APCM 2020 Notice – Saturday 17th October
St Michael's Church • 3 October 2020
Official notice of St Michael's APCM Meeting
The APCM is to be held at 4pm in person at church OR online via Zoom
on 17th October. Please download the
Annual Parochial Church Meeting Report booklet containing all relevant information for our upcoming meeting, together with the
2019 Audited Accounts. The booklet contains information about the election of Churchwardens at the Annual Meeting of the Parish (AMP) as well as the Agenda for the APCM and the Statutory Reports.
Our APCM is open to all the members of our church. During this time of COVID, we face very different challenges, alongside many of the usual ones in the use of our resources, etc., so PCC continues to play an important decision-making role.
Attendance
You will be able to attend the APCM either ‘in person’ in a socially distanced way at the church at 4pm, or online via Zoom.
If you can attend by Zoom, please do so, so that those without access to Zoom can attend in person.
We have moved the time of the meeting forward to 4pm so that we can meet in daylight hours.
If COVID restrictions remain as they currently are, we will have approximately 55 places available in church. We will have 100 places available on Zoom, so we should have capacity for everyone.
To be eligible to attend either in person or online, you should be a resident of our parish, or on our electoral roll and consider yourself a member of our church family. Should we be overwhelmed with applications, priority will be given to those whose names are on the electoral roll.
Only members of our electoral roll can vote at our APCM for PCC members (should we need to). Voting for churchwardens is open to anyone resident in the parish or on the electoral roll.
Booking a place
We are asking those who wish to attend in person to book a place by completing a form, so that we can keep track of numbers, arrange seats, and fulfil our test and trace obligations.
Forms will be available in church at the service on a Sunday morning, or during any of the times that the church is open for individual prayer, or you can email Angie at admin.stmichael@gmail.com to request one. Forms should be returned to the church office via the secure post box at the St Michael’s Centre and must be completed by 12th October to allow time for processing.
If you wish to attend online, please email the office on
admin.stmichael@gmail.com
to request a Zoom meeting invitation.
When contacting the office, please make it clear which meeting you wish to attend. You will not be able to attend both.
Elections
We will be holding elections as we do annually for two churchwardens – one of these being the church-life warden to support Malc with the spiritual ministry of the church.
We will also be electing four people to Deanery Synod – these seats are elected every three years. We have a couple of nominations for these roles already, but would be pleased to receive more. For further information on Deanery Synod we can supply a leaflet, or speak to Malc. Being on Deanery Synod gives you an automatic place on PCC.
We also have a few places available on PCC. If you are interested in joining PCC, a leaflet is available from church, or the office can email one out to you to tell you what is involved. Again, we already have a few nominations, but please pray about whether you God is calling you to this ministry.
It is likely that in the shorter-term at least, we will be holding our PCC meetings via Zoom.
Nomination forms
Nomination forms for any of the above vacancies are available as paper copies from church, can be downloaded from the diocesan website
https://www.parishresources.org.uk/pccs/apcms/
Completed forms can be returned to the church office via the secure post box. Normally, nomination forms can be submitted up to and including the night of the APCM, but given the way we are running the APCM all
nominations MUST be in by 12 noon on Wednesday 14th October.
Reports
We are deliberately keeping the number of reports to a minimum. This isn’t because we aren’t grateful for all the wonderful work that has gone on in the church, but to keep office work, administration and costs to a minimum during this difficult period. As this is technically the APCM that should have been held in April, the reports will focus on the period May ’19 to April ’20. We aim to have some printed copies of the reports available in church. This will also be available in
pdf format for those attending virtually. The Financial Statements for the Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Bishop's Cleeve for the year ended 31 December 2019
can be viewed
here.
And lastly…
Thank you for bearing with us! Organising an APCM that abides by Charity Commission and Church of England rules, includes as many people as possible, while keeping costs down, and involves experimenting with technology - all during a time of pandemic - is tricky.
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