Eco Church is A Rocha UK’s award scheme for churches in England and Wales who want to demonstrate that the gospel is good news for God’s earth. Churches complete the online Eco Church Survey about how they are caring for God’s earth in different areas of their life and work. The answers a church provides will collect points towards an Eco Church Award – the more your church does, the more points you get.
The survey covers five key areas of church life:
As part of the Net Zero Carbon 2030 programme, Faiths4Change will support your church to sign up to become an Eco Church if you are not already registered and achieve your first award. If your church already has an Eco Church award, we will support you to progress to the next level.
You can find more details on the Eco Church award and sign up to become an Eco Church on A Rocha's Eco Church website
For individual help and support with your Eco Church journey please contact [email protected]
New Eco Church Survey
A Rocha launched an updated version of the Eco Church survey in October 2024.
Churches who have started existing survey have until the end of January 2025 to complete the work on it and submit it for an award.
So if you are most of the way through a survey and can submit it before the end of January, please do. If you are not far through, log in to your existing Eco Church account and start a new survey. There is no need to register again.
Here some links which may be helpful:
The survey covers five key areas of church life:
- Worship and teaching
- Management of church buildings
- Management of church land
- Community and global engagement
- Lifestyle
As part of the Net Zero Carbon 2030 programme, Faiths4Change will support your church to sign up to become an Eco Church if you are not already registered and achieve your first award. If your church already has an Eco Church award, we will support you to progress to the next level.
You can find more details on the Eco Church award and sign up to become an Eco Church on A Rocha's Eco Church website
For individual help and support with your Eco Church journey please contact [email protected]
New Eco Church Survey
A Rocha launched an updated version of the Eco Church survey in October 2024.
Churches who have started existing survey have until the end of January 2025 to complete the work on it and submit it for an award.
So if you are most of the way through a survey and can submit it before the end of January, please do. If you are not far through, log in to your existing Eco Church account and start a new survey. There is no need to register again.
Here some links which may be helpful:
- Read A Rocha's artcle about the new Eco Church survey
- Explore the new survey questions and category overviews on the Eco Church survey summary page
- Support navigating the Eco Church platform can be found on the Eco Church help page
- Explore A Rocha's Eco Church resources for support answering the survey questions.
Current numbers of Eco Churches in the Diocese of Liverpool
This includes St James House (Bronze), Bishop’s Lodge (Silver), and the Anglican Cathedral (Bronze)
As well as individual church awards, A Rocha award an Eco Diocese rating based on the Eco Church participation across a whole diocese. The Diocese of Liverpool is currently a Bronze Eco Diocese.
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