Standing Committee and PCC meeting dates 2025-26
7.30 – 9.00pm
- SC: Wednesday 25 June 2025
- PCC: Wednesday 9 July 2025
- SC: Wednesday 10 September 2025
- PCC: Wednesday 24 September 2025
- SC: Wednesday 5 November 2025
- PCC: Wednesday 19 November 2025 (approve budget)
- SC: Wednesday 28 Jan 2026
- PCC: Wednesday 11 Feb 2026
- SC: Wednesday 11 March 2026
- PCC: Wednesday 25 March 2026 (approve accounts and annual report)
- APCM: Wed 13 May 2026
PCC Roles and Subcommittees: 2024-2025
PCC Roles
Chair: Vacant
Vice-chair: Margaret Taylor
Secretary: Yue-Yi Hwa
Safeguarding Officer: Dr Anne Tarassenko
Electoral Roll Officer: Joan Jones
Churches Together Representative: Joan Jones
Treasurer: Richard Stoneman
Churchwardens
Margaret Taylor & Linda Davies
Deanery Synod Reps (appointed by APCM):
Janet Masters
Raj Patel
Diane Mason
Tom Crook
Active PCC Subcommittees and Working Groups
To function efficiently, the PCC appoints a number of sub-committees and working groups, which report back to PCC as needed. PCC members are encouraged to serve on at least one subcommittee or working group. Subcommittee members who are not on PCC do not need to be co-opted, although the PCC may decide to co-opt members as needed (up to 3 co-opted members are permitted). Membership of subcommittees for 2024-2025 is as follows:
Standing Committee
Standing Committee meets in advance of PCC meetings to review written reports and set the agenda. It can transact business separately from PCC, subject to any directions given by PCC, and can approve financial expenditure for items under £1000 on any one item of a routine nature.
Members: Laura Biron-Scott (Chair), Rob Gilbert, Emily Hockliffe Essex, Margaret Taylor, Linda Davies, Yue-Yi Hwa, Richard Stoneman.
Parish Planning Group
This group meets to review and plan matters relating to the general running of the parish, particularly relating to worship, mission and ministry.
Members: Laura Biron-Scott, Rob Gilbert, Emily Hockliffe Essex, Linda Davies, Margaret Taylor, Andrea Taylor, Helen Day, Felicity Wallendszus, Andrew Patterson, Andrena Palmer.
Finance
Members: Richard Stoneman, Richard Carling, Pete Jordan, Adrian Wood, Diane Mason, Raj Patel.
Eco-Church
This committee oversees the church’s commitment to being an Eco-Church, and advises the PCC on its responsibilities to fulfill the fifth mark of mission: ‘to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth’.
Members: Jan McLeod, Chris McLeod, Hilary Rollin, Karl Wallendszus, Margaret Samuel, Anthea Boylston.
Sustainable Heating
Members: Anthea Boylston, Andrea Taylor, Chris McLeod, Dave Smith (chair), Kevin Masters, Richard Carling, Tom Crook.
175th Anniversary
Members: Margaret Taylor, Janet Masters, Frances Farrar, Emily Hockliffe Essex, Tom Crook, Hannah Hanlon, Sophie Tollman.
Pastoral Care Group
Members: Laura Biron-Scott, Emily Hockliffe Essex, Janet Masters, Nell Slocock, Anne Tarassenko, Helen Day.
Fete Committee
This committee organizes the Christmas event and Summer fete.
Members: Mike Hill, Lisa Hill, Margaret Taylor, Derek Taylor, Janet Foot, Howard Pearce, Linda Pearce.
Children and Families Committee
Members: Emily Hockliffe Essex, Andrea Taylor, Sarah Millette, Felicity Wallendszus and Helen Dancer, Andrena Palmer.
Complaints Committee
This committee will meet in the eventuality of a complaint being received (see ‘Complaints Policy’).
Members: Laura Biron-Scott, Rob Gilbert, Emily Hockliffe Essex, Margaret Taylor, Linda Davies, Yue-Yi Hwa, Richard Stoneman (Standing Committee) and Anne Tarassenko (Safeguarding Officer).
Non-Active PCC Subcommittees
The following committees have not met in the past year and their membership is under review:
- Social Justice Group
- Inclusivity Working Group
Possible new committees
- Churchyard vision group: to help develop a future strategy for the churchyard, including the possibility of a churchyard extension and quiet garden space.
- Coach House Vision: To work with members of the Coach House Management Committee to help develop a shared vision for the building.
Welcomers 2024-5
Duty wardens in bold.
- Richard Churchill
- Diana Clews
- Maureen Cooper
- Linda Davies
- Charlotte Drake
- Bernie Farrar
- Diana Harrison
- Mike Hill
- Joan Jones
- Jan McLeod
- Janet Masters
- Nicholas Rollin
- Rikky Rooksby
- Margaret Samuel
- Dave Smith
- Roz Smith
- Anne Tarassenko
- Margaret Taylor
- June Thomson
- Jan Wheeler