by Rachel Westwood.
Fairtrade
Monday 22 September is the start of Fairtrade Fortnight - an opportunity to think about how we shop and what we buy, and to focus on fair farming practices, stopping child labour, fair prices, consideration for the environment and ensuring opportunities for producers and their communities. St Peter’s is a Fairtrade church and is committed to these values and to using Fairtrade products whenever possible.
This year’s Fairtrade Fortnight (https://www.fairtrade.net/uk-en/get-involved/campaign-with-us/current-campaigns/fairtrade-fortnight.html) is focussing on tea - something most of us buy and use - recognising that many workers and producers in the global tea industry face poverty, unsafe working conditions and the threat of climate change. As well as choosing to buy Fairtrade tea whenever possible, we can also help by signing a Fairtrade petition asking the Government to protect human rights and honour its climate finance pledge https://action.fairtrade.org.uk/page/171071/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=ftf_landing_page, and by writing to our MPs https://action.fairtrade.org.uk/page/171774/action/1?ea.tracking.id=ftf_landing_page
To buy Fairtrade, look out for the Fairtrade logo.
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We are proud to say that we have achieved the ‘Silver’ award level of the A’Rocha scheme. We intend to build on this and achieve Gold by recycling more, encouraging our church members and other churches to follow environmentally sensitive policies, and looking after our site (the churchyard) to promote ecological diversity and the wellbeing of the natural world. As part of this, we are thrilled to say that we were able to host the YCCN pilgrimage to the Glasgow Climate
Here’s our newly planted native (organic!) Yew hedge and our bee-friendly wildflower area which is showing good results!Summit!
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We have “recycling” boxes in the entrance to the Church and Hall where you can leave old mobile phones, stamps, spectacles and printer cartridges! These can often be sold to raise funds for the needy or passed to charities who can use them. We also can help with the recycling of many other things - contact us if you would like to help our Recycling efforts as we do need a new Coordinator!
We also try to feed the birds, encourage native wildflowers to grow in our grounds, and welcome people to use our space to relax - but please do so responsibly and do not leave litter! That’s what the bins and recycling boxes are for.