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Category: Creation Care

Powering Our Future

Solar panels fitted to church building roof

A Solar Journey at Our Church We’re excited to share the story of our ambitious solar panel installation project – a journey that began with generous hearts and ended with clean, renewable energy powering our church community. A Legacy of Sustainability Our solar story began with the generous £25,000 legacy gift from Brian Bliss, which […]

Palm Oil and Creation Care

Palm Oil worker

Questions for Community Action Preamble: Understanding Our Role in the Palm Oil Crisis The palm oil crisis represents a complex intersection of consumer demand, industrial food production, and environmental impact. As consumers in developed nations, our appetite for affordable, convenient, and shelf-stable processed foods has directly fuelled the expansion of palm oil plantations across the […]

Solar Energy and Our Church

Solar panels

We are all familiar now with the sight of solar panels on roofs around us and may have wondered whether it would be a good idea for us, only to dismiss it as being far too expensive.

My Bills are soaring – What can I do?

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Here are the 7 steps you can take to make a start on saving the planet and your bank balance! Contrary to popular belief the energy cap will not cap your bills. It’s a cap on “average bills”. So if you use more energy than average, your bills will be above the prices quoted by […]

My Visit to the Franciscan Friary

Franciscan Friary visit

On the first weekend of March I joined some fellow Christian Climate Action (CCA) members for a retreat at Hilfield Friary, An intentional community in North Dorset. It was certainly an inspiring, relaxing and contemplative weekend. Here, a core of four Franciscan brothers and a wider community of members and volunteers young and old, single […]

Climate and Ecological Crisis?

Climate and Ecological Crisis

From 31 October to13th November the COP26 summit will take place in Glasgow. World leaders will gather to accelerate the action towards the goals of the 2015 Paris agreement. Excessive amounts of gases, such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane, are increasing in our atmosphere. This is causing a catastrophic greenhouse effect. It is […]

Data Protection Policy

Under Data Protection legislation the church Charity Trustees of Saltash Baptist Church are the Data Controllers and the Church Secretary acts as our Data Protection Officer. We are collecting this information to enable the church to keep in touch with you and provide pastoral support as appropriate.

Data Protection legislation allows us to process this information as we regard it as being in the church’s legitimate interest. Your name and contact details will be entered into our church database which is held on the church office computer and cloud system which is password protected and accessed only by the Ministers, Church Secretary and Church Administrator. Your contact details will be removed from the database once you are no longer a member of the church – unless you ask to remain as one of our “church friends”. We would like to include your name and contact details in our Church Directory which will be accessible through ChurchSuite . If you are happy for your details to be included please indicate where asked to do so. You can ask for your details to be removed at any time.

To enable us to provide adequate pastoral support to you and your family, one of the Ministers may record information which may be regarded as sensitive. This information will be stored (in password protected documents) on the church computer and Cloud System but the password will only be known by the Ministers. This information will NOT be disclosed to anyone else without your consent. You have the right to ask to see any information we hold about you (including the pastoral support information) by submitting a ‘Subject Access Request’ to the Church Secretary. You also have the right to ask for information which you believe to be incorrect to be rectified. If you are concerned about the way your information is being handled please speak to our Data Protection Officer. If you are still unhappy you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Office.

LAST REVIEW DATE 2019

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