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Annual Report and Financial Statements of the Parochial Church Council 28Th October 2020 for the Year Ending 31St December 2019 THE PARISH CHURCH OF TONGE-CUM-ALKRINGTON ST. MICHAEL In the BENEFICE of TONGE, RHODES & ALKRINGTON The DEANERY of HEYWOOD & MIDDLETON The DIOCESE of MANCHESTER Neil at his commissioning as our very 1st ALM Annual Report and Financial Statements of the Parochial Church Council 28th October 2020 For the year ending 31st December 2019 Contents Pastoral Letter .................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Agenda .................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 St. Michael’s, Tonge-cum-Alkrington, 2017 Annual Vestry and APCM Minutes ................................................. 4 The Parochial Church Council - Objectives and Activities, PCC Report ............................................................ 6 Church Services ................................................................................................................................................................. 8 REPORTS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Electoral Roll Officer......................................................................................................................................................... 8 Churchwarden Report including the Fabric of the Church, Churchyard and Goods and Ornaments ......... 9 Safeguarding Officer (Responsible for Children and Adults) ................................................................................. 10 Portfolio groups reports ………………………………………………………………………………..… 10 Authorised Lay Ministry ................................................................................................................................................. 12 Infant Church .................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Junior Church ................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Youth Group .................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Junior Choir ...................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Tuesday Bible Study Group ......................................................................................................................................... 14 Prayer Breakfast ............................................................................................................................................................. 14 Mothers’ Union ................................................................................................................................................................ 15 Needlework Group ….................................................................................................................................................... 15 Men’s Group ..................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Healing Ministry Team ………...................................................................................................................................... 15 Flower Team ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Heywood and Middleton Deanery Synod Report ................................................................................................... 16 The Children’s Society ................................................................................................................................................... 16 Christian Aid ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16 St. Michael’s Church Website ...................................................................................................................................... 17 Social Media ..................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Contactless Giving ........................................................................................................................................................... 17 The Old Vic at St Michael’s ........................................................................................................................................... 17 GDPR ................................................................................................................................................................................. 17 Health and Safety Report ............................................................................................................................................... 18 St. Michael’s C of E Primary School ............................................................................................................................ 19 St. Michael’s Uniformed Groups .................................................,................................................................................ 21 2 St Michael’s Brass Band .................................................................................................................................................. 22 Incumbent’s Report ....................................................................................................................................................... 22 Defibrillator ..................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Gift Aid Secretary Report ............................................................................................................................................. 24 Annual Financial Report, Accounts and Report from Independent Examiner .................................................. 25 Policy Statement on Children, Young People & the Church ................................................................................ 29 Policy Statement on Safeguarding of Adults .............................................................................................................. 29 A Safe Church Policy....................................................................................................................................................... 29 Concluding comments and Middleton in Action Together ………………………………………………..29 Data Privacy Notice ........................................................................................................................................................ 31 Pastoral Letter from the Vicar - Reverend Jackie Calow I am aware that you will be reading this report in the light of the Coronavirus pandemic. The report we will put together next year for 2020 will undoubtedly be very different on many levels than this report for 2019 and indeed anything else before. For now though, the Annual Report presented at this APCM (not an AGM) remains an opportunity to publicise to the different congregations in our parish, (all three of them) and to the community as a whole, the events and activities of the previous year, including the joys and celebrations, the challenges and concerns - there is inevitably both in the life of our church each year. It is also a chance, once again, for me to strongly encourage all of you, for whom your relationship with Christ is a foundation and a rock on which to build, as we seek to follow Jesus in every way, to get to know him better, and make his love better known. As we reflect on this towards the end of 2020, perhaps this encouragement is needed more so than ever. Or, as our mission statement proclaims, let us all be encouraged by being: ‘Together in God, growing in faith and love, reaching out to all’. Perhaps these words too also take on a new significance with so many restrictions for gathering together. We must remember that under God, we are together, whether we are just two meters apart in the same building or on opposite sides of the world. The PCC of St Michael’s, has the responsibility of working, with me, to promote the mission and ministry of the Church in this community and of meeting the pastoral needs of the parish. It is, of course, a task to summarise everything, but it is important that we continue to inspire one another with thankful hearts and share our God-given gifts of time, resources and self. The PCC also has responsibility for maintaining the Church buildings and The Old Vic, and so on: it would be all to easy to have our true mission and ministry skewed by a wrong focus on bricks and mortar rather than souls - I hope that together, we will continue learning to achieve a good balance in this area of our ministry in 2020 and beyond despite the extra hardships all of us have endured in 2020 and
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