St Luke's West Holloway LED replacement church lighting

Case Study

Church	St Luke’s West Holloway, Hillmarton Road, London, N7 9JE
Cloudesley grant	SCBP grant May 2024: £10,000 Spring 2024 grant: £7,100
Total project cost	£20,300
Background	The project involved the replacement of all the church lighting (pendants and spotlights) with new LED fittings, and the addition of two new window lights, external lighting and lobby lighting. The main church lighting is now programmable to create lighting ‘scenes’ and controlled by a combination of switches and mobile devices. The project cost over £20,000 and was also supported with a £7,100 grant from the Spring 2024 round of the Main Church Grants Programme. Existing power supplies and lighting tracks were re-used to minimise the cost of the project. This allowed for an extremely cost-effective refit of the main church lighting, with over 80% of the funds paying for new light fittings and controls, and less than 20% meeting installation and commissioning costs. As a result of the project, St Luke’s report that the church is now more attractive and they have much more flexibility and control of their lighting to suit different events. Visibility is improved for those with visual impairments. They calculate that their new lighting has reduced their lighting carbon footprint by approximately 65%.
Contractors used	CES Lighting
Impact of the SCBP/Inspired Efficiency	The lighting improvement was identified as part of the 2017-18 audit and supported by Inspired Efficiency.