Held on 17/05/2004
at 7:30 p.m. in the church.
3. Minutes of previous meeting
6 c. PCC invitations to 'First to the
Lord'.
7 a. Village office for the vicar.
7 f. Area for cremated remains (dealt
with)
Stanley
Price opened the meeting with a prayer. Thea took the chair.
PresentJulie
Brown John Cartwright Wendy Cartwright Richard
Dingley |
Sylvia
Dingley Chris
Green Wilf
Lacey Thea
Oliver Audrey
Morgan |
Stanley
Price Victor
Skinner Lorne
Talbot |
Apologies Colette Jeff
|
A warm welcome to Lorne Talbot, our new member.
We must send a letter of thanks from the PCC to Tricia Corrick (ACTION: Chris)
Minutes of 30th
March were agreed as correct.
Additional meeting to be
recorded:
Extraordinary PCC meeting
called by Vic Skinner.
Date: 18th April
(after church on Sunday)
Purpose: to decide on whether to
accept the grant from English Heritage.
Present: Wilf Lacey, John and Wendy
Cartwright, Tricia Corrick, Chris Green, Vic Skinner
Motion: that we proceed with the
application for funding, under the conditions stated (initially involving us to
commit £3000 towards the costs of the initial project).
Proposed: Vic Skinner; Seconded:
Chris Green. The motion was agreed (nem con.).
7 b. (Hearing
loop etc.) If we have a temporary system it won’t need a faculty. A number of
us need this facility. (ACTION: Richard will look into it)
7 c. (Payment
of parish share). Not done yet.
7 e. (Area
for cremated remains) Sandblasting is expensive. The Rodney Stoke solution is
progressing- we should keep this under review. It will cost about £2,200.
7 g. (Welcome
pack). Tricia is progressing this.
Wilf raised the question of the ash tree in the churchyard. It was suggested that he cut it down.
·
Chair:
Thea Oliver
·
Secretary:
Chris Green.
·
Treasurer:
Wendy Cartwright.
·
Stewardship
secretary: John Cartwright.
NB.
We acknowledged that Wendy and John would be leaving us part way through the
year, and we would have to make new appointments. In the meantime we are very
grateful that they have agreed to stay in post.
ACTION: We should advertise for a treasurer in the newsletter.
Generally
the meeting was approving, although Audrey said that perhaps there was not
enough emphasis on initiatives to include youth participation.
Motion:
that the questionnaire should be used in its current form, and presented to the
congregation of St. Peters on the 30th May. It should be on 2
separate pages, to allow writing on the reverse.
Proposed: Richard Dingley; Seconded:
Audrey Morgan. The motion was agreed (nem. con.)
·
Invitations
had been received for all the PCC- these were distributed
·
The
Jeffs and the Browns have both kindly allowed Stanley office space, but this
was always a temporary arrangement and could not continue.
·
The
school wanted £500 a year to accommodate an office- this was not on in our
present financial circumstances.
·
The
church could be used on occasion, especially in summer.
·
An
office should be incorporated into designs for church reordering, if possible.
ACTION: Stanley can cope for the moment- we need a decision
by October. In the meantime, we should like to thank Julie and Graham, as well
as the Jeffs.
·
Nothing
new. We shall eventually need a small group to plan services in advance (say 6
months ahead).
·
We
shall re-launch the worship group when the current questionnaire project is
finished.
·
The
boiler is mostly off at the moment. We have had a gas leak- John got someone in
to fix it. We need to find someone to look at it and give it a service.
Suggested: firm of Mike Horwood. ACTION: Wilf will make contact.
·
The
recent balances of our accounts were circulated (update- the current general
account now stands at £2008.66).
·
Stanley
had asked for a budget and business plan. Wendy had taken advice, but the
suggested formats were too business-orientated.
·
Our
forecast income for this year is £12,965. Our forecast outgoings (including
parish share, but excluding roof repair) are £15,330. We therefore have a
shortfall of £2,365. What further do we need from a business plan?
·
Stanley-
we need it to plan how we going to plug this hole in our finances.
There was some discussion. The points put forward included: we will not pay our
parish share as our first priority (i.e. we can lower our expenditure by paying
less parish share); and that the parishes will eventually be re-organised.
ACTION: We shall not discuss this again for the time being.
·
In
answer to a question, Wendy said that the transfer of £4,500 from English
Heritage had not yet happened.
·
Our
main event is coming up- Cheddar Male Voice Choir on 19th June. We
have posters out. NB. The ticket price has been reduced to £6.
·
We
missed entries in the magazine for 2 months running, due to communication
difficulties with the editor. This was a pity- but we should be in next month
at least.
·
Other
forthcoming events for book sales: Stawberry Fayre, Lions (at Fairlands); Stall
at Wells market.
The
plan for the 30th June (patronal festival) was for a ‘Clypping
service’. Participants will surround the church holding hands. This will be
part of the 9:15 assembly. All are invited.
There are 51 on the electoral roll. On a ‘normal’ Sunday there are 20 attending.
The
next phase is to arrange a visitor. Either we get an external visitor, or we do
this ourselves. No-one really wanted the visitor (Stanley proposed that we do
not, Richard seconded, all agreed nem. con).
Stanley
laid out some impressively executed plans for our inspection, which we
discussed. He also reported back on the glass door (see previous minutes, item
7b- original suggestion was from Julie). This would be about £4,300.
ACTION: none for the moments, although we would return to the subject
when the roof repairs were in hand.
Sheila
Garrett was upset that at a recent funeral the Glebe field was opened for use
as a car park without her permission. John Cartwright said he had contacted
their house, and had been given permission.
We
were warned that they may sometimes have to refuse permission.
ACTION: Stanley will call on them.
We had received a letter from West Country Tiling, acknowledging receipt of their outstanding account, and answering our query regarding storm damage.
·
We
must do more. We should have some literature to give out to people.
·
Victor
said that we required publicity for our lottery funding. We could use the grant
as a headline and include extra details. English Heritage would themselves like
their support to be publicised.
ACTION: Victor will draft the first part of a report, and pass it on to
other people. It would come back to the PCC for agreement.
·
Our
new sign in the Glebe field is also an important aspect of church publicity.
Thea had some ideas. ACTION: we are happy to let Thea organise.
·
We
were invited to look at publicity in other churches.
PCC:
21st June(Monday): 7:30 in St. Peter’s Church (following meeting- 20th
July)
The meeting closed with the Grace.