Net Zero Week
It’s currently Net Zero Week (5-11 July 2025) - a national awareness week giving an opportunity to focus on climate challenges and action, and look at what else we may be able to do to help reduce our own carbon footprints and to encourage Government and international action.
This might mean for example thinking again about whether we can cut down our car use; doing more reuse and recycling; looking at whether solar panels might be an option for us; planning ahead to make sure our homes are as well insulated as possible; lobbying our MPs; or looking at whether we can plant trees or hedges and avoid removing our front gardens if possible.
You can find more information about plans to tackle climate change at Your Future Solihull and Love Solihull to start https://www.lovesolihull.org/
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There is information for Coventry at https://www.coventry.gov.uk/climatechange and for Warwickshire at https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/environment-planning/commitment-tackling-climate-change
Save Water
With the unusually dry spring and current heatwave, reservoirs are low and Severn Trent is encouraging us to save water with some simple tips.
- turn off taps when brushing your teeth.
- keep some cold water in the fridge rather than running the tap until it’s cold.
- timing showers.
- running full loads on dishwashers and washing machines.
- using a watering can rather than sprinkler/hosepipe in the garden.
- looking out for and fixing leaks.
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We are proud to say that we have achieved the ‘Silver’ award level of the A’Rocha scheme. We intend to build on this and achieve Gold by recycling more, encouraging our church members and other churches to follow environmentally sensitive policies, and looking after our site (the churchyard) to promote ecological diversity and the wellbeing of the natural world. As part of this, we are thrilled to say that we were able to host the YCCN pilgrimage to the Glasgow Climate
Here’s our newly planted native (organic!) Yew hedge and our bee-friendly wildflower area which is showing good results!Summit!
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We have “recycling” boxes in the entrance to the Church and Hall where you can leave old mobile phones, stamps, spectacles and printer cartridges! These can often be sold to raise funds for the needy or passed to charities who can use them. We also can help with the recycling of many other things - contact us if you would like to help our Recycling efforts as we do need a new Coordinator!
We also try to feed the birds, encourage native wildflowers to grow in our grounds, and welcome people to use our space to relax - but please do so responsibly and do not leave litter! That’s what the bins and recycling boxes are for.