The Cool Places of Worship action strand is open to all places of worship and faith communities; it is a multi-faith project where people of different faiths work together as one to support, inspire, share and act to support the delivery of Cool 2 by reducing their carbon footprint and caring for our planet. All have an equal voice, are supported to be active, and engage in ways that work for them.
We are currently working with 14 core places of worship which can be seen as blue dots in the map above. The orange dots represent engaged places of worship.
A core Cool Place of Worship identifies an objective they want to work on. They then share this with others via the fortnightly online meetings or via Zarah who facilitates the project.
Other places of worship can decide to get involved and support the objective. Together they plan to host one or two workshops focused on the objective and actions they are taking as places of worship.
These actions contribute to their carbon reduction plan as well as providing learning points, giving ideas for changes they can make and informing their next steps towards becoming a net zero carbon place of worship.
Core Cool Places of Worship have focused on the following objectives, delivering information and workshop sessions:
Future planned sessions - open to all:
We are currently working with 14 core places of worship which can be seen as blue dots in the map above. The orange dots represent engaged places of worship.
A core Cool Place of Worship identifies an objective they want to work on. They then share this with others via the fortnightly online meetings or via Zarah who facilitates the project.
Other places of worship can decide to get involved and support the objective. Together they plan to host one or two workshops focused on the objective and actions they are taking as places of worship.
These actions contribute to their carbon reduction plan as well as providing learning points, giving ideas for changes they can make and informing their next steps towards becoming a net zero carbon place of worship.
Core Cool Places of Worship have focused on the following objectives, delivering information and workshop sessions:
- Fixing Food Systems (Social Supermarkets, Zero Food Waste, Fairtrade & Food Pantries)
- Make it Happen Birkenhead - Community hub, retail shop and social supermarket
- Wirral Zero Waste Community - If you are interested in volunteering, would like to advertise volunteering opportunities or have a space that can be used to sort and distribute food please email kathrynbowman@hotmail.co.uk
- Become a Fairtrade Place of Worship
- Energy & Heating (Energy Projects Plus, Introduction to Carbon Literacy, How to make you house energy efficient)
- Film Screening of ‘The Letter’ (pledges for action, global & community engagement)
- Youth Eco club (co-designing and delivering sessions on the environment and encouraging social actions with young faith communities)
- Fair Trade Quiz (raising awareness of Fairtrade, and biodiversity on the Wirral)
- Big Green Week- Tranmere
- Engaging with MPs
- Travel Survey
- A survey undertaken by Places of Worship accross the Wirral in Summer 2023
Future planned sessions - open to all:
- Pilgrimage for the Planet - Saturday 9th September
Join Christian Climate Action, Faiths4Change, Friends of Port Sunlight River Park and local faith groups on this pilgrimage around Port Sunlight River Park focusing on how we have shaped the landscape and how we can take responsibility for our waste? This event is open to people of all faiths and none.
Book tickets on Eventbrite - Make Polluters Pay Action Evening - Friday 22nd September, 7.00pm
Join some of the Cool Places of Worship at Claremount Methodist Church, Wallasey to hear about Loss and Damage through examples from speakers from Christian Aid and Fridays for the Future. We will also be making banners and placards ready for the national day of action on Saturday 23rd. Book tickets on Eventbrite