Hadfield Methodist Church - Resources

Places of Welcome

Hadfield Methodist Church belongs to a network of Places of Welcome nationally. These are run by community groups who want to make sure everyone has a place to go for conversation and a cup of tea if and when they need it.

All Places of Welcome are open to everyone and offer:

• Friendship and hospitality;
• Regular opening at the same time each week;
• Free refreshments (donations welcome);
• Local knowledge about the neighbourhood.

Our Place of Welcome is on: Thursdays, 10:15 – 2:00pm as noted above

All of the above is completely free and you can come and stay as long as you like (within the opening times). There is WiFi available, and you can also plug-in to charge your mobiles.

This is a free community resource and open to everyone, so please drop in!

Repair Café

Our Repair Café is on the third Saturday of every month - see events page for more details

The Bureau at church

We are very pleased to be working with The Bureau who run a coffee morining based at the church on Tuesday mornings, from 10:30am (see poster here - opens in new page). The Bureau are now also offerring a councelling and practical help service on Tuesdays from 12:30pm (see poster here - opens in new page). With The Bureau's help we are in the process of getting an  Internet connection so watch this space for more annuncements regarding IT facilities.

Prayers for Ukraine

Here are links to some prayer resources you might find helpful:

• Methodist Church "A prayer for Ukraine"
• Methodist Church Ukraine prayers and other resources
• Archbishops of Canterbory and York prayer for Ukraine
• United Reformed Church prayers and other resources
• Baptist Union prayers and videos for Ukraine
• Christian Aid prayers and video
• CAFOD prayer and prayer links
• World Vision prayer for Ukraine
• John Rutter's new music setting for a traditional Ukraine prayer
• Bible Society of Ukraine Psalm 31

Supporting Ukraine

Our sister church Glossop Central Methodist Church, is acting as a hub for the collection of items to be taken to Ukraine by the Macclesfield Ukrainian Aid project. This poster has a list of the items being collected

Climate Change

Our church takes the climate emergency very seriously and has joined the Eco-Church netwrok. We are curently a Silver Eco-Church. Here are some climate links that you might like to look at:

• Eco-Church
• Christianity and climate change (videos from Tearfund)
• Methodist Church's Climate Change pages
• CPRE's (The Countryside Charity) Climate Change pages
• Friends of the Earth's Climate Change pages
• Greenpeace's Climate Change pages
• WWF's (World Wide Fund for Nature) Climate Change pages

Here are some hints and tips for eco-living that won't cost you much (or in some cases, will actually save you money):

How to use the Internet in a more eco-friendly way:

• Use a search engine that helps the environment. Ecosia helps by planting trees when you use is it as your search engine, and Panda does the same for wildlife via WWF. Others worth looking at are Ekoru for plastics and OceanHero for oceans. Use one of these instead of Google or Bing.
• You can go one stage further and install a web browser that automatically uses one of the above searches - both Ecosia and Panda provide web browsers for PC and smartphone. Another one to consider is Lilo, a French-made browser which donates 50% of its generated revenues to social and environmental projects.
• The Green Web Browser Extension shows you whether the web sites you are visiting are "green" or not. You can then choose (ideally) to avoid the non-green ones in the future.

• If you don't already bank ethically, consider switching to an ethical bank - the top three according to Ethical Consumer are Nationwide Building Society, Co-op and Cumberland Building Society The worst banks are Barclays (which includes Tesco) and HSBC (which includes First Direct).
• The best banks for savings accounts are Charity Bank, Ecology Building Society and Triodos; the worst are, again, Barclays and HSBC.
• For car insurance, there aren't any really ethical companies, but the best three (again according to Ethical Consumer) are: AXA, Covea and Swiftcover; the worst three are Zurich, LV and Tesco.
• For home insurance, the best three are: Naturesave, Ecclesiastical and Methodist; the worst three are, again, Zurich, LV and Tesco.

• There are now several good utility companies that offer green electricity, and a small number also offering green(ish) gas. 100Green is the only company that offers 100% green electricity and gas. Other good companies are Ecotricity, Octopus and Good Energy. Ones to avoid are E:ON (which includes Sainsbury's), EDF, Utility Warehouse and British Gas.
• Be aware of "greenwashing" where companies pretend to be green by using Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin (REGO) certificates - but this isn't really green at all and is like carbon-offsetting when flying! If you want to find out more about greenwashing, read this article from Good Energy.
• Batteries. We all use them! They are not green. But some are worse than others: here are the worst of the worst - Duracell, Amazon Basics, Energizer (which u nfortunately includes Rayvac who make hearing aid batteries). Better (but still not good) are Philips and Varta. User rechargeable batteries if at all possible.
• Lighting: When you need to replace a light bulb, replace it with an LED one. According to the Energy Saving Trust, lighting makes up 15% of the average UK household electricity consumption. If you replace all the bulbs in your home with LED lights, you could reduce your carbon dioxide emissions by up to 40kg a year. This is equivalent to the carbon dioxide emitted by driving a petrol car around 140 miles.

Stand up to Racism

We are proud to support the Derbyshire Stand up to Racism initiative.

STAND UP TO RACISM DERBYSHIRE is part of a national organisation which has local groups. We want to bring people together to challenge racism, celebrate diversity and show solidarity with refugees and migrants. 

Stand up to Racism was first established in 2014 in, response to the rise of racism both in Britain and across Europe.

More information available on their website here and on their Facebook page here.

Other resources you may find helpful:

The Derbyshire Recovery and Peer Support Service offer an Emotional Support Helpline to anybody who feels they would benefit from having someone to talk to about things they might be having difficulty with. You can call the helpline on 01773 734989 and press option 2. The helpline is open 9:00am – 7:00pm Monday to Friday and 9:00am – 5:00pm Saturday and Sunday. 

A Methodist Church FREE phone service to hear prayers and news from the, content is updated weekly. 

• Listen to a prayer: 0808 281 2514
• Listen to news: 0808 281 24784

From Rev Dr Roger Walton (Former President of Conference):- A Methodist Way of Life commitment card is available online at  www.methodistchurch.org.uk/MWoL Many people are downloading and finding it useful in this current situation.