Held on 21/10/2010 at 7:300 p.m. in Church House, Cheddar; then in St.
Peter’s Church, Draycott.
5. Attendance,
apologies and welcome
This was a joint meeting of St. Andrew’s, Cheddar, St. Leonard’s,
Rodney Stoke and St. Peter’s, Draycott. The full minutes are available from
Cheddar.
Main points:
This was a plea that CB’s training required documentation from time to
time, and Churchwardens will need to write reports.
Sue Rose has stood for General Synod, and been elected. There will be 3
days in November (from 22nd November), 5 days in February and some
days next July. No expenses required from us.
Ann Wait and Alison Jeffries met over re-starting a Fairtrade stall,
with stock to be purchased across the joint benefice. They ask for vounteers
for ordering, storing and running the stalls. Alison’s daughter Abigail has
already volunteered, but others will be needed. Stalls should happend at about
one per month per parish. We hope to start in the New Year.
We split into a number of groups (mixed parishes) and considered how we
thought the joint benefice was performing, and how it might be improved. The
groups were positive, but did not think that we should either amalgamate PCCs
or have more frequent joint benefice services.
|
Present David Cheetham Richard
Dingley Sylvia Dingley Chris Green Tricia
Heckbert Colette Jeff Barry
Rose |
DC
RD SD CG TH CJ
BR |
Apologies Christine
Butler Thea Oliver Tricia
Lumley Sue
Rose |
CB TO TL SR |
The minutes from the
previous meeting were taken as read.
David had previously circulated a list of items, which
had been agreed apart from deferred decisions on:
Boards for
the children's work (Chris will ask Nikki for her input on this)
The new
vestry. We were agreed in principle on the idea of cupboards
for vestments etc in the boiler room, but we need to ask Sue and Piers for more
information on their plans.
David had the following requests on the forthcoming
working party (church at 10.00 on Saturday)
All. Please come
armed with dusters and possibly a more powerful Hoover. We people to carry the
furniture about, and it all needs a good dust.
Colette: Please ask
Heather about the two needlework projects and see what she thinks.
Tricia: Please ask
the tax office about VAT as soon as possible.
Barry: Brian
Hooper will do the organ tuning at 8.30 on Saturday 30th.
Richard: Please ask
your carpenter friend for his thoughts on the long pew.!
Thea: Quadron
found it impossible to get into the churchyard with their mower as the locks
have been changed on the glebe field. They had to do all the grass with
strimmers. I think they could possibly get a small mower in through the school
lane gate. Please ask Mendip about their policy on collecting grass cuttings.
If Quadron were to collect and bag the cuttings, we could take them to the
dump. You might also like to check that Mendip would have no objection to our
putting up a shed under the big tree where no grass will grow. I don't think
they have any right to object, since the churchyard remains our property, but I
think it is as well to check.
The following was also discussed:
Notice boards. We will not paint these, but CJ will
put fabric over them. Those we are not going to use immediately will be stored.
The red notice board will be on hooks.
The chandelier is not now moving, nor is the pulpit.
We need publicity ahead of our grand opening- Gordon
has offered to do some notices to distribute around, and Barry Rose will
contact Miles to get a picture in the Cheddar Valley Gazette.
The PCC thanked David for such dedication and
leadership in our church refurbishment project. We can already see the
transformation of the church, and it would not have happened without him.
Next PCC
meetings- Tuesday 16th November and Tuesday 18th January.