The Church Times Green Awards
celebrating environmental action by churches

What they are for:

  • to acknowledge, encourage and support the practical environmental work done by churches and their congregations
  • to spread the word about environmental action and encourage other congregations to get started
  • to celebrate good practice, by featuring the shortlisted projects in the Church Times and at an Awards ceremony


Award categories:

  1. Action with the community - Conservation Foundation
  2. Biodiversity - A Rocha UK
  3. Campaigning to cut the carbon - Operation Noah/Christian Ecology Link
  4. Celebrating creation - Eco-congregation
  5. Changing Lifestyles - Tearfund/ A Rocha’s Living Lightly 24:1
  6. Energy saving in church buildings - Shrinking the Footprint/Marches Energy Agency
  7. International action - Christian Aid
  8. Young people - Christian Aid
  9. Overall award: Best of the best - Church Times


Timetable 2007:

Closing date for entries: 30 June
Shortlist announced: 31 July — each shortlisted project will be featured in the Church Times during August and September
Award ceremony: October/November (tbc)


How to enter, and the cost:

Churches may apply for different awards for different areas of their work (but not for different awards for one piece of work). Please send each entry separately, as we will be distributing them to different sets of judges.

Each entry must be accompanied by a cheque for £5, made payable to ‘The Church Times’. This is to help cover administrative costs.

Entries should be sent to: Green Church Awards, Church Times, 33 Upper Street, London N1 0PN. They cannot be returned unless a stamped, addressed envelope is included. We will endeavour to look after any material sent, but cannot be responsible for any loss.
Shortlists and winners will be published in the Church Times.

Small print:

The awards are open to any church of any denomination.

Since one of the key objects of the awards is to publicise successful projects, in order to encourage others to follow suit, entrants will be deemed to have agreed to their work being published by the Church Times or a sister organisation in both the newspaper and in other formats. Shortlisted churches will feature in the Church Times, and this will probably involve contact with a Church Times reporter. The judges’ decisions are final.