Held on 11/09/2003
at 8 p.m. in the church.
3.
Matters to be raised under Other Business
4.
Minutes of the meeting of 29/07/2003
5.
Matters arising from the minutes
6.
Proposal for changes of meeting format
11. Roof & Restoration committee
Stanley
Price opened the meeting with a prayer. Richard took the chair.
PresentWendy
Cartwright Trish
Corrick Chris
Green Colette
Jeff Audrey
Morgan Thea
Oliver Stanley
Price Victor
Skinner |
Apologies John Cartwright Julie
Brown Richard Dingley Sylvia
Dingley Wilf
Lacey |
Minutes
were agreed as accurate.
The idea was explained by Stanley. It was agreed to give
it a try.
ACTION: Stanley to produce the next agenda, and the meeting to follow
the new format for a trial period.
7.1
The
draft questionnaire prepared by the worship group was discussed. Several
textual amendments were suggested and accepted. Apart from these suggestions,
the questionnaire was accepted by the meeting.
7.2
The
meeting was asked whether the questionnaire should be anonymous or not: there
were points for and against. We decided that in Draycott it would be anonymous.
7.3
A
provisional launch date of 1st November was fixed, with the
collection to be completed in 2 weeks. Further details to be finalised by the
worship group.
8.1
Bible
study: the first session of the ‘sermon watching’ to be held on the 2nd
October.
8.2
The
set of sessions (after Christmas) would be the mission of the church
(literature to be circulated beforehand).
8.3
We
are reminded of the invitation by Bishop Peter to a ‘First to the Lord’ meeting
for the Axbridge deanery on Tuesday 16th March (at the Kings of
Wessex school).
9.1
The
roof repairs have been started.
9.2
The
builders have offered to share the cost of the scaffolding, so that we would only
pay half price. Stanley suggested that we do not accept this, as it is the
builder’s fault that the works did not start before the bats started breeding.
Proposal: Stanley Price. Seconded: Wendy Cartwright. The motion was carried nem.
con.
ACTION: The PCC secretary to write to the architect to this effect.
Richard has the correspondence.
(Wendy Cartwright- see also
separate financial statement)
10.1
We
have now paid £1500 of our £10,000 parish share.
10.2
We
have paid £4,000 towards the latest roof work, and obtained a receipted
invoice. We are trying to get VAT back on this.
10.3
The
treasurer has been circulated with details of the Churches Aid Foundation
banking service. It is a high interest account, but to benefit we would need to
keep £1000 in the account. It seems a lot of difficulty for very little gain.
It was agreed that we stay with our present account with Lloyds.
10.4
It
was agreed that we should pay another instalment of £1000 for our parish share.
10.5
Two
covenants are due to expire, but should be replaced.
(Victor Skinner)
11.1 We have received £1000 from Wyvern (applause).
11.2 The government have not cancelled the tax credit, and so Victor has applied for more money.
11.3 The Sainsbury Family Grant have not responded.
11.4 The Heritage Lottery Fund require an application by the end of September. Victor intends to reply.
11.5
We intend to start with a ‘refreshed’ committee- we need a
larger one.
ACTION: Victor to write a letter of thanks, asking current members to
stay on; he is also inviting anyone else who is interested to come forward.
Ideally there should be 8-12 members.
11.6 A suggestion was put that we could form a separate charitable body, say a ‘Friends of St. Peters’. This was not thought to be likely to bring new support forward in our village, but it should be borne in mind.
11.7 The committee will be organising a fund-raising event over Christmas.
11.8 Victor was thanked for his leadership and hard work by the meeting.
(Thea Oliver)
12.1 School is back, and want to be involved in Harvest.
12.2 There are still vacancies for foundation parent governors. Stanley had tried to see several possible candidates, and was given some more names.
12.3 The school prospectus has no recognition or priority for parents of church children.
12.4 There might be some movement on the parish office front- the leases that were drawn up before the new school building have been located and copies will be sent to Stanley.
Next
PCC meeting: Monday 20th October. Following: Wednesday 7th
January (both at 8 p.m.)
No other business.
The meeting closed with the Grace.