Welcome to our team page for Regeneration Works: Places of Faith. Our team of consultants and professionals have decades of combined experience in the field of helping faith communities, neighbourhoods, community groups, and communities as a whole create successful, community-specific solutions for buildings and people who use them.
Our Partner
Lucy Cummings
Senior Advisor
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Lucy Cummings (she/her) is a Senior Advisor and former Executive Director at Faith & the Common Good. She has designed numerous religious institutional carbon reduction programs and has extensive experience building and funding collaborative climate action initiatives with unconventional partners. Prior to Faith & the Common Good, Lucy co-founded the UK volunteer affiliate of Seacology (purpose: island biodiversity protection) and taught global politics at the University of Hong Kong. She is a Director of the United Property Resource Corporation (purpose: transforming surplus faith properties into green, affordable housing) and a member of the Parliament of the World’s Religions’ Climate Action Task Force. Lucy holds a BA in economics from University of Virginia, a MA in religious ethics from Yale, and a Ph.D. in global politics from Johns Hopkins University.
Natalie Bull
Executive Director - National Trust for Canada
Natalie has worked with project teams at iconic places like the Bar U Ranch, Parliament Hill, and the Vimy Monument, and led technical training courses on effective window conservation. Natalie is committed to making the National Trust an essential and effective partner in protecting places that matter.
Stephen Collette
Building Audit Manager
705-930-1011
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Stephen Collette is the Building Audit Manager for Faith & the Common Good. Stephen created the Green Audit after seeing an opportunity to improve the connections between faith, buildings, and the existing passion of people to want to do the right thing within their faith community. The Green Audit has been delivered across Canada to rave reviews. Recently, Stephen has expanded the types of building audits available to faith communities.
Stephen owns his own company, Your Healthy House, which carries out indoor environmental building inspections and consulting. Stephen is a Certified Building Biology Environmental Consultant, a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional and a Building Science Specialist. Stephen lives in Lakefield, ON with his wife and daughters.
Robert Pajot
Regeneration Project Leader - National Trust for Canada
Robert is Regeneration Project Leader at the National Trust for Canada. He is overseeing the development and delivery of the tools and training resources needed to help regenerate all types of historic places across the country.
Testimonials
Our faith community benefited from help with our mission statement. It gave us focus and goals, goals that we are excited about, to aim for! Thank you.
Mission Per Square Foot Participant
Mission per Square Foot
I have been a member of my church’s Transformation Team Project for the past couple years. This Peterborough workshop not only validated suggestions of our committee, but provided new directions to pursue. Thank you.
Workshop Participant
Workshop
The building audit truly opened our eyes to how we can better use our building to draw people in and save money at the same time.
Building Audit Participant
Building Audit