Wesley Place Methodist, Alsager

'Spiritual' - making the link between Christian faith and creation cared:

• farm service for Harvest
• All age Harvest service, and LOAF harvest meal
• A Rocha speaker
• tackled issues of fair trade, recycling and energy conservation at Women's Fellowship
• other groups also addressed environmental concerns
• Water Aid supported during Lent
• Green tips in church magazine and pew leaflet
• home group looked at environmental issues as part of York course

Practical - church buildings, land and management:

• fruit tree and Buddleia in church grounds to attract wildlife
• green waste, waste paper, tins, bottles and plastic are all recycled
• low energy lightbulbs are replacing others
• some double glazed windows
• energy use monitored and reducing
• planted 48 tress in Mersey Forest 

Mission - reaching out to the local and/or global community:

• Fairtrade church selling Traidcraft goods, and leading members in Alsager Fairtrade town campaign
• auction and ebay sale of unwanted items
• support local charity for the homeless
• recycling of items encouraged: for sale (eg ink cartridges), and to charity (eg specs, mobile phones, tools, stamps, coins)
• batteries collected for safe disposal
• public meetings hosted on fairtrade and other global issues
• One World Week events in Alsager began at Wesley Place, and have expanded to a major event in the civic centre, and school assemblies
• other global charities supported