MEMBERS of St Mary’s Church Embsay with Eastby are celebrating having achieved the Silver Eco Church Award. The Eco Church Scheme covers five categories: worship and teaching, buildings, land, lifestyle and community and global engagement. A number of new initiatives have helped the church to gain this award. The church now has a monthly environment theme through the year. A series of services, held online during the lockdown had an environmental theme with discussion groups afterwards. Members of the church were encouraged to carry out an audit of their carbon footprint in January. The vicarage has had a complete set of replacement windows and doors, and new damp proofing, making the building much more energy efficient (and warmer).
Solar panel project for town hoping to be first carbon neutral in County Durham A TOWN which aims to win the race to carbon neutrality has been awarded tens of thousands of pounds to help it reach the finishing line. Bishop Auckland Town Council has secured a £33,670 Rural Community Energy Fund grant towards a study looking for potential reductions in carbon footprint across the town. The funding, managed by the North East, Yorkshire and Humber Energy Hub and administered by the Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority, will focus on publicly owned buildings in the town, how carbon footprint reductions can be made and whether they are suitable for roof-mounted Solar PV systems.
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