The Parochial Church Council (PCC) is a body of people which co-operates with the minister (the Rector in the case of All Saints Wokingham) to promote the whole mission of the church in the parish in all its aspects; pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical.
It is the duty of the minister and the PCC to work together. PCC members are charity trustees. Churches are charitable bodies and some churches, like All Saints, because its annual financial turnover is above a certain threshold, are registered charities. The PCC is a body corporate in its own right; it has a legal status to which attach certain rights and duties. The PCC appoints a Standing Committee of at least five people, which includes a minister and churchwardens, to carry out PCC business between the meetings of the PCC according to any directions given by the PCC.
The membership of the PCC of All Saints Wokingham is:
Clergy
- Rector – The Reverend Hannah Higginson
- The Reverend Colin James, Honorary Priest (honorary priest to be nominated for co-option at PCC meeting on 6th June)
3 Churchwardens (1 position vacant)
- Alun James (churchwarden )
- Claire Jones (churchwarden )
(3rd churchwarden post vacant)
5 Deanery Synod representatives
- Anne King (Deanery Synod member)
- Peter Barrett (additional ex-officio member as member of the Church of England General Synod 2021-2024 and also a member of the Oxford Diocesan Synod)
(3 Deanery Synod representative posts vacant)
12 representatives elected from the membership of the church:
- Ian Watson
- David Chapman
- Beatrice Smiles
- David Fellows
- Jean Taylor
- Peter Mason
- Selina Wilkins
- Roshney Jeyakuma
- David Preston
- Elizabeth Marten
- Matt Higginson
Member of church co-opted:
- none
A PCC is made up of different groups as follows;
- all the clergy (and any lay workers) officially licensed to the parish
- the churchwardens one or more of any lay readers (LLMs) licensed to the parish
- lay members of the deanery synod, diocesan synod or General Synod
- the elected lay representatives
- up to 2 persons co-opted to be members by the PCC
