We've been working hard over the year as a church, to care for God's good creation and share this with our community. We couldn't do any of this on our own, and we've been blown away by how people have gotten involved. Over our five Benefice churches, here's what we achieved in 2024:numerous car loads of items to the Bassetlaw Food Bank, including 123 items of children's clothing 'rescued' from a lane where they would potentially never degrade because of what they are made of, and spoiling our beautiful countrysideweekly drop offs for recycling of used medication blister packsused eyeglasses, pen and stamps recycled, instead of going to landfill30,900!! aluminium cans being recycled raising £412 for Tearfund's WASH initiative, helping support the creation of safe washing and drinking facilities for vulnerable communities147 plastic sweet tubs, as part of the TUBS2PUBS scheme, being recycled instead of going to landfill ( this scheme has recycled 230, 000 plastic sweet tubs over the last five years)A toilet in All Saints Mattersey twinned with one in a rural community in Tanzania ( raised from collecting small change during our regular quiz nights)700 bras collected as part of Bawtry against Breast Cancer month, either recycled, repurposed or reused via the Foodbank. 44 Christmas shoe boxes delivered as part of the Samaritans Purse schemeWe want to do more this year, so look out for more news from St Helena's.
Why not join in with one of these initiatives, either on your own, at work or with your local church? https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2024-05/sustainability-calendar-pdf-version.pdfSt Helena's will be getting involved with many of them over the year so keep watching this space and our Benefice Eco page on Facebook.
