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Last updated 31st March 2025

Energy Footprint Tool

The Church of England's Energy Footprint Tool is open until 30th June 2025 for churches to enter energy use from 2024. 

For any queries or support with completing the EFT, please contact Joy.Rushton@Blackburn.Anglican.Org

Thank you to the 176 churches (67% of the diocese) that had completed their 2023 EFT returns

At 31st March 2025, 52 churches had provided their 2024 EFT returns

The data collected from the tool will help your church understand your carbon footprint, identify possible ways of reducing your energy bills and will mean you may be eligible for grants to help kickstart your net zero projects.

The work is an essential part of caring for God's creation by helping to combat climate change that is impacting some of the poorest nations globally.

What's being asked of me?

Simply enter your church's energy figures from the calendar year before.  Once you have entered all the data, you will immediately receive a report and results on your computer, tablet or smartphone.

This includes:

  • The church's carbon footprint in CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent)
  • A simple assessment of your buildings' efficiency in graphical form

What do I need to get started?

You will need your utility bills for the year before: electricity, gas, oil or whichever other fuel you use.  For example, if you are completing it in 2025, you will need your 2024 bills.  If you have solar panels, find information on their generation over the preceding year.

If you have a separate church hall please add this building and enter the bills for this too.  If you want to exclude an area which is permanently rented out to tenants and sub-meretered, you will want this information to hand.

Please remember when entering this data that a good estimate is fine - these numbers do not need to be 100% accurate as long as they are in a relevant ball park.

The system is open until 30th June and you can find it on the online Parish Returns System: Parish Returns Online (churchofengland.org)

Completing your EFT data (and registering for Ecochurch (Eco Church - An A Rocha UK Project)) is a pre-requisite for accessing net zero grants from the national church or diocese

Where can I find resources to help?

The following are resources to help you complete your return:

At Diocese and national level a high completion rate helps us know our carbon baseline - where we are starting from - and how much progress we are making.

100% Renewable tariffs

The list of companies offering renewable energy tariffs that are recognised as 100% renewable in the Energy Footprint Tool can be found here: 2025 data

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