Dear Friends,
We have embarked on our journey to make our meetings more
sustainable. The task seems daunting and yet urgent. All our meetings are
unique – some have old meeting houses which are rarely used but loved; others
busy but difficult and expensive to upgrade. Yet our journey is a shared one.
There is so much we can learn from our experiences along the way.
Woodbrooke is developing a database to share this learning
and document our journey towards sustainability. The database will connect
meetings that are discerning how best to use their property and resources in
the face of the climate crisis with those that have done this and made changes.
These might be small or large, might be getting solar panels for the meeting
house or moving to a new meeting house or developing a garden as a place of
sanctuary. Sharing the process of discernment of deciding on small steps will
as important as telling the story of a major refurbishment.
We also know that there is a lot of expertise about property
and resources in the Quaker community – on making buildings sustainable,
project planning, care of burial grounds, natural gardens and so on. We hope
that some of those who have this expertise would be willing to share it with
the Quaker community, either as service or for a fee.
If your meeting has experience of making changes to your
property and use of resources to address the climate crisis and to make it more
sustainable – or if you have expertise in this area – and you are happy to be
contacted by Quaker meetings needing information and/or support, then please
fill in the form below. If you are not sure how to fill in the form or would
prefer to speak to someone, please contact tracey.martin@woodbrooke.org.uk
Any information you give us will be protected under GPDR
regulations and only shared with your consent. We will be in touch with some
people for further information and are also interested in documenting
experience to support learning. If you are interested in documenting your
experience, please tick the box.
In this time of climate crisis Quakers need to support one
another more than ever and we hope the database will enable us to do this in
very practical ways.
Thank you for getting involved.
In friendship
Tracey Martin, Peace, social justice and climate crisis coordinator, Woodbrooke
