Progress with our Eco Church application

Here is a summary of the progress towards a silver award. As you can see we are making progress:

• We have already achieved the Gold standard in two of the five categories.
• We are silver in another two.
• The area we need to particularly work on is our building.

We have already done a lot including:

• Double glazing in the Church Hall
• Improving the insulation when our flat roofs were replaced.
• Using renewable electricity.

We have a beautiful church building but because of its age, both heating and insulating the building are a challenge. The Stewards are working with the Property and Finance Committee to actively explore how we can improve things in a cost-effective way. This includes identifying potential grants to help the fund-raising for the work we will need to do.

If you have ideas on things we can do please speak to one of the Stewards or the Property and Finance Committee.
Please pray for the application, and that all our work will result in a Silver award as more evidence that we take climate change seriously and we are actively trying to do something about it.