Module 01 - Church Check-up

Church Check-Up

Take our 'church check-up', designed to help you identify and affirm your church's current good environmental practice and prioritise future activities. It is advised that churches use this first. Further resource modules are available to help churches put their environmental plans into action.


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Additional Resources

Christian Ecology Link (CEL)

Christian Ecology Link have a leaflet with ideas

Resource Files

CEL's environmental audit leaflet (PDF | 63kb)
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Denominational Environmental Policies

Some denominations have produced environmental policies: does your church match up?

Resource Files

Baptist Church Environmental Policy
Church of England Shrinking the Footprint programme
Methodist Church Environmental Policy
United Reformed Church Environmental Policy
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Alliance of Religions and Conservation

The Alliance of Religions and Conservation produced a detailed audit for the new millennium,

Resource Files

Caring for God's World
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Listening To The Earth: An Environmental Audit for Benedictine Communities

Also the Alliance of Religions and Conservation have worked with the Benedictine community in Pennsylvania on an audit aimed at rural Benedictine communities in Latin America, but which has lots of in depth challenges to any community.

Resource Files

Listening To The Earth: An Environmental Audit for Benedictine Communities (PDF | 1.2mb)
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Practical help with environmental audits

  • Some energy efficiency advice centres might consider undertaking a survey of the church premises. Call 0800 512012 and your call will go through to your local centre.
  • If your local council has a sustainability team, an agenda 21 team, or an action 21 team, they may be willing to offer advice. Try phoning your local council and asking. You might need to go through the environment services department, or the planning department, depending on how your council is organised.
  • Community Action for Energy commissioned an agency to carry out an environmental energy audit for St Peters Church Caversham, so it might be worthwhile contact them: 08701 261 444.
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Resource for Welsh Independent Churches

For Welsh-speaking churches, the Union of Welsh Independent Churches produced a booklet in May 2008 outlining the basic issues, and with suggestions covering worship to recycling.

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