Our efforts to be good stewards of God's creation have been recognised with a Bronze Eco-Church award.
The Bronze award is a great start, and we are now working towards Silver. To find out more about the scheme, visit https://ecochurch.arocha.org.uk/.
Instead of throwing things away, why not collect them so that they can be reused or recycled?
The below items are collected in the the Hub.
The Church is open:
- Monday 10am – 1pm
- Tuesdays and Wednesday: 9am – 1pm
- Thursday 2 – 4pm
Please call the church office 01329 280762 before you come, to make sure the church is open.
For more information, contact Rachel Hicks on 01329 312895
Used Postage Stamps
These are collected by Hampshire Air Ambulance. They are sorted, bagged up and sold to stamp collectors around the world.
Coins
Any type of coin – UK or foreign, old or new. These are collected by Oxfam and sold to collectors.
Unwanted Spectacles
These are sorted by a team from the Lions Club of Chichester along with other volunteers. They support volunteers from the ‘Unite for Sight’ charity with a supply of spectacles to take with them on missions to countries across the world. Some specs are shipped directly to known contacts undertaking eye clinics in Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Nigeria and Nepal.
Unwanted Hearing Aids
These are collected and re-conditioned and sent to people in various places in Africa who need them. Please put each set/pair into a separate bag so that they stay together and can be used together.
Old Mobile Phones
These are collected by Oxfam and sold for recycling. The money raised goes towards Oxfam’s work across the world.
Used Ink Cartridges
These are given to Cartridge World in West Street so that they can be reused
Aluminium Foil
This must be clean and must be foil. Just because it’s shiny does not mean it’s foil! Use the scrunch test – if it stays scrunched when you open your hand, it probably is, if it unscrunches when you let go, it probably isn’t!
It is taken to the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Activities Centre (Manor Farm) where it is crushed, stored and sold to provide funds for the work of the centre providing activity opportunities for people of all abilities
Plastic Milk Bottle Tops
These must only be plastic milk bottle tops (nothing else) and must be clean. They are collected by Friends of the Earth, and are sold to a recycler who pays good money for them as they are a high quality plastic.
Don’t forget you can also recycle many other things:
- Soft plastics are taken by many supermarkets
- Glass and bottles can be taken to the many bottle banks around
- Empty pill packets can be dropped off at Superdrug