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Energy Footprint Tool is now open to calculate your church’s carbon footprint
The Church of England’s Energy Footprint Tool is now open for churches to enter fuel and power use from 2023. The data collected from the tool will help your church understand its carbon footprint and will mean you may be eligible for grants to help kickstart your net zero projects. This work is an essential part of caring for God’s Creation, by helping to combat global heating and climate change. The easy-to-use online tool will…
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Bishop Jackie Opens New Primary School Garden in an Exmouth Churchyard
The Acting Bishop of Exeter, the Rt. Rev’d Jackie Searle, has been visiting primary schools across Devon this past week. One of her visits was to the Beacon Church of England Primary School, Exmouth, for the launch of their new school garden. The school itself is fully concreted and has no green space for the pupils. Over the past 18 months, Holy Trinity Church in Exmouth has been working with the school, the Diocesan Advisory Committee…
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Devon’s Give 2 Go Green Churches Raise £85,000 towards Net Zero Improvements in Just Four Weeks
Churches in Devon taking part in the Give 2 Go Green pilot scheme have raised £85,000 towards their £97,000 goal in just four weeks. Give 2 Go Green is a match-funding project to help parishes raise money to make net zero improvements to their buildings. There are 16 churches in Devon currently fundraising for it. The Church of England nationally will match the money the churches raise up to an agreed grant amount. Sophie Phillips,…
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First Women Priests Remember Their Ordinations 30 Years On
One of the first women to be ordained as a priest will be preaching at her former parish church on Mothering Sunday to mark the 30th anniversary of the first women’s ordination to the priesthood on 12 March 1994. Rev’d Jane Wilson is the former vicar of Offwell in East Devon and will be returning there on Sunday. She was ordained as a deacon in London Diocese in 1991. At the time women were not…
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Devon Church Offers a Practical Act of Kindness to those Facing Homelessness in their Community
The congregation at Ottery St Mary Church has rallied together to support homeless people and rough sleepers in Devon, by providing packs of useful essentials in the porch of the church. Research from the charity Shelter, who support homeless people, show that at least 309,000 people in England are without a home. This includes almost 140,000 children. The congregation at Ottery St Mary are hoping that the packs they have created will make a difference…
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Brixham service celebrates 200 years of the RNLI saving lives at sea
A service to mark the 200th anniversary of the RNLI has taken place at All Saints church in Brixham. It began with three minutes of bellringing by all the churches across Brixham, Torquay and Paignton. The service was led by Helen Lovell-Smith, the Fishermen’s Mission Area Officer for Devon, and attended by members of Torbay Lifeboat crew, their families, friends and other volunteers and supporters. The address was given by the Bishop of Plymouth, the…
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