 Eco Congregation
Our 20:20 Vision Statement adopted in 2009 has six objectives to implement, one of them being “to strive for a fairer, greener world – by expanding our mission projects, by becoming a Fairtrade Church, and becoming an Eco Congregation”. We have a committee, which reports to our Church Council, entitled Eco Matters, which has the responsibility to deliver this promise.
Our first Eco Congregation Award came in 2011 followed by our second in 2014. The scheme which is managed by A Rocha has now become Eco Church which provides bronze, silver and gold status, and we are now working towards these. Our purpose in taking part in this, is not primarily to win an award but to use the award system to concentrate the attention of our Church on becoming responsible for our planet. Both individually and corporately, we are wanting to ensure that we honour the fact that “The Earth is the Lord's".
 Fairtrade
Our 20:20 Vision Statement adopted in 2009 has six objectives to implement, one of them being “to strive for a fairer, greener world – by expanding our mission projects, by becoming a Fairtrade Church, and becoming an Eco Congregation”. We have a committee, which reports to our Church Council, entitled Eco Matters, which has the responsibility to deliver this promise.
Our daily coffee morning at Victoria uses Fairtrade coffee, tea and sugar and all Church groups that meet both on our premises and in members’ homes e.g. house groups, are encouraged to do the same. Community groups that use our premises have a paragraph in their letting agreement, stating that we are a Fairtrade Church, and they are asked to use appropriate products. We subsequently became a Fairtrade Church in 2011.
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