Eco Church
In 2021 the Mint Church registered as an Eco Church, one of over seven thousand in England and Wales, we obtained our bronze award at the start of 2022 and in March 2024 we obtained our Silver Award. We will now be working towards Gold. We realize there are a lot of restraints on what we can do easily due to our older buildings but we are incorporating the theme of care for creation more strongly in our worship and teaching, strengthening the green credentials of our building and the activities that happen in it, working in local and global partnerships with others committed to environmental concerns, and challenging the lifestyle of our members. Our Young Church provided us with the impetus we needed to become greener in our actions as well as our words, and we are determined to pass on to the next generation a church committed to the fullness of God’s creation. We are currently working at building relationships that will enable the church and the many users of the centre to address the issues together, and also at strengthening relationships with those outside the church who share similar aims.
Eco Church News
Eco Church News September 2025
We have just had the third of our monthly Walk and Worship events. These "Discovery Walks" are designed to be an amble when we take the time to...
ECO CHURCH NEWS July/August 2025
Citizen science One of the questions in the new Eco Church assessment scheme asks whether we take part in citizen science. Citizen science is the...
Eco Church News June 2025
God, the land and us During the morning service on 27th April this year, led by the Eco Church Team to mark Earth Day, we were encouraged to think...
Eco Church News May 2025
God, the land and us That was the topic of our service marking Earth Day at the end of April, and it is also the theme the Eco Church team hopes the...
Eco Church News April 2025
They’ve arrived! Our 60 solar panels have now been installed and working for the last week or so. The Sungift installation team did a great job and...
ECO CHURCH NEWS March 2025
Solar panels for the Mint We have now assembled sufficient funding for the solar panel project to go ahead, thanks to the funds raised for ‘green’...
ECO CHURCH NEWS January/February
New Year, New Environmental Outlook Stephen Haddad shares some ideas for environmentally friendly New Year’s resolutions. With Christmas festivities...
Eco Church News December 2024
Celebrating Christmas Many of the ways in which we celebrate Christmas cause additional carbon emissions, so can we be environmentally andsocially...
ECO CHURCH NEWS November 2024
UK Energy Generation Many of you will have seen that on 30th September this year the UK’s last coal-fired power station stopped producing...
ECO CHURCH NEWS OCTOBER 2024
Flowers planted Following last month’s news about a Mint gardening group that had been started, we’re now pleased to report some further action....
ECO CHURCH NEWS SEPTEMBER 2024
Weeding and Gardening In the last edition of Forward, John White wrote about needing a volunteer to help with weeding and gardening at the Mint. For...
ECO CHURCH NEWS
Mint litter pick On Saturday 27th April, 7 members of the young church along with parents and helpers, met at The Mint to take part in a litter pick...
The Young church manifesto in which ecological concerns dominate the “Issues for the Church to help tackle”