5th March 2025
Thame Church has an Eco Action Group whose role is to champion Creation Care in the Anglican Churches in Thame and Towersey. St Catherine's Towersey won the Eco Church Bronze Award in 2022 and St Mary's Thame in 2024.
The award requires us to manage our buildings and land to minimise adverse environmental impacts and promote healthy relationships with nature. Recently we have installed a number of habitat friendly features within the Church yard.
We are also thinking about a reflective area in a section of the churchyard where the water table is too high to allow for burials. This would be an attractive space for the community to enjoy the peace of the churchyard and to celebrate nature. The wild flowers and features in that area would be designed to benefit wildlife.
We are quite restricted in what we can do to our Grade I listed church building, but we have had an Energy & Net Zero Carbon Audit and know that we will need to make a substantial investment to replace our ageing gas boilers with a heat pump system in the next few years.
We would like to invite everyone in the community, regular church-goer or not, to hear David Blackmore speak about Eco Action on 23rd March. David is a freelance film editor, but also secretary for Climate Action Wendover, a founder member of Bucks Community Energy, and a lay minister at St Mary's Church in Wendover. As well as celebrating achievements so far, he will cover further changes which we can make to help the environment through lifestyle changes.
Do come and join us at St. Mary's Thame on Sunday 23rd March, at 9:00 for a traditional style service or 11:00 for an informal family service and hear David speak.
For further information, questions or comments please get in touch with Andy Clark by email [email protected]
