Like the majority of our churches, the diocesan officebuilding in Worcester is not easy to heat and its important to find the bestcost for our gas and electricity while remaining true to our commitment tousing sustainable energy sources.
Using the Energy Basket through the Parish Buying servicehas enabled us to do this and switching has saved the Diocesan Board of Financea significant amount of money as well as the time spent searching for the bestdeal.
Parish Buying is a service set up to use the bulk buyingpower of the Church to negotiate competitive prices with suppliers across arange of different contracts. It isavailable to all churches and the Energy Basket is just one part of this.Through using the Energy Basket, churches can save money with a price based onwholesale energy purchasing, save time through not needing to renegotiate everytime a contract comes up for renewal and be confident that 100% of theelectricity is green from UK-based renewable sources. The transition to the Energy Basket was madevery easy by the team at Parish Buying.
I would encourage all parishes to look at their key areas ofspend to see whether Parish Buying can help reduce costs. Do look at the enddate of any existing contracts and investigate in advance whether the servicecan help. Its a great way that we can all buy and save together, reducingcosts across the whole of the Church of England.
