Trinity is a Fairtrade church, using Fairtrade products wherever possible and promoting Fairtrade during Fairtrade Fortnight and throughout the year. www.fairtrade.org.uk
Trinity is an Eco Church, achieving the Bronze Award in 2016, reflecting our concern as a church to care for God’s earth in all areas of our life and work. www.ecochurch.arocha.org.uk
We support Christian Aid on an ongoing basis:
- Christian Aid – fighting global poverty christianaid.org.uk
We support different national/international charities through our Festival Appeals at Easter and Christmas each year. In recent years, we have supported the following international charities:
- Easter 2017 – Orbis Flying Eye Hospital – bringing people together to fight avoidable blindness gbr.orbis.org.uk
- Christmas 2017 – Medecins Sans Frontieres – providing medical humanitarian assistance in crisis situations msf.org.uk
- Christmas 2018 – Tearfund Toilet Twinning – enabling families living in poverty to have life-saving loos toilettwinning.org.uk
- Easter 2019 – Freedom from Torture – empowering survivors of torture to rebuild their lives freedomfromtorture.org.uk
- Christmas 2019 – Treeaid – growing trees to tackle poverty in Africa treeaid.org.uk
- Christmas 2021 – Tools with a Mission – sending unwanted useable tools to the developing world to create livelihoods twam.uk
- Easter 2022 Mission Aviation Fellowship – bringing airplane support to people living in isolated, remote communities in the developing world maf.org.uk
- Christmas 2022 ActionAid – working with women and girls living in poverty in the developing world actionaid.org.uk
- Easter 2023 Practical Action – putting ingenious ideas to work so that people in poverty can change their world practicalaction.org.uk