Wild and Wonderful workshops for church and holiday club leaders The Wild and Wonderful programme is aimed at churches, holiday clubs and primary schools that are keen to engage moreContinue reading
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Wild and Wonderful Workshop – for church and holiday club leaders
Wild and Wonderful workshops for church and holiday club leaders The Wild and Wonderful programme is aimed at churches, holiday clubs and primary schools that are keen to engage moreContinue reading
EcoChurch Resourcing: Cheltenham Coffee Shop Chat (Moosh, Charlton Kings)
The next EcoChurch resourcing events are going to be informal gatherings in coffee shops, in various locations across the Diocese. It is an opportunity to bring questions, to share joysContinue reading
Introducing Chris Langham, the Deanery Eco Advisor for the Severn Vale Deanery
A childhood spent in the densely populated city of Portsmouth, led Chris to a lifelong love of the great outdoors and a sense of responsibility for caring for the planet.Continue reading
Eco campaigner Josie lights up her school
PV panels have been fitted to the roof of Bussage Church of England Primary School after a 10-year-old school girl inspired her local community to take action on the environment.Continue reading
Churches celebrate Messy Church Goes Wild Roadshow launch
Messy Church Goes Wild was officially launched at the Christian Adventure Centre in Viney Hill on Saturday. It’s the latest offering from the Bible Reading Fellowship’s popular Messy Church, butContinue reading
EcoChurch Resourcing: Cirencester Coffee Shop Chat (Toro Lounge)
The next EcoChurch resourcing events are going to be informal gatherings in coffee shops, in various locations across the Diocese. It is an opportunity to bring questions, to share joysContinue reading
#EcoChurchInAnHour Caring for the environment
Bishop Robert meets the Assistant Operations Director at Trinity Cheltenham, Marion David, to talk about how care for the environment runs through everything they do as a church at Trinity.
#EcoChurchInAnHour Caring for creation through worship
How can worship help us to live out our care for the environment? Bishop Robert speaks to the Revd Andrew Blythe from Trinity Cheltenham about how worship through music and prayer connects to our stewardship of creation.
#EcoChurchInAnHour: Supporting Kenyan farmers
In the next of our Eco Church In An Hour videos, Bishop Robert speaks to Dave Rowe from Trinity Cheltenham about his church’s links with North West Kenya.
Baptism and confirmation services get ‘greener’
For the first time, churches are able to invite people who are being baptised and confirmed to make pledges to care for the planet as part of their baptismal vows.Continue reading
Change to faculty rules helps make churches greener
The rules around doing work on churches have changed today (1 July 2022), to help the Church of England achieve net-zero carbon by 2030. Parishes will now be expected toContinue reading
Greening Tetbury: Churches lead on climate change action
Tetbury churches are working together, across denominations, to drive positive community partnership, for the environment. Their goal is to get the whole local community to take action on climate change.Continue reading
Stow’s ancient trees dedicated to HM The Queen
The picturesque trees framing the door of St Edward’s Church in Stow have been selected to be dedicated to the Queen as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Green CanopyContinue reading
Eco pod homes for vulnerable people
“These homes are the sort of transformation I want to be part of – the sort of world I want to be living in.”
Eco Church In An Hour: A ‘tweet’ for the birds
Caring for wildlife is an integral part of #EcoChurchInAnHour John shows Bishop Robert the bird boxes that the church in Daglingworth has put up around the churchyard. They have madeContinue reading
Faith in a time of climate change
Getting inspired about climate change, by the Revd Simon Witcombe, Senior Chaplain, University of Gloucestershire “You know you’re getting old when you remember the person coming to give the annualContinue reading
Eco Church in an Hour: Flower power
Former florist Julia shares how flowers are powering her move to a greener church.
Energy Footprint Tool is live for 2022
What’s your church’s energy footprint?
To help our Diocese get to net-zero carbon by 2030, find your church’s energy footprint with this handy tool.
Eco Church In An Hour: Church cleaning
Elizabeth Hutchison from Daglingworth is our #EcoChurchInAnHour star of the week. Liz has been a member of the Church of the Holy Rood for over 35 years and coordinates aContinue reading
Eco Church in an Hour: Registration
Churchwarden Roger Eldridge looks after the stunning St Mary’s Church in Edgeworth which achieved a Bronze Eco Church Award on first registration for the scheme. Bishop Robert visited him toContinue reading
Eco Church in an Hour: getting started is easy!
Eco Church in an Hour is a new campaign that helps your church go ‘green’. Developed by the Diocese of Gloucester in partnership with A Rocha, we’re asking all churchesContinue reading
Creation care, gardens and churchyards
Blog by the Revd Cate Williams, Environmental Engagement Officer for the Diocese of Gloucester A few things have crossed my path over the last few weeks that shareContinue reading
