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Report from Church Council meetings 7 and 18 April, and from General Church Meeting 25 April 2021
Church Council.
The Church Council met by Zoom on Wednesday 7 April. The main business was to finalise the Growth Plan discussed at earlier meetings, to approve the expenditure of a small church reserve fund on it and to adopt applications for grants to fund the much larger balance of the cost from circuit and district funds.
Following that meeting the church stewards reported fully on the Growth Plan in Weekly on 16 April.
The Church Council met again by Zoom on Sunday 18 April, with a full agenda of the ‘ordinary’ business through which it exercises its ‘authority and oversight over the whole area of the ministry of the church’ (Standing Order 603). It also received a report that the Circuit Meeting had approved the Growth Plan, supported the church’s application for a grant from District Funds, and in effect undertaken to meet any part of the budgeted cost not covered by the church contribution and any district grant. And, in implementation of another part of the Growth Plan, it adopted the terms of reference for the ‘People Committee’.
General Church Meeting.
The General Church Meeting is a meeting of all the members of the church for fellowship, mutual counsel on the condition of the church, including its financial affairs, and for the election of church stewards and representatives to the Church Council. The Hinde Street GCM met on Sunday, 25 April, by Zoom. We have a membership of 112, of whom about 35, plus a few non-members on the community roll, attended. The elections were duly made. For our ‘mutual counsel on the condition of the church’ we had a brief presentation, and then a general discussion, of the Growth Plan.
Gordon Slater, as church treasurer, gave a summary presentation of our financial affairs, showing that the fund we should have been setting aside to provide for known periodic property maintenance, such as redecoration and boiler replacement, is £352,350 short of what is needed, and that although the position has been worsened by Covid 19, it was already deteriorating beforehand. We are therefore in increasing danger of not being able to meet some large and unavoidable property expense unless the position can be rectified quite soon. Peter Cornick asked what, even if the accumulated shortfall were paid off and the effect of Covid 19 ceased, was the ‘underlying’ annual deficit which we must make good in order to be solvent. Gordon and John Brierley, the Finance Committee chair, said that it was about £30,000 per annum.
John Hicks, secretary.
Church Council.
The Church Council met by Zoom on Wednesday 7 April. The main business was to finalise the Growth Plan discussed at earlier meetings, to approve the expenditure of a small church reserve fund on it and to adopt applications for grants to fund the much larger balance of the cost from circuit and district funds.
Following that meeting the church stewards reported fully on the Growth Plan in Weekly on 16 April.
The Church Council met again by Zoom on Sunday 18 April, with a full agenda of the ‘ordinary’ business through which it exercises its ‘authority and oversight over the whole area of the ministry of the church’ (Standing Order 603). It also received a report that the Circuit Meeting had approved the Growth Plan, supported the church’s application for a grant from District Funds, and in effect undertaken to meet any part of the budgeted cost not covered by the church contribution and any district grant. And, in implementation of another part of the Growth Plan, it adopted the terms of reference for the ‘People Committee’.
General Church Meeting.
The General Church Meeting is a meeting of all the members of the church for fellowship, mutual counsel on the condition of the church, including its financial affairs, and for the election of church stewards and representatives to the Church Council. The Hinde Street GCM met on Sunday, 25 April, by Zoom. We have a membership of 112, of whom about 35, plus a few non-members on the community roll, attended. The elections were duly made. For our ‘mutual counsel on the condition of the church’ we had a brief presentation, and then a general discussion, of the Growth Plan.
Gordon Slater, as church treasurer, gave a summary presentation of our financial affairs, showing that the fund we should have been setting aside to provide for known periodic property maintenance, such as redecoration and boiler replacement, is £352,350 short of what is needed, and that although the position has been worsened by Covid 19, it was already deteriorating beforehand. We are therefore in increasing danger of not being able to meet some large and unavoidable property expense unless the position can be rectified quite soon. Peter Cornick asked what, even if the accumulated shortfall were paid off and the effect of Covid 19 ceased, was the ‘underlying’ annual deficit which we must make good in order to be solvent. Gordon and John Brierley, the Finance Committee chair, said that it was about £30,000 per annum.
John Hicks, secretary.
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