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St Mary's Ewell Communities Fund
Epsom, England, United Kingdom
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Aim
St Mary's aims to achieve carbon net zero with an air source heat pump, providing a warm, welcoming and safe place for all community events.
St Mary's is a kind, compassionate, loving, diverse, inclusive, vibrant and open church, offering a very warm welcome to people from all backgrounds, race, gender and situations in life without exception.
St Mary's is currently an A Rocha gold standard eco church. Our next environmental project is for both the Church and Church Hall to become carbon net zero. We have already secured funds to make the Church Hall carbon net zero, and we are now focusing on the Church building itself, which is the content of this project.
Within the Church building itself, St Mary's provides many open community events, including a community warm hub throughout the winter months, providing a warm, welcoming and safe place for people to seek refuge, companionship and improve their wellbeing particularly where their circumstances make keeping warm in winter challenging. By replacing an old gas boiler with an air source heat pump, this project will aid creating an open community pace at the rear of the church with kitchen facilities, and achieve carbon net zero aspirations, and improving long-term environmental sustainability. The estimated carbon savings are equal to 72 flights to Spain/year!
The fundraising target of this project is £12,000 and a stretch target of £30,000 which will cover the costs of installing three phase electrics, driven by whether the electric board will complete the installation fully themselves, or whether they confirm that they must sub-contract to a third party which will increase the costs. This depends on the power draw, if low draw costs are ~£12,000; if high draw ~£30,000. Final quotations and installation for the three phase electrics will take place alongside the installation of the air-source heat pump itself which is quoted at £41,257 and will be funded via a separate grant. We'll be unable to benefit from the air-source heat pump and achieve our carbon-net zero targets without the three phase electric installation, making this fund raising project essential to meet our goals!
Communities Fund provided £115 of match funding
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 27th November 2026 at 11:59pm