Parochial Church Council (PCC)

The PCC currently has 22 members, 12 of whom are elected at the annual meeting for a three year term of office and the remainder are ex-officio or co-opted. These include the vicar, the wardens, 4 Deanery Synod reps, and 3 co-opted to represent young people, Scouts and Guides and church music. Standing Committee has 6 members, the incumbent, two churchwardens, lay vice chair, treasurer and secretary. The PCC meets every six weeks with Standing Committee held two weeks prior, to allow for minutes to be produced and sent out with the agendas. Standing Committee considers routine decisions and brings them to PCC via minutes, leaving the PCC to think about bigger issues allowing them to hold a larger picture of the Church and be at its heart, leading the way. The PCC invites reports from all the various church groups with the aim of opening up channels of communication and developing better understandings.

Church Administrator

We have a church administrator employed by the PCC of St. Mary Magdalene Church, Belmont, who can be contacted on (0191) 386 7224. The office is normally staffed on weekday mornings. The general duties of the administrator are:

• Gathering information for the weekly pew sheet and notices for the coming week, this is then formatted by the administrator, using Desktop Publisher.
• Maintaining the rota for duties for staffing levels e.g. chalice duty, welcome duty, sidespersons, prayer rota, and intercessions.
• The administrator also manages and maintains links with other church groups.

Lay Staffing

The staff structure is broken down as follows:
Two readers, Patrick Holroyd and Brian Dobson; two Churchwardens, Sue Wood and Kevin Reynolds; Schools Church and Community Youth Worker, James Robinson; one organist, Gerald Ions; magazine editor, Carol Dover; treasurer, Trevor Uren; administrator, Patrick Holroyd; PCC secretary, Julie Winkless; Parish Hall Manager.