St Peter’s Bethnal Green, St Peter’s Close, London E2 7AE
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St Peter with St Thomas Bethnal Green
ANNUAL REPORT 2013 (January – December 2013)
Part 1 Sections 1-6: The Vicar’s Report
1. Reference information
Members of the PCC are elected as Trustees at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) in accordance with the Church Representation Rules. During the year the following served as members of the PCC:
Vicar: The Rev’d Adam Atkinson, Chairman Assistant Priest: Canon Dr Angus Ritchie Wardens: Pam Haluwa, Elizabeth Ker Representative on the Deanery Synod: Helen Quail (Triennium to 2014) Elected Members: Heather Atkinson (Secretary), David Butler (Treasurer), Helen Crane, Hannah Fleetwood (Chair, Development Working Group), Nigel Holland-Williams, Tim Ker (Chair, Finance Working Group), Joy Middleton, Nigel Mycock (resigned in July), Katie Purser, Magaly Rojas, Andy Walton, Edna Waterman, Maria Wyard.
St Peter’s Bethnal Green is a registered charity number 1154668. St Peter’s Bethnal Green uses the banking services of Reliance Bank Ltd at Faith House, 23-24 Lovat Lane, London, EC3R 8EB. Mazars (Times House, Throwley Way, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 4JQ) were appointed to carry out the audit for 2013. Postal address of the church: St Peter’s Bethnal Green, St Peter’s Close, London E2 7AE. Administrative address: The Mission Hall office, 56 Warner Place, London E2 7DA.
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2. Structure & Governance
Responsibilities of the PCC
The PCC of St Peter’s Bethnal Green, has the responsibility, together with the Vicar, the Rev’d Adam Atkinson, to promote in the parish the whole mission of the Church. This includes the pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical aspects. It is responsible for the maintenance of the buildings of St Peter’s Bethnal Green. As a Church of England Parish church, the PCC and Vicar follow requirements of Church of England Canon Law.
Objectives and activities
The objectives of St Peter’s Bethnal Green are to promote in the parish the whole mission of the Church by ‘living and giving with God’s passion for Bethnal Green’ as we worship God, make friends and change the world.
The PCC organises itself to carry out its aims and objectives by having regular meetings and various sub-committees. The PCC held six formal meetings over the year.
Two Working Groups of the PCC were formed, the aims of which are to carry out action and planning in each of their areas, preparing Governance decisions for the PCC and taking forward management matters with the Vicar. These Groups, each Chaired by a PCC member, were Finance and Development. Day-to-day management of the church is delegated to the Vicar, Rev’d Adam Atkinson and his staff team.
The 2013 electoral roll had 101 registered members. Those on the Electoral roll are able to nominate candidates for the PCC. The PCC and Church Wardens are elected annually at the APCM. PCC members are introduced to the workings of the PCC at the beginning of the serving year by the Vicar who provides a briefing paper and verbal comments.
Public Benefit
The PCC members confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have regard to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit. St Peters’ Bethnal Green works alongside a number of organisations as partners in undertaking mercy, justice and evangelism. We support these practically, financially and/or in encouraging people to volunteer and we receive support from them in fulfilling our calling as a local church.
These include: Tower Hamlets and Hackney Foodbanks, The Mission Practice, Shoreditch Citizens, Tower Hamlets Citizens, Citizens UK, The Contextual Theology Centre, Church Resource Ministries, Caring for Ex-Offenders, Arch 76, The Shoreditch Group and other local churches, individual ministries and social enterprises.
The church of St Peter’s Bethnal Green benefits the community by the activities described in the section below entitled ‘Change the World’, notably through outreach and supporting others through our volunteer programme, prayer and financial input.
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3. ‘Worship God’
Church attendance
Average Sunday attendance at St Peter’s Bethnal Green in 2013:
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 (Jan-March) (April-June) (July–Sept) (Oct-Dec) 10am sung Eucharist communicants 35 35 39 45
adults 36 40 38 46
children 1 3 3 5
11am service of the Word adults 46 50 47 50
children 12 12 10 9
10am monthly Family service communicants 68 58 50 56
adults 67 58 54 60
children 20 12 7 9
6pm monthly worship & wine adults 17 11
Regular services
Throughout 2013, St Peter’s Bethnal Green continued to hold a liturgical Sung Eucharist service at 10am and an informal Service of the Word at 11am, the two congregations combined on the 1st Sunday of the month by one 10am cross-tradition Family Service with Communion, followed by a community lunch.
On Sundays in August one 10am cross-tradition service was held. ‘Worship & Wine’, a monthly informal service, occasionally with Eucharist was begun in the Autumn. Morning Prayer was held in the Chancel at 8.30am Monday to Friday. The 7.30pm Thursday evening Communion Service continued, celebrating a number of festivals and growing in number towards the end of the year.
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Guest preachers at St Peter’s Bethnal Green included Rt Rev Adrian Newman, The Bishop of Stepney, Ven Rachel Treweek, The Archdeacon of Hackney and Andy Blacknell of All Saints Peckham and the St Mellitus church planting course. The clergy and a number of lay members of St Peter’s Bethnal Green have led and preached at services. We follow the Church of England lectionary at our Eucharistic services.
Occasional services
There were 5 baptisms, 1 wedding and 1 funeral officiated at St Peter’s Bethnal Green in 2013. Other Occasional services included:
• Confirmations of 5 people by The Bishop of Stepney on 6 January; • Seminar with Evening Prayer, ‘Silence: practice the presence of God’ on 17 Feb (16); • A seminar and series of prayerful reflections entitled ‘Walk into Lent’ on 10 Feb (24) and ‘Walk with the Trinity’ on 9 June (20); • Holy Week including a performance of Riding Lights’ ‘A Different Drum’ in the church, choral Compline twice, a Children’s Good Friday, 3 hour Good Friday meditations, including an hour led by The Bishop of Stepney; • Induction conducted by The Bishop of Stepney at a Deanery Synod party on 12 Sept; • An afternoon Harvest Festival service on 6 October; • An All Saints service on 1 November (4, 24); • An Alpha Day with two other local churches on 9 November (28); • An act of Remembrance with The Archdeacon of Hackney on Remembrance Sunday, 10 November (68); • ‘Access’ youth events on 14 June and 6 December; • The ‘Carols by Candlelight’ service on 10 December (138); • ‘Jesus on the Green’, a service of carols on Jesus Green on 22 December (6, 68).
The Vicar undertook 4 additional funerals at local cemeteries for members of the parish and friends as well as wedding, presiding and preaching engagements including: • St Andrew by the Wardrobe • St James, Garlickhythe • Christ Church, Spitalfields • St John on Bethnal Green • St Mary’s, Stapleford • St Andrew’s, North Oxford • St Withburga, Holkham
Worship Music
St Peter’s continued our relationship with Worship Central, and having seen Sean Currie return to South Africa we received a new Worship Central intern from Scotland, James McSporran. James brought stability to our Sunday services and has been drawing in a wider team. We hope to keep him on rather than lose another talented leader.
Our classical and choral music led by our organist Tom Daggett, included Carols on Colombia Road in the Christmas Wednesday market on three occasions, by invitation from Janice of ‘Open House’ the Chair of the Colombia Road traders association.
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Our cross-tradition worship has developed with particular highlights being the Carols by Candlelight service and the monthly 10am cross-tradition Family Services. Worship and Wine is becoming a space to develop contemporary musical talent.
Children’s church
The year has been characterised by a continued commitment to ensure the children and young people are central to our vision, worship and mission. The children continue to be in the centre of the worship space for the beginning of the 11am service and engaged with all-age, interactive talks in the All-In Family Services.
Although a few of our families with young children moved out of London we continue to have a steady flow of local children into church, with or without their parents. The 11am service has seen our children grow in discipleship and we have had some new additions from around the locality. Our 10am service has seen steady growth with some children being born and some coming along with their families.
The furniture and storage in Rooms 1 and 2 was upgraded thanks to the generosity of one of the parents. There is a pressure on the use of these rooms and a need for more volunteer and staff time to make these spaces more usable for children and families.
Prayer
Prayer is foundational to all the work we do. Any visible action and growth is built on the unseen life of prayer. Morning Prayer in the Chancel at 8.30 became established. The monthly church prayer meeting on the last Tuesday of the month at 7.30-9pm continued through the year, regularly attended by around 12 people. Every month in 2013 a prayer walk in the parish was held. The Thursday 7.30pm Communion is an additional weekly space for contemplative prayer.
Events with a prayer emphasis took place, including ‘Silence, practicing the presence of God’, facilitated by CTC on a Sunday afternoon in Lent which had sacramental meditation. We also put on ‘Walk into Lent’ and ‘Walk with the Trinity’ thanks to Kerst Sikkema from St Paul’s Shadwell. We took part in weeks of prayer with other churches. The Maundy Thursday ‘Watch and Pray’ until midnight was again held in church.
Teaching
As well as preaching from the lectionary we have followed bespoke teaching series, including ‘Choose Life’ in Lent and ‘What God sees in you’ in the Summer, focussed on the 11am service. Congregation members regularly attended the School of Theology run at St Paul’s Shadwell in combination with St Mellitus.
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4. ‘Make Friends’
Life Groups
Life Groups are the midweek meetings at the heart of the church at St Peter’s Bethnal Green. Life Groups have been growing in size, number and prominence within the church. Life Group leaders’ meetings were held for training and mutual support.
In 2013 Life Groups were ‘Chambord Street’, led by Danny & Helen Crane, ‘Goldman Close’, led by Hannah & David Barclay and Andy Walton, ‘The Basement’, led by Bob Barstow and David Butler (following an integration with ‘Camlet Street’), ‘Daylight’, led by Heather Atkinson and ‘Beta’ (a post-Alpha group), led by Maria Wyard.
Three ‘young leaders meetings’ were held at The Vicarage, including training input specific to the group given by Colin Crawley and Danny Aanderud of CRM.
Youth work
In 2013 the infrequency and instability of young people in our area has been a challenge. To remedy this we have taken on a Youth Work Student from St Mellitus, Beth Tidd and a one-year youth intern through our ‘Kapow’ scheme, Joe Garratt. Beth is committing to three years at St Peter’s and we are working at engaging the church congregation in local, contextual youth work. Young people are engaged on four social levels: Level One is through 121, or 221, individual discipleship at church or midweek. Level Two is on a small group setting where small groups meet around the bible to learn more about Jesus. This happens twice a week at St Peter's. Level Three is a social setting where young people are encouraged to engage with each other and the wider church. Level Four is on a gathered stage where a large group of young people get together to worship and pray. This has taken place through Access Tower Hamlets, which is a Tower Hamlets-wide youth gathering, pioneered through St Peter's.
We were able to support some younger youth to go on Longbarn, the Scripture Union camp now run by a member of St Peter’s, David Butler. We took a number of young people to Focus and will be repeating this again this summer with added provision for ‘marginalised young people’.
Focus 2013
40 people from St Peter’s Bethnal Green, including 20 children and young people, joined SPS and other HTB church plants and friends for a week’s Christian teaching holiday at Mablethorpe in July. Focus offers a variety of different activities, a wonderful children’s ministry, incredible worship and some provocative talks and seminars.
The St Peter’s group were split between staying in static caravans and camping combined with SPS, AHB and St Luke's, Milwall. External funding was sought to offer bursaries. St Peter's brought an innovation to Focus this year, by hosting a popular 8am Service of Holy Communion daily, thus adding to the overall impact of the week.
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Discovering God
The Chambord St Life Group ran a lively Alpha in church during the Autumn, welcoming 12 old and new faces to explore the Christian faith. Other Life Groups supported by cooking for Alpha each week and there was a dedicated 'task force'. One person has since been baptised and another is currently preparing for an Easter baptism. Others are continuing to explore faith or have started to worship again.
With new people joining the Life Group after the course, it has been able to plant a new group. When Alpha is not running Adam, Heather, and other trained leaders have met individually with at least 7 people enquiring into the Christian faith to do 'Discovery Bible Studies' on a 1:1 or small group basis over a series of weeks.
Family Life Courses
Every opportunity has been taken to make friendships with the 10 couples who had their banns read at St Peter's or who were married in church by special license. Marriage Preparation has been offered to all with two couples completing the full Marriage Preparation Course (by extension or at other churches) in which Adam and Heather also gave 2:2 support to individual couples.
Relationship building
• A pop-up garden café was planned and run throughout the Summer on Sunday afternoons, selling hot and cold drinks and home made cake. This created a profit of approx £100 per week. The café was repeated in the church in Advent. • On Sunday 2 June we held ‘The Big Lunch’ in the garden in partnership with THCH, attended by many local people. • A summer team thank you and ‘graduation’ party for the children’s church was held on 23 June, including a BBQ and bouncy castle. • To mark ‘Petertide’ we held a low-key Open Day on 29 June as well as a church family party on the Sunday. • The annual visit to Bramfield, Stapleford and Waterford villages in Hertfordshire was held on 20 July, with many people from St Peter’s visiting for the first time. We remain extremely grateful for the generosity and welcome of people there. • Our Annual Harvest Supper was held in the Mission Hall on Harvest Sunday 7 October. A larger team to prepare and clear up was welcomed. • Two women’s breakfasts were held, one in a flat and another at The Pebble Centre. • Thanks to good relationships, the first St Peter’s men’s ‘bacon & banter’ breakfast was held at The Marksman pub on 7 December, with guest speaker Graham McClure, a Christian who is a builder and runs the development charity ‘GoMADinTanzania’.
All the courses, activities, events and mission outlined above could not take place without the much appreciated help of congregation volunteers as well as staff.
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5. ‘Change the world’
Commmunity organising
In 2013 Shoreditch Citizens evolved into 2 distinct organising groups; Hackney Citizens and Tower Hamlets Citizens. We been since been an active member institution of Tower Hamlets Citizens, the local Chapter of Citizens UK. We are developing leaders within our community and have been part of building this new Borough-wide alliance.
One of our new young leaders has been an active member of the new Tower Hamlets safety action team which has been mapping areas across the borough which are unsafe. He was part of the core team who organised a CitySafe walk of 90 people through the borough where he shared his story with the mayor of Tower Hamlets and Metropolitan Borough Commander. He has also been part of developing a new team at his school.
St Peter’s has been continuing to maintain the Hackney Road CitySafe Zone as the major campaign focus for St Peter's and the work has been featured in ‘East End Life’, the ‘Evening Standard’, and Salvation Army's 'Warcry'. A number of schools have been recruited into the campaign as a result of the work begun at St Peter's.
We hosted two ‘Jellicoe’ interns in July, Selina Stone and Tom Christmas. They stayed at The Vicarage and worked with staff and volunteers to apply their training on community organizing in a church, which had been run by CTC.
The Shoreditch Group
We host the administrative and practical hub for The Shoreditch Group, based from the church office and funded via a specific grant given through St Peter’s by The Bishop of London’s Mission Fund. This relational network of church leaders, run by Adam and Helen Moules, collaborates to scale up social transformation projects. A series of breakfasts have been held to network and focus on particular justice and mercy projects.
The Mission Practice
At the invitation of The Mission Practice as a result of our work with The Shoreditch Group St Peter’s was invited to employ a member of staff as a Networker to link patients with community-based solutions to medical needs. The pilot was started in September, Wilma Bol was employed in the post funded by the Practice and a specific CUF grant.
Food
In addition to being a Tower Hamlets Foodbank collection point, the scheme offering food parcels via a voucher scheme to those most in need in the local community, we had hosted a storage container for food on site which was no longer needed in 2013.
We continue to partner with Foodbank by making regular collections on their behalf and have received food from partners, notably Mac’s News on Colombia Road, as well as churches with whom we are in relationship, notably Stapleford. The collection for Foodbank on Harvest Sunday was vey sizeable.
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We held a monthly ‘community meal’ following the Family Service, a ‘bring & share and take away’ event that is open to all. This became established as part of St Peter’s life.
Outreach
• Two Life Groups combined to help paint the flat of a local resident in need. • A strategic meeting was held with Mike Tyrrell and senior team at THCH. • A St Peter’s group participated in the consultation on the Queen Elizabeth Children’s Hospital development with Rydon and Family Mosaic. • The Bingo group was wound up and transferred to QSA in Zander Court. • Door-knocking with invitations and introductions, offering prayer and seeking spiritual conversations has taken place on a number of occasions in the year. • Colombia Primary School sent their Year 4 classes to visit the church, in part to learn about the Christmas story. Adam and Bob visited the school to talk to and interact with their Year 5 classes about the Easter story. • Teams of volunteers from St Peter’s helped the Zander Court gardening Club project digging and planting the Elver Gardens raised beds. • Tower Hamlets Adoption and Fostering was given a Sunday stall in church and people were encouraged to connect with the service as potential carers. • Steve and Michelle Addison, global leaders training in disciple-making movements, rand a two-day conference at the Mission Hall, through the auspices of CRM. • LiveSmart, the money advice course from the Shadwell Money Advice Centre based at St Paul’s Shadwell, ran a day’s training for congregation members. • 2 congregation members were Mission Year trainees, 3 are involved as trainers.
Leadership
As Vicar, Adam was involved with the following bodies: • The Cinnamon Network – delegate and Advisory panel member • SPEAR – delegate and potential church host • The London Missional Housing Bond – Steering Group • Citizens UK – Executive Committee of Shoreditch Citizens, table host to ++Canterbury at the UK Citizens Summit and trainer on 2-day training • St Mellitus – teaching community organising with Angus Ritchie • Presence and Engagement Network – Tower Hamlets Deanery Representative • The Contextual Theology Centre – Senior Tutor, and Jellicoe Community interviewer and intern host • The Shoreditch Group – founder organiser • Hackney Foodbank – Trustee
Money
Fundraising: Rob and Helen Quail and friends took part in the London to Brighton Bike Ride to raise money for BHF and St Peter’s. Pam Haluwa and Peggy Chambers walked on the London Ride and Stride route to raise money for Historic churches and St Peter’s.
Giving: collections were taken for the Philippines disaster relief, the Bishop of Stepney’s Discretionary Fund, Foodbank, St Saviour’s Priory food store, GoMADin Tanzania.
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6. Management & Administration
Church Staff
As noted above, new to the staff team, James Mc Sporran joined as a Worship Central Academy placement student, Beth Tidd joined as a Youth Work degree student placed at St Peter’s and Joe Garrett joined as a Kapow intern and participant on Mission Year. Caitlin Burbridge became attached to St Peter’s as a church-based organiser employed through CTC. Rob Quail spent the year working on a fixed-term contract as the full time Development Manager, part time from November.
Heather Atkinson started her second year as an Ordinand on placement at St Peter’s. Helen Moules, until now exclusively working as the Project Manager of the Shoreditch Group swapped some of her hours to add a part time role as the Operations Manager at St Peter’s. Bob Barstow, who had been part time Children’s and Youth Work Leader funded largely through the Church and Communities Fund and employed via CTC came onto the St Peter’s payroll as the full time Youth, Children and Worship Manager. Wilma Bol moved from being the church Administrator to a more part time role as the Sunday Services Administrator at the same time as taking up a whole person care role through St Peters as the Community Services Networker at The Mission Practice.
Two ordinands in training at theological college undertook short term placements with St Peter’s: Carol Morgan, a 3rd year from Cuddesdon and Chris Smaling, a 2nd year from SEITE. They participated in the life of the church, including preaching and participating in prayer meetings and group leading.
Sean Currie left the staff in July to rerun to South Africa after his year as our Worship Central Academy placement student. Andy Walton’s position on staff as a church-based community organiser ended when he went to Palestine as a peace observer after which he was to return to work fully at CTC. Andy Mathews who had offered his services as a staff volunteer working on Shoreditch Group and Shoreditch Citizens projects left to join Near Neighbours/CUF as a grants officer.
Staff meetings were established weekly at church on Tuesday mornings with monthly visits to St Paul’s Shadwell to participate in a staff teams ‘Learning Community’.
Media
• The London ‘Evening Standard’ reported on development plans in the crypt and the CitySafe work, noting the potential of a refuge for gangs; • BBC Radio 4 ‘The Sunday Programme’ carried interviews from Pam and Adam in a piece about church engagement in social transformation; • BBC London TV News came to film the Carols by Candlelight and St Peter’s was reported on alongside St Paul’s Cathedral as a Christmas ‘good news’ story; • The first newly-published report from The Contextual Theology Centre, ‘Just Church’, carried an extensive case study of St Peter’s; • Researchers from Theos, the public theology think tank, came to interview a range of St Peter’s people and community leaders about the growth and impact of St Peter’s;
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• Researchers from the Church Missionary society (CMS), on behalf of the Church Commissioners, interviewed Adam and other St Peter’s leaders about the re-start process and practicalities, now contained in the report ‘From Anecdote to Evidence’; • The Children’s Society report ‘The Heart of the Kingdom’ carried a case study of St Peters and our work with children and young people.
Communications
This year we carried out our design in-house, building on the logos and banners that had been designed for us in 2011. Term cards continued to be produced roughly quarterly in house using Pages and a local printer. Slides and visuals became increasingly uniform. A series of weekly video notices ‘St Peter’s News’ was started and is also created in-house using smartphone cameras and iMovie.
The website remained content-managed in house and was overhauled in the Autumn, reorganised to be ore user-oriented. The Twitter account is managed by Adam and Bob and gathered 203 followers. Our email communication is also in house using Mailchimp. At the end of the year, there were 82 (77) ‘core team’ members, 16 (22) ‘regular members’ and 66 (42) ‘visitors’ on the church ‘Mailchimp’ database, as well as 31 ‘former members, 60 ‘friends’ and 53 ‘community connections’.
Development
Much work was spent on working up options for the development of the site at St Peter’s, concentrating on the church. The PCC spent a Saturday morning visiting St Augustine’s Highbury and St David’s Holloway as part of their investigation into the potential development options at St Peter’s. A well-attended ‘Masterplan’ workshop was held, run by Rob Quail early into his post as Development Manager.
A design team was selected, appointed and briefed following a restart of our relationship with Nick Weedon of HMDW, our architect. A variety of community stakeholders were contacted as part of the process of outreach building a case for an application for grant funding, mainly from the Heritage Lottery Fund. A detailed design scheme was developed, the DAC were consulted, and a site visit held.
An emerging partnership with St Andrew by the Wardrobe was developed which, it is hoped, will grow to become established as an active collaboration, primarily on social transformation, and which will be of mutual benefit to our strategic goals.
Church use
St Peter’s hosted a variety of visitors on site, in addition to all noted above: • The Tower Hamlets Deanery Chapter annual BBQ and an induction conducted by the Bishop of Stepney in the church and garden. • St Peter’s TRA, The Tower Hamlets Evangelical Fellowship and the Bethnal Green Ministers group in the church and Room 1. • ‘Tower Hamlets Sing’ Christmas concert in the church. • Ray McInnes, an Archdeacon in Australia, who came to consult on the St Peter’s approach to church planting and growth. • Various photo shoots.
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The church was opened for community events including: • Ride and Stride • The Open Gardens Squares Weekend • The Big Lunch • Summer and Advent Café afternoons
Mission Hall use
Two churches, Alas de Salvacion and Eleos, continued to use the Mission Hall on Sundays throughout the year, and a ministry called Shaddaiville rents the hall on a bi- monthly basis for afternoon prayer meetings. After social enterprise Rubies in the Rubble moved to purpose-built premises early in 2013, Church Resource Ministries took on rent of the ground floor office as an administrative hub and have subsequently made use of the hall for training and discipling local leaders in ministry, which has been beneficial for local collaboration and relationship-building. Following a period of being hosted at St Peter’s Hall Office, Hackney Foodbank established their own premises in Stoke Newington, Hackney in Spring 2013.
The Mission Hall served the community in a range of additional ways: • The GrowTH winter nightshelter made weekly use of the space at the beginning of the year with volunteers provided by Eleos and ChristChurch Mayfair. • Pro bono training events held by SPEAK and Shoreditch Citizens took place. • TRA groups continue to choose to meet in the hall as events arise. • Zumba and Kung Fu classes taught by external instructors have continued to run. • Beginning in September 2013, First Class Learning, an after-school franchise tuition service established its Bethnal Green Centre in the hall on Thursday afternoons, now attracting over 30 local students, providing them a venue in which to strengthen their maths and English learning.
Ad-hoc income has continued to be generated through the letting of the Mission Hall as a venue for birthdays, weddings and parties. Following local concerns a decision was made to restrict the evening hours available for private party bookings to a 6pm finish time. This had the benefit not only of minimizing anxiety where noise and litter outside the Hall at night have occasionally caused a nuisance, but it has also resolved challenges in recruiting a caretaker who is willing to lock up late after lively events. While loss of income was a potential risk, encouragingly this has been counteracted by an increased number of daytime bookings in the latter stage of the year.
Policies
The Archdeacon of Hackney, Ven Rachel Treweek, conducted her Visitation on Remembrance Sunday. The Visitation is primarily an audit exercise to ensure a range of management systems and policies are in place. Rachel spent time with the Vicar and Wardens before and the PCC after declared herself very satisfied with the Visitation.
Vicar’s Report – The Rev’d Adam Atkinson
www.stpetersbethnalgreen.org
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