Held on 23/03/2011 at 8:00 p.m. at 9, Barnett’s
Well, Draycott.
2. Attendance,
apologies and welcome
8a.
Categorisation of the Parish for Parish Share.
8b.
Diocesan Environmental Committee.
Sue
opened the meeting with a prayer. Sue Rose took the chair.
Present Christine
Butler David Cheetham Richard
Dingley Sylvia Dingley Chris Green Colette
Jeff Tricia
Lumley |
CB DC
RD SD CG CJ TL |
Thea
Oliver Sue
Rose Apologies Barry
Rose Tricia
Heckbert |
TO SR BR TH |
Minutes were agreed as an
accurate record subject to a minor amendment.
16/11/10 – 6a vi. (Shed). Still needs to be secured ACTION: BR to buy a lock.
18/01/11- 6a iv. (Paperwork for grant applications).
DC advised that this was not really required- we would not currently be able to
justify grant applications as we had been able to afford the works.
18/01/11- 6b ii. (Fire regs and new vestry door). Piers had looked into this-
the doorway is wide enough for ambulant disabled (and the WC is not accessible
for wheelchair users anyhow).
18/01/11- 6c iii. (Telephone charges). SR still
investigating tariffs.
FURTHER ACTION- TO to make some enquiries.
18/01/11- 6c iv. (Printer/photocopier contract).
Not progressed.
18/01/11- 7h. (Letter to Sylvia). This had been sent.
Items received- 7i.
i.
Chest of drawers now emptied, disposed of. Wardrobe is empty- can we
dispose of it? Seems a pity as it is still OK- do we want it? No! ACTION: Olivers will take it in hand.
ii.
Vestry- Piers
has temporarily paused while he completes other tasks. Having some difficulty
with the door. Plank door with wooden surround is fairly available, but might
be out of keeping with the church (about £45 in pine, £90 oak). A properly
matching door would be quite expensive- £300 plus.
ACTION: Piers to continue to look,
but a plank door should be OK.
Piers is hoping to do some
plastering this week- choir side first, followed by painting; next the other
side. This way we hope the chancel will be fully back in use by Easter.
NB. Paint is ‘honeysuckle’
and new plaster can be matt emulsion, made up by Whitings of Wells. Inside
vestry and WC is lower priority and we will do it ourselves, but we will need
the right masonry paint (distemper) and this is trickier to get made up. Can we
buy it ready mixed from Corbel?
ACTION: DC to look into it.
iii. Other jobs, including:
carpet by entrance (screeding seems to be crumbling and carpet is getting
‘lumpy’); filing cabinet to go in to organise paperwork; lamp shades and window
need cleaning; old registers to go to Taunton (NB. the latter are currently in
Cheddar).
iv. Do we want paint
highlighting to pick out the arches, as previously suggested? Decided not- we
like the simplicity of the present paint scheme.
i.
Colette showed us a presentation first given to a meeting of the open
garden participants, showing the programme of events between 18th to
29th June. All events were free apart from the open gardens and
cream teas.
ii.
Colette also circulated a demo copy of the programme to be sold for
open gardens (£5). This will be done in black-and-white as the colour version
is so expensive.
iii. The brochure is still being
finalised (paid for by the Cheddar Garden Centre).
iv. Further details will be in
the next copy of the Parish Newsletter.
i.
DC proposed that we should have a choir for Maundy Thursday and Easter
Sunday. Choir practices would generally be Thursday evenings (at the Jeffs), to
start next week (31st).
(NB. later amendment after the meeting- the first two Thursdays were not
possible and the first two were changed to Fridays- the 1st and the
8th April).
ii. We would also have a choir
for the 19th June, to be a joint benefice service at St. Peter’s.
The previous evening (a ‘songs of praise’ evensong) would not have a choir.
Date- 17th April.
A call for reports.
Report |
Responsible |
Progress |
Electoral
Roll |
RD |
Received
|
Report
on PCC proceedings |
CG |
|
Financial
report and accounts* |
DC |
Received |
Churchwarden’s
fabric report |
DC |
|
Deanery
Synod report |
TL |
|
Ministry
Team |
CG |
|
Charities
report** |
DC |
|
Covenants |
TH |
|
School |
ND |
|
SoSP |
TO |
|
Local
Ministry Group |
SR |
|
House
Groups |
Audrey
Morgan |
|
Web
site |
CG |
|
Remarks
from the Priest in Charge |
SR |
|
*Accounts for 2010 had been circulated. TO proposed the PCC accept them, CJ seconded. All were in
favour, and the motion was carried.
** The charities committee
did not meet as it had no specific monies to dispose of. However a significant
amount of charitable giving flows through church accounts and this should be
properly acknowledged. DC was requested to summarise this from his accounts.
Note also- we will need to
elect church representatives (2) to the Deanery Synod.
i.
Easter Services
Monday 18th
April: Stations of the Cross ecumenical service, Cheddar Catholic Church
Tuesday 19th:
Compline, 8 pm at Rodney Stoke
Wednesday 20th:
Compline, 8 pm at Draycott
Maundy Thursday 21st:
communion service, 8 pm at Draycott
Good Friday 22nd,
day time: three services as per last year, 12 pm at Rodney Stoke, 1 pm at
Draycott, 2 pm at Cheddar.
Good Friday 22nd,
evening: vigil, starting ?? at
Draycott until late.
Holy Saturday 23rd,
evening: service 7:30 pm at Cheddar
Easter Sunday 24th,
sunrise service at 7 am (egg rolling at Scadden’s farm);
9:30 Holy Communion at Draycott.
ii.
Mothering Sunday
4th April
Friday service to be held at
Draycott church with the school at 2:30 pm
Sunday at 9:30.
(CJ- Flowers already orders;
posies will be prepared for both services)
Sunday evening- a service to
say farewell to Revd. Rupert Bursell at Cheddar
(there is a book for written contributions- this must stay in Cheddar, but we
could submit any of our own on a separate sheet or sheets to be included in
this book).
i.
Downpipes- non
functional pipe by back door to be replaced, and the
similar pipe at the other side of the church. Including the round gutter this
will come to £1090 + VAT. (Will this include painting? DC not sure).
ii.
Drains- done, but
not priced yet.
iii.
Wooden floor in
shed- done, not charged yet.
iv.
Re-tiling work to
north transept after storm damage- done by Rob Millard
ACTION: CG to write letter of thanks
v.
Garden of
Remembrance- this is rather untidy, and has a piece of its chain missing (NB.
this has been the case for a long time).
ACTION: PCC to inspect after church
one Sunday to see what might be done.
vi.
Bench on path-
current one will soon rot. It would be nice to have a proper one.
vii.
Foul water pipe
(from WC) - not functioning properly.
i.
C of E deposit
fund closed.
ii.
General accounts
at Lloyds- £9,696 total.
iii.
Fabric accounts-
£4,059. Most will probably go on the drainage works.
Nikki Devitt’s report was
read. Highlights:
i.
Ofsted inspection
dates- 24th and 25th March. NB. Very short notice, stressful
for staff.
ii.
Special
Inspection for Church Schools (SIAS) - to be arranged in the next month. To
involve foundation governors.
iii.
Official opening
of the Foundation Stage Unit on Tuesday 29th March. Children’s
author Eileen Browne will spend the day at school.
iv.
The unit has been
taking children since last September and has 17 children, thus breaking even-
this has been a great success and will be good for the school and the village.
v.
In their regular
services (fortnightly) the children have appreciated the refurbishment,
especially the comfy chairs!
vi.
Our attention was
drawn to the picture ‘evolving’ at the back of the church, depicting the events
of Holy week. SR is doing this with Mars class at Cheddar.
vii.
As well as the
Mothering Friday service, there will be an end of term Easter service.
SR added:
viii.
There will be a
week of events leading up to Father’s day as part of the King’s Festival. This
includes a 400 seat tent. Can we fund a minibus to allow our school to
participate (years 3 and 4)? Cost about £70. The PCC agreed.
ACTION: SR to approach Rodney Stoke
with the same suggestion, then talk to Cathy Lowe.
Thank-you to Nikki Devitt for all her work with the
school.
i.
Soup lunch last Saturday made £126. Quiz sales are still going- TO printed 160.
ii. Laurie at the Strawberry
Special pub has offered to put on a ‘curry night’ fund raising event for us- we
are pursuing this.
iii. Harvest festival- being
planned.
iv. Strawberry Fayre- TO is on the committee. Planning a bookstall.
v. The Travel Evening (‘Another
Country’) is being planned, with talks and refreshments.
vi. Thea and dogs will be doing
the Wessex Walks as usual!
We thanked TO, TL and the
other members of SoSP.
i.
Pulpit exchange- 22nd May (does not involve Draycott- SR
will be at Crook Peak).
ii. Event at Flagstaff farm- 17th
July, 3-6 with activities, followed by bring and share tea and an act of
worship.
iii. Social Evening- 19th
November in Church House at 7pm. Quiz with fish and chip supper.
There has been a problem
with the Rodney Stoke part of this (being run by Tim Bibby)-
we are meeting next week to try and sort it out. In the meantime you may find
it unavailable. The Draycott part is still functioning, though currently still
out of date. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
TL reported that there had
been overwhelming support for the election of Women Bishops at the Synod (out
of 31 votes there were 2 noes; there were 3 abstentions).
We thanked Sylvia in person
for all her contributions through Deanery Synod.
i.
Nikki has now completed her own placement, at Weston General Hospital
shadowing the chaplain. This has been very interesting and given her a new
perspective on hospitals as well as ministry
ACTION: the PCC requested that she
report back to us more fully as we are interested by her experiences.
ii. There was a full turnout
from our parishes for the Reader’s conference at Taunton Racecourse last
Saturday- led by Gordon Wenham, and dealing with the books of Moses plus the
Psalms.
We had been allowed to go down a category to ‘d’ last year, due to exceptional expenses incurred by
our refurbishment project. SR had backed us on this but cannot justify it this
year.
RD proposed that we accept the ‘c’ category; TO seconded; all agreed. The motion was adopted.
CB was on this committee, which had asked parishes
whether they were interested in going on a list to be considered for installation
of photovoltaic cells. The meeting agreed for her to put our name on the list.
The meeting finished with
the Grace.