Parish Organisation at Saint Laurence’s

In May 2024, our Open Meeting approved new arrangements for parish organisation.

Our Parish Pastoral Council (PPC) is now the main focus for helping the Parish Priest with day-to-day running of the parish. The PPC has a membership of parishioners who are committed to regular meetings and to help get things done. Membership will be refreshed annually. PPC meetings will primarily focus on managing the work of the PPC and related core teams. Dates of meetings will be publicised, and parishioners who are not members are welcome to attend.

Parishioners' Open Meetings will remain as a venue to update the whole parish and enable broader discussion of significant issues or ideas. Open Meetings may be called as required, and there must be at least one Annual General Meeting per year.

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Further information

Dates and details for future Open Meetings will be publicised here. Meetings are usually hybrid in style - participants can attend in person in the parish rooms or via Zoom. If you have a question about or agenda item for an Open Meeting, or wish to request an Open Meeting (as detailed in the Open Meetings constitution), please email openmeetings@saintlaurence.org.uk or talk to the current chair of the PPC or Parish Priest

• The Parish Pastoral Council (PPC)
• History and background to the Parish Open Meetings and Forum
• Constitutions of the Parishioners' Open Meeting and of the PPC

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St Laurence's Parish Self Appraisal

As part of our response to the change in Parish Priest in September 2024, the Parish Pastoral Council agreed to create a 'Self Appraisal' document summarising the state of the Parish. Our hope is that this will be valuable information for our incoming priest, but also that it will become a 'living document' that we can regularly review and update, helping us to identify parish priorities.

We would like to involve the whole Parish in continuing to review and update this document. Version 1 is available below (dated October 2024). Please read it and let us know what is missing or could be changed? We invite people to think particularly about what the strengths of our Parish are and what challenges we face that we need to work together to overcome.

READ THE SELF APPRAISAL (PDF) >

Send your comments to ppc@saintlaurence.org.uk.

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Minutes of meetings

Updates on change of Parish Priest, including notes from emergency PPC meetings.

Minutes of the most recent Open Meeting - 21 May 2024 (PDF) - Finance summary (PDF)

Minutes of the most recent regular PPC meeting - 2 July 2024 (PDF)

Full archive of Open Meeting (and Parish Forum) minutes since 2007.