News and events

12 February 2020

Operation Noah joyfully welcomes the outcome of the Church of England General Synod debate on the climate emergency and carbon reduction target.

General Synod members voted by 144 votes to 129 to support an amendment from Revd Canon Prof. Martin Gainsborough, Chaplain to the Bishop of Bristol, to set a net zero emissions target of 2030.

Job Title: Communications Officer

Reporting to: The person in this role will report primarily to the trustee/s with oversight of communications. On Bright Now communications tasks, the person in this role will work with the Bright Now Campaign Manager.

Salary and hours: The person in this role will be engaged as a self-employed freelancer. We expect the job to take the equivalent of one day per week. The work would be done from home, with regular trips to our office near London Bridge. The remuneration will be at £150 per 7-hour day or equivalent.

Background: Operation Noah is the leading Christian charity campaigning on climate change. Our Bright Now campaign focuses on church investments becoming fossil-fuel-free.

Are you passionate about addressing the climate emergency? Would you like to play a key part in UK Churches’ engagement with the issue in 2020?

6 January 2020

Today, 20 UK churches, dioceses, religious orders and Christian institutions announce their divestment from fossil fuels. They join the growing ‘Fossil Free’ divestment movement, where faith institutions make up 29% of divesting organisations – the greatest proportion of divestment commitments globally. The global total of assets under management of divesting institutions has now surpassed $12 trillion.

Musica Antica Rotherhithe are holding a concert to benefit Operation Noah this February.

The ensemble will give Falvetti’s Diluvio Universale its UK premiere. With anthropomorphised elements competing over the right to end mankind and a gleeful Grim Reaper eyeing victims, it’s comedy of the darkest kind. But its pivotal message is of hope and redemption, presented in gorgeous music, and through a tale – Noah’s Ark – that can be understood by all.

When? Saturday, 22nd February, 2020 at 7:30pm

Where? Holy Trinity Rotherhithe, SE16 5HF

More information and tickets are available here.

On 20 November, at Trinity House (near Borough High Street) in London Churches Together in South London Big Gathering organise a Churches Together for the Climate event.

James Buchanan (our Bright Now Campaign Manager) and Holly Petersen (on of our trustees, speaking on behalf of Christian Climate Action) will give talks at the event.

There will be a climate conscious buffet from 6pm; main programme from 7-9pm. Contact Claire Crowley for more information and to RSVP.