Eco Church is A Rocha UK’s award scheme for churches in England and Wales who want to demonstrate that the gospel is good news for God’s earth. A Rocha UK is a Christian charity working for the protection and restoration of the natural world.  

The All Saints’ Eco Group has been working hard, exploring the different ways in which we can reduce our environmental impact as well as making the spaces around the church attractive to wildlife and places of rest and contemplation.

To date we have updated our church lighting to use LEDs for our main lighting in the church put in a draught excluder to the main door and reflectors behind  the radiators. Outside we have done much to encourage biodiversity. We have dug a small pond and have seen our first frog, we have installed a bug hotel and have planted new trees in the churchyard and car park, put up bird feeders are are monitoring the increase. We leave part of the churchyard to grow until September  which results in many new wild flowers appearing. We water the churchyard with rainwater collected in a water butt. All the cleaning materials we use in church are eco-friendly

 We have been making great efforts with Fairtrade too - we only serve Fairtrade tea and coffee and we have dispensed with using disposable paper cups  and now only use china ones.