Live
Simply |
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Substantial |
Create wildlife garden and
worship space |
July 2013 to celebrate church
building’s 50th
anniversary |
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Supporting |
Have ecumenical nature walk and
picnic |
Spring 2013 |
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Hold indoor loaves and fishes
picnic, and give money saved to charity |
Lent 2013 |
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Make LiveSimply banner from
recycled materials |
Completed May 2012 |
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Appropriate music to enhance
Liturgy |
Montlhy throughout |
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Distribute LiveSimply prayer
cards for use at Mass |
Montlhy throughout |
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Live Sustainably |
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Substantial |
Switch church energy supply to
green supplier OR buy carbon offsets to reduce church and Presbytery
footprint by 10% |
January 2014 |
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Supporting |
Assist our school to develop its
Forest School project area. |
Spring 2013 |
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actions |
Encourage parishioners,
especially the young, to walk or cycle to Mass and meetings held on the
premises. Have special Sunday walk to
Mass day. |
April-September 2013 |
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Ensure planned refurbishment to
church hall is carried out sympathetically to the environment. |
December 2012 |
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Encourage synergy between
LiveSimply and Autumn Festival. |
October 2013/14 |
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Set up scheme for tree planting
on behalf of newly baptized, first Holy Communicants, confirmed and married. |
Throughout |
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Set up properly researched,
equipped and monitored recycling scheme and composting food waste from church
premises. |
From Autumn 2012 and continuing |
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Children's bulb planting
project. |
Autumn 2012 |
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Provide environmental
information on our website and with handouts. |
Throughout |
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Live in Solidarity
with the poor |
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Substantial |
Adopt CAFOD Connect2
project. Bangladesh selected and
introductory material received from CAFOD. |
As long as community needs us |
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Supporting
actions |
Engage younger parishioners in
prayer life through contribution to the liturgy, especially with the bidding
prayers. |
From Oct/Nov 2012 at regular
intervals |
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Collect used children’s shoes
for the Shoe Rafiki project. |
Throughout |
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Hold a Rich Man Poor Man dinner. |
Autumn 2012 |
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Sponsor a child or children
overseas. |
From January 2013 |
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Collect items for local food
bank and homeless centre. |
Throughout |
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Brownie badge work relating to
environment and world issues. |
2013 |
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Visit the housebound. |
Throughout |
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