Eco Church

"Sustainability is a core Quaker value or 'testimony', together with truth, simplicity, peace, and equality."

We meet and talk regularly about achieving greater sustainability in all our personal lives, and believe that sustainability and care for the environment are religious, personal and political obligations for all of us. 

Alton Quakers have for a long time been committed to living as sustainably as possible.

Our Meeting achieved the bronze level award for EcoRocha Ecochurch in 2022 and we are now working towards the silver level.

"Find out more about the Eco Church scheme."

We have close links with a local churches together group that focuses on the Ecochurch scheme, a national project which champions, educates and encourages faith groups  working towards a more sustainable future. 

 Click here to find out more about the Eco Church scheme, and learn more about how your local meeting or faith group could get involved.

Although the Meeting House is very old and therefore is challenging to maintain we have made many small but significant changes. 

"We recycle all that we can"

For example we use an ethical energy provider, provide Fairtrade refreshments when ever possible and use ethical cleaning and household items which we buy from our local refill shop.

We recycle all that we can including milk bottle tops,
medication blisterpacks, toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes and have a collection point for the local foodbank.

We have made changes to how we manage our historic burial ground.

The grass is left to grow longer with an area left for an annual cut where we are working towards a wild flower area. We have started regularly surveying a section of this area to monitor the changes.

The group who volunteer in the burial ground have fixed up bird nesting boxes. Here is our hedgehog box, built using recycled materials by Michael, as part of his involvement with the local Men's Shed. 

We were delighted to have a Loving Earth Exhibition

We recently opened the Meeting House for Heritage Open Days and displayed 40 of the Loving Earth panels made by the Quaker Arts Network. Created by people from across the UK they illustrate loved habitats, plants and creatures threatened by environmental change.