The Annual Church Meeting was held on Sunday, 9th April, at 11a.m. in the Church Hall.

The first business, at the Meeting of Parishioners, was to elect or re-elect two Churchwardens for the following year. Ann Peterken and Dick Wilde were re-elected. All parishioners on either the church or the civil electoral roll could vote at this meeting.

There followed the Annual Parochial Church Meeting, the APCM. All parisioners on the Church Electoral Roll could take part in and vote at this meeting. There were reports from the Vicar, the Treasurer and other officers of the Parochial Church Council, the PCC, on the events of the last year, and what had been achieved in the parish. At this meeting, four representatives to the Deanery Synod were confirmed in office or elected for a period of three years. They became ex-officio members of the PCC.

A further election for up to twenty ordinary members of the PCC was then held. Ordinary PCC members must be elected or re-elected annually. Sidespersons were also appointed at this meeting, and an auditor of the Treasurer's accounts appointed. The auditor must not be member of the PCC. The APCM is always interesting and offers an opportunity for anyone to voice opinions on the way the church has been or is being managed.

Source: The Spire Magazine - 2000 April