sow the seeds to better ourselves and care for not just our beautiful earth but all its inhabitants too.