The (ECC)
The Council acts on behalf of the partner churches in regulatory, oversight and governance roles. Members are elected from the local churches, and normally serve for one year
Regulatory
The Partnership Council is the trustee body of the charity, and is responsible for all legal aspects of the partnerships work; Child Protection, Employment law, Data Protection etc.
The Anglican Parochial Church Council delegates its activities to the P.C where possible, though Anglican members of the P.C will act as P.C.C. when necessary.
Oversight
We act in partnership with the Ministers In Spiritual Oversight of our partnership churches, and their leadership teams and church committees, to help achieve our mission. The Christian community has a duty to worship God and to make disciples of all nations, in most cases this is best achieved locally; in service to our community we often work best together, the P.C organises our resources. We also organise joint meetings and services for the benefit of us all.
The P.C. endorses the appointment of governors to our local Church Schools.
Apart from our essential administrative groups, we support cross-partnership work in running youth groups:
phaze - for secondary school years 7-10 (ages 11-14), and
G2G - for school and college students years 11-13 (ages 15-18 or so)
We support a Faith Sharing Team, which is tasked to encourage and help us all to talk easily about the love and work of God in our lives
We are also responsible for this website and its content - the workmanship is that of the Web Site Team
Governance
The P.C is responsible for relationships and partnerships with our Parent Bodies - the wider church, and for working in partnership with other local churches.
The Partnership hold membership rolls in common, we budget our resources across all the partner churches, and we have a single partnership office
We take responsibility for external communications.
Current members of the Partnership Council are as follows:
Rev. Anne Carter
M - HTS, T
Pete Gilder
W
Rev. Dick Gray
Partnership Treasurer
M - W
W
Ed Poole
Partnership Secretary
ASLM
David Ratnam
ASLM
Rev. Tudor Roberts
M - ASLM
Chris Scarisbrick
Council Chair
W
Rev. Jane Skinner
HTS
Rev. Stephen Skinner
P Team Leader
M - SMLT
All Saints
Lydiard Millicent
Holy Trinity
Shaw
St Mary’s
Lydiard Tregoze
Toothill
Westlea
