These resources will help your place of worship / faith community to take actions to contribute to the Cool 2 Strategy.
Cool Places of Worship resources padlet - A collection of links to useful resources
Energy (including buildings and heating systems)
Asking elected members to support the climate and to challenge decisions make at local and central government
Energy (including buildings and heating systems)
- 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
- Travel Survey
- Cool Places of Worship Travel Survey 2023 (PDF document) - Summary of results of a survey undertaken by Places of Worship accross the Wirral in Summer 2023
- Travel Survey form (Word document) - Printable forms to run the travel survey at your Place of Worship
- Wirral air pollution forecast from UK Air
- 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
- 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
- Purchasing
- Climate Champions Shopping Workshop - Slides from the workshop, with resources and ideas of how to shop more ethically and reduce your carbon footprint
- Mersey Green Network Map - A map of eco businesses; shops; places of worship, community gardens; groups and much more in the Liverpool City Region
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Hope for the Future have provided some information packs on how to engage with Wirral Council and the four Wirral MPs
- Your Voice has Power: Talking to your local politicians about climate change and nature - Presentation from Hope for the Future at the Cool Places of Worship Meeting with Councillors on 1st February 2024
- Report from the Elected Members & Faith Communities Event
26th April 2024
- 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