St Thomas' Finsbury Park, London

Activities included:

'Spiritual':

• integrate environmental concerns into worship in services and children's work
• Environment Month Sept/Oct 2007 included:
  • environmental themes such as stewardship, creation, water
  • children's theme on seeds and growing
  • study series on St Francis and Thomas Traherne
  • Harvest with link to Mozambique, food quiz, wild food walk
  • environmental pledges

Practical:

• energy audit of buildings, resulting in costed programme of energy efficiency work
• replaced all lightbulbs to low wattage
• switched to 'green' electricity tariff
• water saving 'hippos' in cisterns
• gardening group use organic methods to maintain church grounds
• biodiversity action plan for church grounds
• composting and recycling facitilites in grounds
• nest boxes and insect homes in grounds
• energy advice offered to church members

Mission:

• close links with local nature reserve and Islington Ecology Centre
• involved in planning and running an annual festival and developing inter-faith services at the Centre
• church members voluteer for meadow scything, tree planing and seed sowing with Ecology Centre
• community showing of An Inconvenient Truth
• special environmental edition of parish newsletter, delivered to all homes in parish
• church website with environmental page
• work with many local groups and member of local climate change partnership
• monthly fairtrade stall, and linked to fairtrade network locally
• links with churches in Mazambique and Ghana
• work with asylum seekers