Christchurch, Clarendon Park, Leicester (3rd Award)

Activities undertaken in different areas of church life:

'Spiritual':

• acorns distributed at Harvest Festival
• regular participation in Fairtrade Fortnight, Operation Christmas Child, One World WEek, Christian Aid Week, Environment Sunday
• Eco-challenge (with Bible readings and prayers for reflection)

Practical:

• Greener future books given to children
• money raised for projects abroad, and to help preserve rainforest areas
• Continue to use eco-friendly cleaning materials
• investigated green electricity
• working with Leicester Energy Agency on monitoring system
• investigated solar panels
• survey of congregation undertaken to assess impact of work in church
• visiting speaker on recycling
• many trees planted
• paper-free billing

Mission:

• many articles in national and local publications
• working with users of premises on recycling
• sharing with others about the work (eg local churches, local TV station)
• hosted visitor from Australia doing research on churches and environmental issues
• Fairtrade promoted in church and locally
• tree planting at the National Forest