PPC
A meeting of the Parish Pastoral Council will be held at 19:30 on Tuesday September 18 2007, in the Houlden Hall. PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE.
Please note that Other Business is reserved for urgent matters, arising after the Agenda was distributed or raised by parishioners attending the meeting.
Dear All,
Fr Des has forwarded a series of preparatory documents for next year's
Assembly, which are attached.
If you have difficulty reading them for any reason, please let me know
and I'll turn them into a more universal format that a Word document.
Best wishes
Bob
As you may remember, we are affiliated to the Sheffield City of Sanctuary initiative. Below is their latest newsletter.
Best wishes
Bob
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Subject: City of Sanctuary News
From: "Craig Barnett"
Date: Wed, July 25, 2007 4:29 pm
To: craig@cityofsanctuary.com
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News July 2007
What does it mean to be a City of Sanctuary?
Following the recent announcement of Sheffield becoming the first City
of Sanctuary, we now want to work out a shared set of practical goals
for Sheffield’s engagement with asylum-seeker and refugees. We will be
asking for the views of all our supporters and aim to hold a ‘World
Café’ consultation event in October, leading to a plan that we can all
share responsibility for working towards.
Asylum Blogs
Our website now has a section called ‘Asylum Blogs’, written by
Sheffield based asylum-seekers and refugees. Please have a look and
encourage them by leaving your comments on their articles. You can also
comment on any news articles on the site by clicking on ‘Comments’ at
the foot of any article. It would really help to have the views of our
supporters on the website, as our critics are already quite well
represented…
Volunteer Advocates Needed
ASSIST is looking for volunteer befriender/advocates who can accompany
asylum-seekers to appointments and offer moral support in meetings with
solicitors and officials. If you could offer some time for this very
important role please contact Paul Snell at:
phsnell@onetel.com
City of Sanctuary on Facebook
There is now a City of Sanctuary group on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2414298833
If you are a Facebook user, please invite your friends.
Towards a City of Sanctuary in Leicester
We are working with a group in Leicester which is keen to develop their
own City of Sanctuary initiative there. They are planning a meeting in
October for local groups to explore the idea. There has also been
interest from Leeds, Coventry and London.
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City of Sanctuary
www.cityofsanctuary.com
Bob Rae - Secretary
Essie Wajoe
Michael Connell
Cathy Wilson
Colin Taylor
David Bellamy
Desmond Sexton
Frances Taylor
Joshua Nem
Maggie O'Malley
Paul Helliwell
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see below
see attached file
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Each year a third of the PPC members must stand down. The term of office is three years and a member may serve no more than two consecutive three year terms without a break. By the end of this year, Mavis and Frances will have served three years, so should be standing down. Both ARE ELIGIBLE for re-election. We also have one fewer member than we need, which leaves us with one more place to find.
Unless anyone plans to resign from the PPC, Maggie has offered to stand down. She would be eligible for re-election under the original
arrangements for elections to the PPC which were designed to ensure we had a steady turnover of members.
If anyone wishes to retire from the PPC please let me know before our next meeting.
Bob Rae