The St Peter’s community is on a journey to:
- use our resources more efficiently
- to contribute to the Southwark Dioceses’ net zero carbon emissions target
- to increase awareness in our Parish and Community of the importance of protecting our environment
- to connect members of our Parish and Community with actions that they can take on our Eco Journey
These initiatives will be supported by prayer for each other and for all those involved in making positive change to our consumption of world resources.
This page talks about some of the intiatives, big and small, already done or underway at St Peter’s and invites you to contribute your thoughts on steps we might take on our Eco Journey.
If you would like to be involved in our Eco Journey and have some ideas of intiatives we could take, please talk to Fr Steffan.
Email: frsteffan@stpeters-streatham.org
Phone: 020 8769 2922
Climate Prayer: Creator God, Giver of life, You sustain the earth and direct the nations. In this time of climate crisis grant us clarity to hear the groaning of creation and the cries of the poor; challenge us to change our lifestyles; guide our leaders to take courageous action; enable your church to be a beacon and foster within us a renewed vision of your purposes for your world; Through Jesus Christ our Lord, by and for whom all things were made. Amen
Our Garden
Each month a group gets together to work on our church gardens.
Would you like to join the team?
If so, please contact Fr Steffan:
Email:
frsteffan@stpeters-streatham.org
Phone: 020 8769 2922
We are lucky to have a large garden area surrounding the church. Features include:
- Trees: 28 different species
- Flower and shrub borders
- Bee hives
Our projects and recent initiatives
We are proud to have been able to contribute positively to reduce and offset our carbon footprint over recent years including the following:
2024: Split heating sytems and provide remote access
With the help of a grant from the Church of England’s Give to go green initiative, we were able to increase our energy efficiency at St Peter’s. This is a matched funding initiative. Members of our congregation gave very gerneously an took part in events to raise money towards two simple projects:
Part 1: Split the heating circuits
We identified the need to split the Church and our Vestries heating circuits so that we could operate the heating in these large areas of the building independently.
Put simply, we no longer need to heat the church when we use the vestry rooms on their own.
Also. the vestry rooms take much less time to warm up, and so it is possible to delay their heating to a more just-in-time pattern, rather than heating them at the same time as the church.
Part 2: Implement Remote Access to control Church, Vestry and Crypt heating through mobile phones
We arranged for the replacement of our thermostat and boiler controls with a Honeywell system connected to WIFI.
This allows our Crypt Manager to remotely set the heating schedule for crypt hire bookings. Our Vicar and Curate can remotely set the heating for appointments, services and events and our Clerk of Works can monitor the performance of the heating systems. All of the Theremostats were changed to a 7 days a week system, so that we can more preciselychoose when heat is applied.
2022: Installation to replace 35 year old chuch lighting system
This has enabled the reduction in CO2 consumption for our church lighting at 3083 kg CO2e per year. See more here.
2021: Ramp Lighting
Replacement of our 27 year old Disabled Ramp Lighting system resulting in a reduction of 746 Kwh per year which will achieve a reduction of carbon emissions equivalent to 158 Kg CO2e per year.
2020: Crypt Boiler
Replacment of our Crypt Room heating boiler with a modern efficient system.
2020: Pipe Lagging
Insulation applied to Church Heating Pipes in the Church Boiler Room
2009: New Garden
Recovery of church garden space to create a rear church garden.
