Sussex Green Ideas – monthly Zoom meetings Wednesday 7pm - 8pm with Sussex Green Living, Horsham Eco Churches, Transition Horsham and others.
Wed 18th May - Refills - How you can reduce the plastics in your home by refilling water, household cleaning and personal hygiene bottles, food refills and more, Greenpeace big plastic count campaign week. 15th June - Wasting Food Feeds Climate Change - Let's work together to save food and our planet - Karen Park, Horsham Eco Churches.
A collaborative construction of patches by individuals and groups bringing the community together with a common cause. We would love you to stitch, knit, crochet, print, paint whatever medium you like, but please use resources you already have, to represent your joy in nature and hopes for a sustainable future for our land. Come to the Sussex Green Hub on Sat 30th April to pick up resources and learn all about it. Please complete and return by 25 June, full details and fabrics information here:
Eco Church & Creation Care See our webpage for Horsham Eco Churches presentations, hyperlinks in the slides take you to more information. http://horshamct.org.uk/eco-churches/
Horsham District Community Climate Fund
The Community Climate Fund is a grant available to local voluntary and community groups that share our vision of becoming a carbon neutral District. Churches can apply. The Fund will support new projects that will make a difference and also benefit the wider community. Our priorities and categories that projects must align with are:
Carbon Emissions – Reduce carbon emissions and other climate warming gases
Energy – Reduce consumption of energy and install low carbon or renewable forms of energy
Water – Reduce consumption of water and reduce threats from flooding
Waste – Minimise waste, reduce, reuse, and recycle
Biodiversity – Increase biodiversity and wildlife in the district
Transport – Reduce the need to travel and increase cycling, walking and use of public transport
Other key considerations for Horsham District Council are education, community involvement and the projects potential for long term, tangible environmental benefit and provide positive change.
Growing the Common Good Day Conference in Brighton
Exhausted by two years of ongoing pandemic and seemingly ever-growing global uncertainty, we face big questions – as individuals, churches and communities:
How can we respond to the very real challenges facing our friends, family and neighbours – rapidly rising costs of living, financial and job insecurity, isolation and loneliness, or mental ill health?
How can we express our care for God’s world, responding to the threat of climate change, habitat loss and extinction?
How can our church grow new connections and make a difference we where we live?
In our Christian tradition and beyond, the concept of ‘common good’ offers deep wisdom about how working together we can achieve more, for ourselves and each other, than we ever could alone.
Join Together in Sussex for a day by the sea to explore what this might mean in practice, and across our parishes and Diocese.
Tuesday 17th May 2022, 10am - 4pm, British Airways i360
A day conference for clergy and laity on Common Good initiatives for parishes across the Diocese of Chichester, including:
The Eco Church project – practical ideas from the A Rocha about how to make your Church more eco-friendly as we move closer to the Church of England target to be carbon neutral by 2030.
Together in Sussex - hear about latest initiatives from Together in Sussex and across the CUF Together Network and reflect on how we might work together to help churches, neighbourhoods and communities to flourish.
Join us in calling on the UK Government to ensure finance is delivered to climate-vulnerable communities.
The climate crisis is hitting those living in poverty the hardest. For millions of people across the world, extreme weather events mean losing their homes, food and livelihoods. This is not God’s plan.
That’s why we are calling on the UK Government to make best use of the remainder of its COP presidency, which runs until November 2022. We’re urging it to influence wealthier nations to deliver on their promises of finance for those living on the frontline of the climate crisis – a crisis these poorer nations did not cause.
Sussex Green Living has local collection points to recycle plastics which cannot go in our blue top recycling bins and cannot be recycled with carrier bags at supermarkets. More information here: https://sussexgreenliving.co.uk/resources
Trafalgar, Greenway
and Holy Trinity Recycling
Trafalgar Infant School, Greenway (Junior) Academy and the Holy Trinity Church Community in Horsham together save specific plastics and rubbish from landfill and incineration, while raising money for those communities.
Join the discussion, as we encourage and inspire churches and communities on their Eco journey, to share ideas and find out more about caring for God’s wonderful world.
