MINUTES OF PCC MEETINGS

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St George’s Parish Church
Parochial Church Council
Minutes of the Meeting held on Wednesday 9th April 2025

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Vice Chair: Paul Raven

Present: Mary Lee, Cathy Mansell, Kate Raven, Helen Ravencross, Ashley Smith, Alan Talbot

Apologies: None

P Raven opened the meeting with a bible reading from Luke Chapter 19 v28-40. K Raven led in prayer.
Urgent Business
None

The minutes of the PCC meeting held on Tuesday 4th February 2025 had been previously circulated
and were signed by P Raven as a true record of the proceedings. It was also agreed to make those
minutes available on the noticeboard.

Matters Arising
a) Interregnum/Vacancy – P Raven informed PCC that the Revd Dr Tom Atfield had signed a
contract for 12 months from March 2025 to March 2026 as interim minister for the 6 churches in
the benefice. As yet, no advertisement has been placed with finding a team vicar and a team
rector for the benefice.
b) Service Rota – After a couple of meetings with Stuart Howes and Tom Atfield it has been agreed
that St George’s would continue to hold services every Sunday morning, the 1st and 3rd Sundays
of each month would be a Eucharist with the 2nd and 4th Sundays being a lay led Morning Prayer
service. It was also agreed that St George’s would hold Choral Evensong services on some 5th
Sundays at 6pm.
c) Advertising Banners – The posts for the banners have now been fixed into the ground and
Ashley Smith was ordering the banners on a need-to-have basis with the Easter banner now up
and advertising the Easter services.

Building Care
a) Roof Project - A Talbot said there was nothing further to report.
b) Quinquennial report – This has now been received and paid for.
c) Clock repairs – these have now been carried out at a cost of £200 plus VAT. P Raven said that
a grant application for this amount had been submitted to the Parish Council.
The recent problem with a bird in church was being dealt with by coaxing the bird out but it, or
another bird, finds its way back in. A Smith agreed to monitor the situation.

Mission Action Plan
a) Info Leaflet for new attendees – This has been completed and being handed out as
appropriate.
b) Photo Board: PCC Members – This is all ready to put up in church. A Smith said he will try and
find something to put it up with as soon as possible.
c) Parish letter – all were in favour of the wording of the letter and A Smith agreed to deliver to new
homes close to Limekiln Bank. A Talbot agreed to photocopy about 100 copies and also put the
QR code on the letter for the bank account details.

Growing Together
a) Relationship with St Georges School: Alan Talbot reported that the school were in Church
on the last day of term and also in Church on the 8th May for VE day. The relationship with
the school is very strong at the present time.
b) Relationship with wider benefice: The relationship is quite good with the 6 other churches
and the meetings held recently has bought us together all wanting the same thing and
pushing in the same direction for what our own churches need.
c) Relationship amongst ourselves: It was agreed that things continued to be positive and
united at the moment.

Safeguarding
There was nothing to report. Louise Hallybone still has the title of Safeguarding Officer but it was not
clear whether she would like to continue or stand down from the role.

Finance Report
a) 2025 Accounts to date
P Raven handed out the current financial position. The current account stands at £1749. P
Raven reported that the Parish Share payments for January and February were still owing at a
sum of £1982. A legacy of £2,000 had been received from the estate of Greta Williams. Half of
this has been transferred to the Barclays Covenant account to replace funds used at the end of
last year.
The sum of £25,502 was in the fabric fund and would be used for the tower/roof repairs when a
breakdown of the costs is known.
b) Approve 2024 Accounts
These have been examined by Mr Les Scott with no issues reported. It was proposed by Cathy
Mansell and seconded by Helen Ravencross to approve these accounts ahead of the Annual
Meeting.

Fundraising /Events Schedule and Progress against budgets
A list of the year’s fundraising events was handed out showing amounts received so far.

Electoral Roll Applications
The Roll is in the process of being renewed.

Forthcoming Services
Joint services to be held in the benefice during holy week with Evensong at St George’s on Tuesday 15th
April at 7pm.

Date of Next Meeting
Sunday 11th May at 9.30am – Annual Parochial Church Meeting.
The meeting closed at 8.50pm with the Grace

 

P.Raven
(Signed) Dated 15th July 2025
Vice Chair

 

St Georges Parish Church
Parochial Church Council
Minutes of the Meeting held on Sunday 11th May 2025

Vice Chair: P Raven

Present: M Lee, C Mansell, K Raven, A Talbot

Apologies: H Ravencross, A Smith

A letter from Louise Hallybone had been received resigning from the role of
Safeguarding Officer, which the meeting reluctantly accepted. K Raven to write to
Louise.

The following were duly elected as Officers
Chair Vacant
Vice Chair Paul Raven
Secretary Kate Raven
Treasurer Paul Raven
Electoral Roll Officer Alan Talbot
Safeguarding Officer Cathy Mansell
It was noted that as there were only four PCC members elected at the annual
meeting, 2 positions remained vacant.

Membership of Standing Committee
Chair
Vice Chair
Churchwarden
Secretary
Treasurer
1 elected member – Mrs Mary Lee was nominated and as there were no other
nominations, she was duly elected.

Consultation on Telford Minster BMO Review
It was unanimously agreed to support the review’s recommendation to renew the
BMO indefinitely and to appoint Laura Lenander as leader of Telford Minster. K
Raven to reply to consultation.

Date of Next Meeting

Tuesday 15th July 2025 at 7.30pm in Church
 

(Signed) P.  Raven                                                                                        Dated  15th of July 2025
Vice Chair 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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