Weekly Eco-Tips and news from Rachel Westwood.
Save the Date and Share your Ideas
Balsall Common Festival - the Picnic in the Park - is taking place on Saturday 21 June in Lavender Hall Park from 3-8pm. St Peter’s is having a stall offering free environmentally themed crafts and activities for kids - a great way of being part of the community, raising awareness about St Peter’s as well as environmental issues, and showing how important these are to the church and to our faith.
We need your help to make it a success and hopefully there’s something for everyone -
- can you help on the day - setting up (before 3) and taking down the stall and/or helping when we’re open - it’s particularly busy between 3 and 6
- have you got some great ideas for crafts and activities that we could offer? You might have tried some craft ideas at home or school, or think that some of the activities at Switch or other services would work really well.
- have you got bamboo and/or sticks in your garden - they’re fantastic for making bee hotels!
- have you got folding garden chairs you could lend us for the day?
- Can you pray that our planning and preparation goes well, and that the day is a success and that we plant seeds that will be fruitful.
If you’ve got great ideas, can help on the day or with planning and preparation, please let me know (rachel230westwood@btinternet.
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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.