Parish Office

Note from the office:
Susana will be off for half term. One of our parishioners has kindly offer to help Tuesday and Wednesday. Emails will be only check sporadically. Apologies for any inconvenience.
The Parish Office is usually manned Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday between 10.00am and 1.30pm. Other times can be arranged if we have offers of help.

The parish office is a most important ministry and is a way to help us free up Fr Ruslan's time and to spread the load.

If you think you can help, please get in touch. Increasingly the parish office takes on administration and coordinating volunteers, below is just a few of the things that you could do to help. You don't need to be computer literate as many tasks can be done with a pen and paper!

If you can help, please contact us.

Duties include:

Communications

Respond to emails and telephone messages
Maintain website
Help support the parish project in Uganda
Newsletter – Consider new format, for example a monthly general newsletter and shorter weekly sheet
Email news to parishioners
Improve liaisons with schools – make certain that we are fully aware of what is going on at Cardinal Newman, Salesians, St George’s and Notre Dame
Send info to local press/A&B news about parish successes and certain events
Coordinate rotas
Order office and liturgy supplies
Update parish database
Archive Baptism Records/Marriage/Confirmation etc and update registers
Produce a Parish Asset Register
Produce a Parish Activity Schedule
Support a parish forum
Help to keep the notice boards up to date
Prepare various certificates for signing
Look for grants
Contact contractors for work
Develop pastoral/fundraising strategies
Create a routine maintenance list
Ensure that property defects are logged so that they can be prioritised for repair.

Hall
If you are interested in hiring our hall for meetings, birthday gatherings, weekly classes, please email bookings.walton@abdiocese.org.uk. We will try to answer your query as soon as we can.
Unfortunately, due to the increase in gas and electricity bills, we had to put up our prices. The hourly rate for new bookings is £25. Thank you.