Birmingham Anglican Climate Action (BACA) ran their fourth in their series of one-hour zoom taster/training sessions for any church wanting to go greener and engage with practical ideas for taking Eco Church further.
This session provided a brief update on the National Environmental Programme and Birmingham Diocese actions on the route to Net Zero. Churches shared their experiences of looking at reducing their energy usage, as well as sharing resources on actions to take to reduce household energy consumption.
The recording of this session is available on YouTube here.
Ben Smith, the Care of Churches Officer at the Birmingham Diocese provided an update on the National Environmental Programme and actions of the Birmingham Diocese on it’s route to Net Zero. See slides here.
Lloyd Edwards from St Germain in Edgbaston talked about their experiences of looking for new greener sources of heating for their church. See their website information here.
Mike Powell from St. Michaels church in Cofton Hackett talked about their experiences of using Pew Seat heating. See his slides here. See also further information here.
Daniel Wilson from BACA and Kate Crocker talked about Infrared Heating for churches.
Daniel introduced a video from St Matthews, Bristol about their experiences of Herschel Halo heater within their church. See the video from this page.
Kate Crocker from St James church in Shirley talked about their experience of Infrared heating in their church hall, and the plans for their church which may also install Infrared heating from Herschel. See church hall information here – and also their eco journey here.
John Nightingale from Footsteps talked about reducing heating bills in the home and the footsteps energy champion network. See the slides here and the website information here.
Further Links
Link to the heating checklist recommended for completion by all churches looking to replace their heating and a requirement by the DAC:
Fund Raising
Here is the link to all the net zero webinars with information about fund raising.
They have 2 webinars for each funding webinar, one in the daytime 12-1.30 for large churches/cathedrals, likely to have staff and one in the evening for small/medium churches, with volunteer fund-raisers, which are in the evening 7.00 -8.30.
- Community grant makers – 10 Oct 2023 7-8.30
- Environmental grant makers – 19 Oct 2023 7-8.30
- Faith-based grant makers – 9 Nov 2023 7-8.30
- Statutory grant makers – 21 Nov 2023 7-8.30
The individual booking details are on the web links.