Snippets from the PCC Meeting – 20th January 2026
The PCC meeting on 20th January was held in church and among the matters discussed were:
Memory Walk
As part of our commitment to Becoming a Dementia Friendly Church there will be a Memory Walk on Sunday 12th April. This is one of the actions for our DFC Certificate and will hopefully build on the success of the Pattingham Past and Present event which we held last year. The walk will start from the Lychgate at 2 pm. More details will be available nearer the time.
The Well Foodbank
Members of the congregation and others continue to support The Well Foodbank with donations of food and other items as well as cash. Through a volunteer at HM Prison Oakwood inmates on the Douglas wing have kindly donated 41.5 kg (91 lbs) of food and toiletries to the Well, which they have paid for themselves out of wages earned for work. We are truly blessed that such gifts come from what might be considered unlikely sources.
Church attendance figures
We have now supplied various figures to the diocese and the national church for 2025. In due course these will form part of the various totals which are published by the national church.
A number of figures are collected in relation to attendance. One is the “Usual Sunday Attendance” which counts the average number of people who attend church on a “normal” Sunday (that is one which is not a festival or other special service). For 2025 that was 65. It was 60 in 2022.
Numbers are also collected for Christmas and Easter. On Easter Day a total of 245 people attended our church. This was boosted by Ken’s last service as a Reader in the evening and compares to 120 for the previous two years. Total attendance on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day was 312, compared to 210 in 2024.
PCC members
The members of the PCC are: Rev Merry Smith (Vicar), Philip Sims (vice chairman), Tony Ainsworth, lain Coleman, Milly Colin-Stokes, Geoffrey Dann, Barbara Dias, Henry lbberson, Steve Jones, Clive Pendrell, Alan Smith, Dorothy Steel, Graham Tritton and Tracey Williams.