The PCC is the decision-making body of the church. It consists of the vicar, churchwardens, nine PCC members and two people who represent us on Deanery Synod. We are a registered charity: as such the PCC are the trustees. Within PCC we have the Parish Safeguarding Officer, Treasurer and PCC Secretary.
PCC meets 7-8 times per year. There are standing items such as safeguarding, health and safety, finance and a Vicar's report, plus other agenda items depending on the matters in hand.
Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM): Saturday 12th April 2025
We held our Annual Meeting on 12th April:
- Our two churchwardens David and Sandra stood down and we elected our new churchwarden, Louise Morgan.
- Joy and Gail stood down from PCC; Awaiz and Sandra were elected.
- Roger Moore has stepped down as our PCC secretary and Christine Bartlett will be taking over that role
- We also agreed to reinstate the rule that churchwardens should serve for a maximum of six consecutive years
- There was a good Q&A session, at which a number of points were asked of PCC.
Grateful thanks are due to all those who serve as our church officers, especially our outgoing wardens David and Sandra, and Roger our outgoing PCC secretary.
Summary of the meeting of the Parish Church Council (on 4th March)
- We approved our Safeguarding policy for 2025.
- We approved a new Safer Recruitment policy.
- There was a finance update and a discussion about whether refreshments donations were eligible for Gift Aid. The accounts for 2024 are not quite signed off yet.
- We agreed to ringfence certain legacy funds for improvements to the audio-visual equipment in church, and for capital expenditure on the project to place solar panels on the roof.
- There were updates on the following:
- Progress on enhancements to the audio-visual equipment in church.
- Safe Space initiative, which we hope will open in the Parish Centre later this year (probably September?).
- Solar Panels project - we have a £3k grant to fund a feasibility study.
- We had a discussion about seeking grant funding from the National Lottery Community fund and decided that if an application was successful we would be willing to accept the grant.
- There was a discussion about an enquiry from local members of the Ethiopian Orthodox church, about the use of our church for worship, once a month. We agreed to apply to the Archdeacon to seek approval for this.
- The Annual Parochial Church Meeting is on 12th April. PCC reviewed the written annual report for 2024.