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Welcome to All Saints Ecocongregation page!  All Saints is a church committed to caring for God's creation, and we recently received our second EcoCongregation Award for our commitment as a congregation to reducing our impact on the environment.  We have been invited, along with other Ecocongregation groups in the area, to go to meeting the new Bishop of Reading when he or she has been inaugurated.

All Saints Carbon Reduction Project

You may have seen the Wokingham Times article with the headline “Church aims to go green with solar panels”. http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/news/s/2078703_church_aims_to_go_green_with_solar_panels

The good news is that the PCC has given its blessing to an Eco-congregation project to investigate how we could reduce the energy costs and carbon footprint of our historic church building. 

At each stage of the project, the project team will ensure that expert advice is obtained, and that the correct approvals are obtained from the listed building authorities as well as church authorities and the PCC.

At a special PCC meeting on the 6th of April, the PCC resolved unanimously to allow the group to spend up to £7,500 on drawing up specifications to repair the church roof and undertake other maintenance work necessary prior to the installation of solar panels.  It also authorised the group to apply for planning permission to install solar panels on the roof of the Cornerstone.  The group will return with costed proposals to seek the PCC's permission to do the work should it be minded to give it.

There are now numerous examples of Listed churches that have gone carbon neutral:

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/news/Green-Cotswolds-church-UK-pioneer/article-2575037-detail/article.html

If you have an interest in being part of the All Saints Carbon Reduction Team, please contact Tamzin Evershed on Tamzin_Evershed@yahoo.co.uk, or speak to her after the 9.30 service.

 

Useful Links and Ideas

http://www.christian-ecology.org.uk/   Ecology, with a Christian focus. Information, campaigns and prayer guides, plus an online community.  See also their LOAF campaign, for Local, Organic, Animal Friendly and Fairtrade Food. http://www.christian-ecology.org.uk/loaf.htm

   Download All Saints' Local Food Guide, to assist you in shopping locally and ethically in Wokingham.

www.transitionnetwork.org  The Christian Ecology Link has officially announced that it is partnering with the Transition movement.  All Saints Wokingham works closely with Transition Wokingham a group that seeks to help Wokingham reduce its dependence on fossil fuel and reduce its carbon emissions.  For more information on Transition neworks, visit this website.  Also, this leaflet explains why the Transition movement is relevant to Christians everywhere. cit-leaflet

http://www.generous.org.uk/ A wonderful feel-good on line community that urges you to pledge personal action to do the right thing. Beware, this site is addictive!

http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/   Draw some inspiration from work done in Todmorden in Yorkshire, to turn their town into an edible paradise.  Worth a visit just for the "Ahh!" factor.

http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/   Practical advice and help to enable you to reduce your energy use. Anyone can do it, and there are grants available to help.

http://www.greenlink-berkshire.org.uk/  A place to find out what's going on in Berkshire that's green.  This site brings together the various groups in one useful place.

 http://www.1010global.org/uk   A site that urges us to sign up to reduce our carbon emissions by 10% in the year 2010

http://www.earthingfaith.org/  A website of the diocese of Oxford. Sign up to find out ways of becoming closer to God through creation.

 https://www.liftshare.com/uk/   cut your carbon emissions by sharing car journeys.  This is one of the most cost-effective ways to cut your carbon emissions, and a lot more fun than travelling alone.

 

All Saints Church has launched our commitment to reduce the carbon foot print of our church building 

Read the plan approved by the Church Council

(Date of launch was amended to 17th October)