Membership of the PCC
Who can be a member of the PCC?
If you are 16 years old or over, have been on the electoral roll of your parish for at least 6 months and are an actual communicant, and are not disqualified from being the trustee of a charity, you can stand for election to your PCC.
Membership of the PCC
Members of the PCC are drawn from two sources, those elected at the Annual Parish Church Meeting, and those who are ex officio members.
The following are ex officio members:
- All Priests and Deacons licensed to the parish
- Deaconesses and Licensed Lay Workers licensed to the parish
- The churchwardens
- Any person on the electoral roll who is a member of deanery, diocesan or general synod
Additional members may be co-opted onto the council by the PCC during the course of the year.
The number of elected members on a PCC is governed by the Church Representation Rules and is based on the number of people on the electoral roll, but the APCM can determine (to take effect in a year’s time) how many elected members a PCC shall have.
What skills do I need to be a member of the PCC?
Skills may be too prescriptive, it is better perhaps to say that someone interested in becoming a member of the PCC will be:
- A committed member of the congregation
- Interested in and involved with the life of the Church and the local community
- Willing to learn and to share ideas, experience and gifts
- Caring
- Able to listen to another’s point of view
Code of conduct
All PCC members at St Mary’s are expected to follow our code of conduct, which lays out expectations for how PCC members behave.