CASTEL ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH MEETING

CREST

PARISH OF THE CASTEL

PUBLICATION

The Rector and Churchwardens of the Castel Parish invite the Electors and Ratepayers thereof to meet at La Chambre de la Douzaine, Les Beaucamps, on Wednesday 12 March 2025 at 7.00 pm to transact the following business:

1.

To pass the Trésor Account for 2024, which has been duly audited, before the Very Reverend T.R. Barker, Dean of Guernsey, or his delegate.

2.

To elect two ratepayers to serve on the Parochial Church Property Management Board to replace Mr. W.G.de L. Luff. MBE and Mr P Hyde whose terms of office have expired but who are both eligible for re-election.

3

To hear the Priest in Charge nominate Mrs. J. M. Roberts as his Warden.

4.

To elect a People’s Warden to replace Mr. C. Workman whose term of office has expired but who is eligible for re-election.

4.

To approve the Parochial Church Property Management Board accounts which are part of the Constables’ accounts for 2024, which have been duly audited.

5.

To receive the annual report of the Management Board in relation to Insurance of the Parochial Church Property.

6.

To appoint Auditors for the 2025 Parochial Church Property Management Board Accounts.

7.

To decide whether they are in favour of voting the following amounts to be levied by means of Owner’s Rate for the current year:

£

Ordinary Repairs to the Parish Church

5,000.00

Extra-ordinary repairs to the Parish Church identified in the Quinquennial survey, namely internal plasterwork

25,000.00

Insurance – Parish Church

5,500.00

Tax on Real Property – Land belonging to the Cure

375.00

Upkeep and repair of the Parish Church Clock

400.00

Upkeep of the Parish Church bells and renumeration of the bell ringers on public occasions

80.00

Audit fees

500.00

Publications and notices

100.00

Total

£36,955.00

8.

To decide the hour at which Ecclesiastical Parish meetings shall be held in 2026.

9.

To request the Constables to apply to the Royal Court for a Remede to levy the aforesaid sums.

Rt Revd N. Drayson 
Priest-in-Charge    

J Roberts

C. Workman                                                                                                             Churchwardens