These resources will help your place of worship / faith community to take actions to contribute to the Cool 2 Strategy.
Energy (including buildings and heating systems)
Asking elected members to support the climate and to challenge decisions make at local and central government
- Energy Projects Plus - Wirral based charity providing a free energy advice helpline for householders; energy projects; training and information for places of worship / faith communities.
- Green Energy
- Information on green energy suppliers is available from Which and MoneySavingExpert
- Compare green energy suppliers with Energy Helpline
- Advice on caring for historic places of worship from Historic England
- Historic England guide on repairing and draught-proofing windows and doors in historic buildings
- Active Travel in the Liverpool City Region - Advice from Merseytravel
- Cycling in Wirral - Cycle routes and information from Wirral Council
- Wirral Walking Guides - Walking routes to help you explore the Wirral
- The Wirral Circular Trail - A 35 mile walking and cycling trail around the Wirral coastline
- Travel Survey (Word document) - Find out how your community travel around the local area
- Wirral air pollution forecast from UK Air
- Get a free Air Quality Monitor for your school from SAMHE (Schools' Air quality Monitoring for Health and Education)
- addresspollution.org - Get a free Air Quality report for your address
- Carbon Literacy - We are qualified to deliver Carbon Literacy training and can run a session for your group. The taster slides and script below, are available for you to use.
- Carbon Footprint - Measuring your carbon footprint then allows you to work out the impact of any changes you make to your lifestyle to reduce it
- Eco Tips (Word document) - Suggestions for your community
- Environmental actions template (Word document) - Create a list of environmental actions to display or hand out in your place of worship
- Great Big Green Week - The UK’s biggest celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature
- Faith for the Climate - Encouraging and inspiring faith communities in their work on climate change
- Lifestyle Audit - We have run these lifestyle audit projects with a number of different faith groups as a way of measuring the behaviour of their community members and generating ideas for actions that can be taken
- Food
- Fairtrade Foundation - Information on Fairtrade and where to buy fairly traded products
- LOAF Principles - How buying Locally produced, Organically grown, Animal friendly and Fairly traded food can help reduce your carbon footprint
- Waste and resources (including clothing)
- What goes in which bin - A printable list of what goes in your grey, brown or green wheelie bins
- Gillmoss Recycling Discovery Centre - Offers free tours for schools and community groups to see how household waste is recycled
- Zero Waste LCR - Ideas for reducing waste across the Liverpool City Region
- Free Uniforms for School (FUSS) - A Wirral charity that collects and recycles school uniforms
- The Great Swap Shop - A project Faiths4Change ran with schools aiming to change behaviours towards textile consumption and explore sustainable, planet friendly fashion
- Buy Nothing Day - Challenge consumer culture by switching off from shopping for a day
- ReciproCity Wirral - Paint recycling and discount DIY store in Wallasey
- Purchasing
- Mersey Green Network Map - A map of eco businesses; shops; places of worship, community gardens; groups and much more in the Liverpool City Region
- Scouts Environmental Conservation Badge - This 6 week project originally run with the Wirral Deen Centre scout group links the Environmental Conservation Badge with the Cool 2 Climate Strategy areas of working with young people and waste and resources
- Youth groups/Kids' Eco Club
- Ideas for activities (PDF)
- Wirral's Wild 50 activity sheets - Activities for children around 50 species of plants and animals that can be found on the Wirral
Asking elected members to support the climate and to challenge decisions make at local and central government
- Local Councillor contact details are available on the Wirral Council website
- MPs contact details can be found by searching for their name on the internet, you can also find out what they have voted on and their areas of interest at They Work For You
- Hope for the Future - A charity that helps communities, groups and individuals across the country engage with their local politicians on climate change
- Wirral Wildlife Trust - Wildlife events, resources and volunteering on the Wirral
- Wirral Tree Pledge - Pledge to plant a tree in your garden or on your land
- Wirral Parks and Countryside - Volunteering information and Friends of the Parks groups
- Incredible Edible - Food growing in community spaces