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Director of Finance and Administration - Diocese of Coventry
I am delighted to announce the appointment of Mr David Oglethorpe as the new Director of Finance and Administration for the Diocese of Coventry.
David is currently the Group Accounting Director for Ricardo, a listed plc in the automotive and clean technology sectors. He is a chartered accountant whose other senior positions in Ricardo have included the Group Company Secretary, and Divisional Finance Director roles. David and his wife live in Dunchurch with their two teenage sons.
David will be taking up his new post with us at the beginning of May.
Parish Share
As you are aware, the cut-off date for 2009 parish share receipts was 31 January 2010. The final figure is now in and I am very pleased to be able to let you know that the collection rate for 2009 was 99.1% of the share allocated (98.6% in 2008). In cash terms, the figure received was £57,000 more than in 2008. Detailed statements are being sent out today to Rural and Area Deans, Lay Chairs, and Deanery Treasurers, together with detailed statements for each parish. On behalf of the Diocesan Board of Finance, may I express my profound gratitude for the sacrificial giving which has resulted in this figure.
Clergy Movements
To bring you up to date with some of the clergy movements in and around the Diocese which have been announced in the last couple of months:
- As I hope all of you will know, Bishop Christopher has appointed Morris Rodham as Archdeacon Missioner. He will take a leading role in the fulfilment of the charge given to Bishop Christopher to ‘release the missionary energies of the Diocese’.
- Katrina Scott, whohas been the incumbent of Willenhall since 2004, will also be Dean of Women’s Ministry in the Diocese.
- The Bishop has appointed David Stone as Precentor of Coventry Cathedral in succession to Adrian Daffern. David is currently Team Rector of Newbury and will start his new job in July. He will be installed in early September.
More information on the three appointments above is on the Diocesan Website. Please click here.
- Michael Eaman, a Team Vicar in Cheshire, will be joining the Diocese as House for Duty Minister in the Alcester Minister Group,
- Philip Francis will be leaving the Diocese to become Chaplain to 33 Royal Engineer Regiment,
- Andrew Gandon is to move to St Giles in Exhall from London,
- Malcolm Garratt will also be joining the Diocese, coming to us from Southwell to become Priest in Charge of Dunchurch with Thurslaston,
- John Hall, the Diocesan Director of Social Responsibility, will be moving to the Diocese of Leicester, to become the Diocesan Director of Inter-Faith Relations & Director of the St Philip’s Centre at the start of April,
- Lydia Humphreys, team vicar in the Coventry East team, will be moving away to take up a new post in Bedfordshire,
- Lesley Johnson is to retire from her role in the Coventry East team later this month,
- Mary Lodge, a curate OLM in Budbrooke, will be licensed as an Assistant Minister OLM in May,
- Rosemary Pantling will be stepping down from being Priest in Charge of St Mary’s Cubbington in April,
- Matthew Pittam has moved from being a curate in Leamington to the parish of Holbrooks in Coventry, and will be licensed at the end of March,
- Karen Reeves is to move from being a Hospital Chaplain in Milton Keynes to become a Team Vicar in the Caludon Team.
Consultation on Parish Share
Graeme Pringle of the Parish Share Consultation Group writes:
Dear Colleagues,
Some of you will know that I am a member of the Parish Share Consultation Group. We have been giving careful consideration to the feedback received during the deanery consultations last year. The issues raised are now being addressed in a series of discussion papers, prior to a full debate by Diocesan Synod later this year.
The discussion papers will include:
- Discussion Paper 1 – Calculating the ‘Cost of Ministers’
- Discussion Paper 2 – Sharing the ‘Cost of Ministers’
- Discussion Paper 3 – Vacancies, Glebe and Henry VIII
- Discussion Paper 4 – Parochial Fees
...and others are being considered.
I have attached Discussion Paper 2, because it has been written in response to the feedback received from clergy in several deaneries. It proposes a revised method for sharing the ‘Cost of Ministers’ between deaneries. [Discussion Paper 2 can be downloaded from the Parish Share website, address below.]
The PSCG would be pleased to receive any comments that you might have about this discussion paper. It would be particularly helpful if you could submit these comments via the website at www.parishshare.info This website is very easy to use, and once you’ve logged in you can read the comments from other people. (If you’ve not yet requested a password, or you’ve forgotten it, please use the links on the left-hand menu.) Any other members of your church are also welcome to request their own password, and to submit their comments.
I’m aware that many people receive too many emails. I don’t want to burden you with emails that you don’t want to read, and notification of subsequent discussion papers will only be emailed to people who have requested a password at the parish share website.
With best wishes,
Graeme Pringle
Vicar of St Christopher’s Church, Coventry South
and member of the PSCG
Diocesan Synod Dates 2010
The Diocesan Synod dates for 2010 are as follows:
Saturday 27 March at 9.30am, at Blue Coat School, Coventry
Monday 24 May at 7.00pm, at St Andrew’s Church, Shottery
Wednesday 30 June at 7.00pm, at Claverdon Church Centre, Claverdon
Saturday 6 November at 9.30am, at Harris School, Rugby
The extraordinary Diocesan Synod on the evening of Monday 24 May has been arranged to consider the recommendations of the Parish Share Review Group.
Simon Lloyd
Diocesan Secretary
3 February 2010