Eco Church

A Rocha UK’s Eco Church programme equips churches in England and Wales to care for creation.

Eco Church is a learning community of churches of all shapes and sizes open to all denominations. It provides a framework to support churches and its leadership to take practical action on caring for God’s earth, through the Eco Church survey. The survey covers five key areas of church life:

• Worship and teaching
• Buildings and energy
• Land and nature
• Community and global engagement
• Lifestyle

A Rocha UK is a Christian charity working to protect and restore the natural world and committed to equipping Christians and churches in the UK to care for the environment.
 

Our Latest Eco Initiative

Blister packs have in the past been regarded as ‘unrecyclable’ because they contain mixed materials.  There are now companies who are able to separate the foil and plastic to be recycled and kept out of landfill and incineration.

Boots and Superdrug are helping by providing collection bins in some of their stores.  We have placed a collection box in each of our churches where you can deposit your used blister packs and they will be taken to a participating Boots or Superdrug store.

Please do not put unwanted or expired medication into the boxes in the churches.  These must be disposed of at pharmacies or GP surgeries.

Volunteers for the Eco Church Team

If you are interested in joining the Bisley and West End Eco Church team, please contact the Parish Office to find out more.
 

Latest Eco Achievements in Bisley and West End

Thanks to our Eco Church Team who have been encouraging us as a Church and individuals to make changes to soften our environmental impact; we have been awarded the A Rocha Silver Award and are now registered as a Fairtrade Church.
 

Wildlife in our Churchyards

Take time to have a wander around our beautiful Churchyards and see what flowers, birds, butterflies, insects you can spot and let us know what you find.  We'd love to hear from you.  Email your comments to Parish News at bweparisheditors@gmail.com
 

Car Shares

As part of our Eco Church initiative, we encourage some car shares to church, meetings and volunteering duties.  Please do have a think if there’s anyone you could do a car share with.  Thank You.
 

What we have been doing

Here is a list of just some of the things we have been doing as part of our Eco Church initiative:

• 100% of the bulbs in our churches are low energy
• The bee hives at Bisley church
• Recycled toilet paper is provided in our toilets
• Re-useable crockery and cutlery are used whenever possible
• Recycling bins are in place at both our churches
• Recycling blister pack boxes are in place at both churches
• The Parish News is printed on lightweight paper
• Any printing that is done is printed on recycled paper
• Bug Hotel by Messy Church
• Twinned toilets
• Fairtrade products are used whenever possible
• Bike racks installed at both churches
• Registered as a Fairtrade Church