St Chad's Church
Giving & Caring
Charities......Eco-congregation...Gifting
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The Eco-congregation (What's that?) News.... News.... News.... News.... News.... Churchyard News To everyone's surprise and delight, St Chad 's won the first Church Times Green Award in the Biodiversity category for our work in the churchyard. In addition to a handsome certificate and cheque for £500, we were also given an original painting of turtles (an endangered species). The painting now hangs in the Parish Office. I hope that our entry will be returned, and can then be placed at the back of church for all to read. In the meanwhile, the text of our submission is on the back table. On December 9th, Barry themed the traditional pre-Christmas Toy Service around St Paul 's letter to the Ephesians – “being rooted and grounded in love”. We were encouraged to think about the roots of our faith, our family and community. After the service, as part of Celebrate Leeds (800 years since the city gained its charter), four trees were planted between the “old” and “new” churchyard, near the Garden of Rest , in an area with no graves. The environment is one of the eight key themes of the city-wide celebrations and Leeds ' churches aim to plant 800 trees in school grounds, churchyards, and community areas. We were delighted to welcome two guests – our MP, Greg Mulholland, who planted an oak, and Councillor Brian Jennings who planted a yew. Ewan Outram, the youngest Beaver (in the year when the Scouting Movement celebrates its centenary), planted an oak, and Barry a yew, to replace the Millennium Yew which disappeared from the churchyard. Suzanne Dalton As a Churches Together initaitive this programme is supported by all denominations, encouraging Christians to take practical steps to care for our planet. Ideas are offered under various headings for ways of minimising our impact on the environment both personally and as an organisation. Find out more from the Eco-Congregation website About us Members of Green Team We gained an Eco-congregation Award in the summer of 2005. This lasts for three years. The plaque is set in a stone on the bank beside the church steps. In early spring it is surrounded by snowdrops, and in summer Ox-eye daisies. Achievements within the last twelve months include : . Collecting 30Kg of Christmas cards in January for the Woodland Trust to recycle. |
Recycling ...Wildlife & Churchyard ... News....Meet Thank you to everyone who has donated used reading glasses, mobile phones, printer cartridges, postage stamps, and plastic milk bottle tops during the past twelve months. All these items are recycled and benefit less fortunate people in the UK and around the world. As an experiment, we will also accept old hearing aids (place them in the same box as reading glasses). Hearing aids are refurbished by trained prisoners at Frankland Gaol, and sent out to South America, the Indian sub-continent and Africa , for people with hearing loss. Recycling Christmas Cards On Sunday 13th January , we will collect used Christmas cards (in the Parish Centre) for recycling by the Woodland Trust. If you cannot come to church on that day, please leave your cards at the back of church before that date. Cards cannot be accepted any later. Recycling Christmas Trees How to enjoy your live, unrooted Christmas tree all year: After Christmas, having removed the decorations, cut off the branches of the tree with secateurs leaving a short piece of branch attached to the trunk. Either , leave the branches to dry and put them through a shredder to use as mulch; or , if you don't have a garden shredder, cut them into slightly smaller pieces and put in the compost to aerate it. Keep the trunk to act as a plant support. Runner beans or sweet peas work particularly well on a ‘wigwam' of Christmas tree trunks as the snails hate the rough bark so they leave the juicy plants alone. And it saves buying bean poles! Beverly Leech Askey Recycling Initiatives at St Chad's |
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