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PCC update                                            Good King …

                                                                Charles
          MEETING 26 NOVEMBER 2022


          Resolutions: to submit formal
             Expression of Interest for revised
             NLHF bid; to trial use of soft seating
             in north aisle to provide family-

             friendly mission space; to agree list
             of church activities involving children
             and vulnerable adults; to conduct
             regular DBS checks on all PCC
             members; to nominate pastoral                      It has been suggested that some of our

             team members as Local Pastoral                     favourite Christmas carols might be
             Visitors; to continue involvement in               ‘rendered more topical.’  Now there's a
             Inclusive Church network                           thought ….
          Finance: draft 2023 budget updated

             to reflect current salaries and new                Good King Charles did last look out
             electricity contract                               Late on in December,

          Policies: recruitment of ex-                         As the sun sank in the west
                                                                Like a dying ember.
             offenders policy adopted;
          Discussions: Icon Coffee report Sep                  He spied two yeomen one mile hence

             -Oct 2022; review of Finance and                   In the frost so cruel,
             Operations Manager role                            Climbing o'er his Highgrove fence,

          Committee Reports: received                          Bearing winter fuel.
             from Fabric, Outward Concern,
             Arts@StLaurence committees and                     ‘Yonder yeomen, who goes there?’
             Winter Festival working group                      He called through his loud hailer

          Date of next meetings:                               ‘Come hither, friends, and fear ye not;
             Monday 16 January 2023                             I am no royal gaoler’.

                                                                ‘Sire, we dwell some ten miles hence
          A copy of the latest confirmed PCC                    By the River Isis;
          minutes is available on the                           And hour by hour, we woodlands scour
          noticeboard in church.  All confirmed                 To brave the winter crisis’.
          minutes can be viewed in the parish

          office.                                               ‘Come hither, friends, and stand by me,
                                                                And by Camilla's Aga;

                                                                Warm hands and hearts with charity,
                                                                Mulled wine and Duchy Lager’.


                                                                                                      Ian Barge


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