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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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ECO CHURCH NEWS March 2025

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’...

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ECO CHURCH NEWS January/February

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...

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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...

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ECO CHURCH NEWS November 2024

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...

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ECO CHURCH NEWS OCTOBER 2024

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....

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ECO CHURCH NEWS SEPTEMBER 2024

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...

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ECO CHURCH NEWS

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...

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The Young church manifesto in which ecological concerns dominate the “Issues for the Church to help tackle”