Creation Care

Taking our responsibility for God's creation seriously

All Saints takes its Environmental responsibility seriously. Setting out specific actions to take as part of our Mission Action Plan in 2021 – including having a net zero carbon footprint by 2030.

We committed to:

  • have an annual Environmental service
  • reduce energy footprint, becoming net carbon neutral by 2030, consider insulation, heating and energy sources, double and secondary glazing.
  • harvest rainwater for use in appropriate contexts (loos and gardening)

And we have already made progress in all three areas – having annual Eco-Sunday services, installing draft excluders and planning to install insulation as part of our roof restoration. We have also installed a water butt in the memorial garden. But there is so much more to do to reach a net-zero Carbon footprint by 2030. 

Improving our Lifestyles

After our Eco-Sunday service in 2020 a number of suggested actions were proposed, which have helped us reach our Bronze award. Many of these were under the category of Lifestyle. Can you improve your impact on God’s creation.

Auditing

Why? Changing our personal lifestyles is essential if we’re to worship God with heart, soul, mind and strength – and love our neighbours as ourselves.

How? A personal lifestyle audit helps you identify where you are doing well and where you could improve. There are many available measuring slightly different things.
Individuals can take the Creation Care survey alone or churches can register as well. As households participate, the church they belong to, will see the collective impact of individual choices.
Auditing your personal carbon footprint in detail enables you to set goals to reduce it and to offset the carbon you can’t eliminate.

Audit Your Lifestyle

Local Travel

WALKING – Walk where you can. It’s good for your health as well as the environment. Buy waterproof clothes so you can walk when it’s raining. Listen to the Norwegians who say ‘There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing’.
CYCLING – Remember those waterproof clothes for inclement weather – make them brightly coloured to be sure you will be seen. Don’t forget to fit good lights too. Visit one of the route mapping websites to find the quickest, moderate and quietest route alternatives for your journey: https://www.cyclestreets.net/ or https://www.cyclinguk.org/ – Visit http://www.sustrans.co.uk/ for all your cycling q’s.
GIVE PUBLIC TRANSPORT A (SECOND) CHANCE – Covid-19 may have changed the way you think about public transport. Most of us know using public transport is better for the environment. Channel 4’s Dispatches checked surfaces for germs in locations across the country in October 2020 – and concluded that trains and buses were more hygienic than the cafes, supermarkets and hotels it also tested.

You and Your Car

Why? Transport accounts for a fifth of all global CO2 emissions, with passenger vehicles contributing to nearly half of that figure. Motorised transport, of all types, is heavily fossil-fuel dependent.

How? Here are some tips to emulate the test conditions and improve your fuel efficiency:
Your driving:
Avoid sudden braking and unnecessary acceleration.
Drive more slowly. You use 15% less fuel driving at 60mph than at 70mph.
Don’t use air conditioning. At speeds <40mph windows do not impact efficiency.
Turn the engine off when idling if you expect to be idling for more than 10s.
The car:
Remove wind resistance and weight.
Keeping tyres inflated and maintaining the car can save 10% of fuel costs.
Planning your trips:
Plan to drive outside of rush hours; stop/start is very inefficient.
Add short drives together, cars are more efficient when the engine is warm.
Google Maps has pledged to start to show the most eco-friendly route by 2030.
If possible, use other forms of transport which are more energy efficient.

You and Your Energy

QUICK WINS AT HOME
The Energy Saving Trust suggests the typical home can save £270 per year, and associated carbon emissions, from some fairly simple, quick wins. Top of the list are using smart heating controls and turning down the thermostat.
Perhaps most shockingly, ‘switching off standby’ is third on the list. How many things are left on standby each night, and worse, whilst you are away on holiday? TVs, broadband routers, computer monitors, chargers, printers, laptops, games consoles or smart speakers all consume small amounts of energy whilst on standby.
Turn down room thermostats or thermostatic valves on individual radiators on a room by room basis. Turn the heat off completely when the room is empty or if you are away on holiday (provided of course it’s not going to be below freezing).
KEEP THE HEAT IN AND THE COLD OUT 
Insulate, reduce draughts and double glaze everywhere you think might be losing heat: the walls, the roof, the hot water tank, pipes and the loft hatch are first places are all candidates. It keeps the heat in during the winter and out during the summer.
WHAT ABOUT APPLIANCES?
Tumble dryers and high temperature washing are costly both financially and in carbon emissions. Dry clothes outside if possible. Can you wash your clothes less often or at a lower temperature?
Use the dishwasher on an ‘eco’ setting only and only when full.
Don’t put more water in the kettle than you need – it is one of our most electricity intensive appliances.
Buy A+ rated when replacing, or buying new, electrical appliances:
By choosing a green energy provider and reducing domestic energy consumption, we can save both the planet and our pounds.

RSPB Birdwatch 2024

26-28 January 2024

Register to take part in the world’s largest wildlife survey – registration opens in December.
On the day of the Big Garden Birdwatch itself, taking part couldn’t be simpler. You just spend an hour watching the birds in your garden, from your balcony or in your local park, and tell us what you’ve seen. If you see very few birds or none at all, that’s also really useful information for us, so please let us know. You could choose to do this in the Memorial Garden or a local park.

Not sure you will recognise them – use the RSPB bird identifier to help you find out which bird you are looking at.

Register
Bird Identifier
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Privacy Notice – General

Your personal data – what is it?

“Personal data” is any information about a living individual which allows them to be identified from that data (for example a name, photographs, videos, email address, or address). Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) and other legislation relating to personal data and rights such as the Human Rights Act 1998.

Who are we?

This Privacy Notice is provided to you by the Parochial Church Council (PCC) of All Saints’ Child’s Hill which is the data controller for your data.

The Church of England is made up of a number of different organisations and office-holders who work together to deliver the Church’s mission in each community. The PCC works together with:

  • the incumbent of the parish (that is, our priest-in-charge);
  • the bishops of the Diocese of London; and
  • the London Diocesan Fund, which is responsible for the financial and administrative
    arrangements for the Diocese of London.

As the Church is made up of all of these persons and organisations working together, we may need to share personal data we hold with them so that they can carry out their responsibilities to the Church and our community. The organisations referred to above are joint data controllers. This means we are all responsible to you for how we process your data.

Each of the data controllers have their own tasks within the Church and a description of what data is processed and for what purpose is set out in this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice is sent to you by the PCC on our own behalf and on behalf of each of these data controllers. In the rest of this Privacy Notice, we use the word “we” to refer to each data controller, as appropriate.

What data do the data controllers listed above process?

They will process some or all of the following where necessary to perform their tasks:

  • Names, titles, and aliases, photographs;
  • Contact details such as telephone numbers, addresses, and email addresses;
  • Where they are relevant to our mission, or where you provide them to us, we may process
    demographic information such as gender, age, date of birth, marital status, nationality, education/work histories, academic/professional qualifications, hobbies, family composition, and dependants;
  • Where you make donations or pay for activities such as use of a church hall, financial identifiers such as bank account numbers, payment card numbers, payment/transaction identifiers, policy numbers, and claim numbers;
  • The data we process is likely to constitute sensitive personal data because, as a church, the fact that we process your data at all may be suggestive of your religious beliefs. Where you provide this information, we may also process other categories of sensitive personal data: racial or ethnic origin, sex life, mental and physical health, details of injuries, medication/treatment received, political beliefs, labour union affiliation, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning sexual orientation and criminal records, fines and other similar judicial records.

How do we process your personal data?

The data controllers will comply with their legal obligations to keep personal data up to date; to store and destroy it securely; to not collect or retain excessive amounts of data; to keep personal data secure, and to protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and to ensure that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

We use your personal data for some or all of the following purposes:

  • To enable us to meet all legal and statutory obligations (which include maintaining and publishing our electoral roll in accordance with the Church Representation Rules);
  • To carry out comprehensive safeguarding procedures (including due diligence and complaints handling) in accordance with best safeguarding practice from time to time with the aim of ensuring that all children and adults-at-risk are provided with safe environments;
  • To minister to you and provide you with pastoral and spiritual care (such as visiting you when you are gravely ill or bereaved) and to organise and perform ecclesiastical services for you, such as baptisms, confirmations, weddings and funerals;
  • To deliver the Church’s mission to our community, and to carry out any other voluntary or charitable activities for the benefit of the public as provided for in the constitution and statutory framework of each data controller;
  • To administer the parish, deanery, archdeaconry and diocesan membership records;
  • To fundraise and promote the interests of the Church and charity;
  • To maintain our own accounts and records;
  • To process a donation that you have made (including Gift Aid information);
  • To seek your views or comments;
  • To notify you of changes to our services, events and role holders;
  • To send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you. These may include information about campaigns, appeals, other fundraising activities;
  • To process a grant or application for a role;
  • To enable us to provide a voluntary service for the benefit of the public in a particular geographical
    area as specified in our constitution;
  • Our processing also includes the use of automated systems when you visit our website including cookies to help improve your experience when browsing our website and personal identifiers from your browsing history to enable us to assess the popularity of the webpages on our website, further information about our use of cookies is available on our website (https://www.allsaintschildshill.com/cookie-policy/)
  • Our processing also includes the use of CCTV systems for the prevention and prosecution of crime.

What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

Most of our data is processed because it is necessary for our legitimate interests, or the legitimate interests of a third party (such as another organisation in the Church of England). An example of this would be our safeguarding work to protect children and adults at risk. We will always take into account your interests, rights and freedoms.

Some of our processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation. For example, we are required by the Church Representation Rules to administer and publish the electoral roll, and under Canon Law to announce forthcoming weddings by means of the publication of banns.

We may also process data if it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or to take steps to enter into a contract. An example of this would be processing your data in connection with the hire of church facilities.

Religious organisations are also permitted to process information about your religious beliefs to administer membership or contact details.

Where your information is used other than in accordance with one of these legal bases, we will first obtain your consent to that use.

Sharing your personal data

Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential. It will only be shared with third parties where it is necessary for the performance of our tasks or where you first give us your prior consent. It is likely that we will need to share your data with some or all of the following (but only where necessary):

  • The appropriate bodies of the Church of England including the other data controllers;
  • Our agents, servants and contractors. For example, we may ask a commercial provider to send out newsletters on our behalf, or to maintain our database software;
  • Other clergy or lay persons nominated or licensed by the bishops of the Diocese of London to support the mission of the Church in our parish. For example, our clergy are supported by our area dean and archdeacon, who may provide confidential mentoring and pastoral support. Assistant or temporary ministers, including curates, deacons, licensed lay ministers, commissioned lay ministers or persons with Bishop’s Permissions may participate in our mission in support of our regular clergy;
  • Other persons or organisations operating within the Diocese of London including, where relevant, the London Diocesan Board for Schools and Subsidiary Bodies;
  • On occasion, other churches with which we are carrying out joint events or activities.

How long do we keep your personal data?

We will keep some records permanently if we are legally required to do so. We may keep some other records for an extended period of time. For example, it is current best practice to keep financial records for a minimum period of 7 years to support HMRC audits. In general, we will endeavour to keep data only for as long as we need it. This means that we may delete it when it is no longer needed.

Your rights and your personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

When exercising any of the rights listed below, in order to process your request, we may need to verify your identity for your security. In such cases we will need you to respond with proof of your identity before you can exercise these rights.

  1. The right to access information we hold on you
    • At any point you can contact us to request the information we hold on you as well as why we have that information, who has access to the information and where we obtained the
      information from. Once we have received your request we will respond within one month.
    • There are no fees or charges for the first request but additional requests for the same data may be subject to an administrative fee .
  1. The right to correct and update the information we hold on you
    • If the data we hold on you is out of date, incomplete or incorrect, you can inform us and your data will be updated.
  1. The right to have your information erased
    • If you feel that we should no longer be using your data or that we are illegally using your data, you can request that we erase the data we hold.
    • When we receive your request we will confirm whether the data has been deleted or the reason why it cannot be deleted (for example because we need it for our legitimate interests or regulatory purpose(s)).
  1. The right to object to processing of your data
    • You have the right to request that we stop processing your data. Upon receiving the request we will contact you and let you know if we are able to comply or if we have legitimate grounds to continue to process your data. Even after you exercise your right to object, we may continue to hold your data to comply with your other rights or to bring or defend legal claims.
  1. The right to data portability
    • You have the right to request that we transfer some of your data to another controller. We will comply with your request, where it is feasible to do so, within one month of receiving your request.
  1. The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time for any processing of data to which consent was sought.
    • You can withdraw your consent easily by telephone, email, or by post (see Contact Details below).
  1. The right to object to the processing of personal data where applicable.
  2. The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Transfer of Data Abroad

Any electronic personal data transferred to countries or territories outside the EU will only be placed on systems complying with measures giving equivalent protection of personal rights either through international agreements or contracts approved by the European Union. Our website is also accessible from overseas so on occasion some personal data (for example in a newsletter) may be accessed from overseas.

Further processing

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.

Contact Details

Please contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or the information we hold about you or to exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints at:

The Data Controller,
All Saints’ Church
Church Walk, Child’s Hill
London, NW2 2TJ
Email: [email protected]

You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

If you have any question regarding our privacy policy, please contact us.