Mission Action Plan | The Parish Church | St George | Oakenrod

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Welcome to St George's Church

A friendly welcoming church meeting to worship on Sundays with coffee afterwards in St George's Hall

A place to remember God and share the joy of His love with others

We have good access for the disabled and a car park for twenty vehicles

With a wide variety of church activities and social events

We are prayerfully linked with St George's Baghdad

Working to become Dementia Friendly

Colossians Chapter 3 verse 17 (NRS)

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the Name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

St George's Mission Action Plan

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Having a Mission Action Plan helps us to understand our role in the Church and the community and to acknowledge our strengths and weaknesses and to find a realistic path as we seek to fulfil God’s calling to us.

WHY ARE WE HERE?

· to worship God	· to see our friends & make new ones
· to pray and give thanks to Him	· to encourage other people
· to say sorry and ask for forgiveness	· to welcome the stranger
· to listen and to learn about God	· to share skills & talents
· to serve	· to get support
· to be together	· to balance the books

WHAT ARE WE DOING?

praying, learning and socializing together
supporting each other
supporting others (e.g., through Foodbank, Christian Aid and nominated charities)
supporting other Christians (e.g. St George’s Baghdad)
supporting the community (e.g., through Parents & Toddlers)
becoming more Dementia Friendly
sharing our faith and telling others what it means to us
being open to others
deepening our partnership with St Clement’s and the rest of the Mission Cluster
seeking to balance the books
keeping the place in good order

WHAT MORE COULD WE DO?

Be more accessible
Be more committed
Do more for others
Support each other more
Be more visible
Care for God’s creation

HOW DO WE GET THERE?

ACTION

RESPONSIBILITY

Be more accessible

Dementia friendly resources

Investigate cost of Braille service sheets

Investgate portable ramp for front door (so entrance is the same for all)

Keep the outside door open

Make welcomers more visible (sash / badge) and have them outside of the door

Invite people to coffee in notices

Improve lighting in porch

Clergy

Clergy/PCC

PCC

Sidespeople / Wardens

Clergy

PCC

Be more committed

Support possible FFM Candidate

Support and uphold ALM

Come more frequently

Re-boot scheme ‘I need a lift’ / ’I can offer a lift’

Do a Parish Jobs Audit

Develop a culture of invitation

Clergy / Congregation

Everyone

PCC

Everyone

Do more for others

Maintain our links with St George’s Baghdad - including financial support

Make Dementia Friendly Carol Service an annual event -
invitation to local nursing homes and through Alzheimer’s Society

Pray for streets in the parish and let them know we are praying for them. Use social media to encourage prayer requests

Everyone

Clergy/Congregation

Support each other more

Project Starling

Pray for each other in our weekly lives

Maintain a Parish Directory so we can keep in contact with each other and help each other out (see ‘offering lifts’ and ‘Project Starling’ above)

Make sure GDPR compliant Directory in place

Congregation/Clergy

PCC

Be more visible and share the good news with more people

Repainted noticeboard - up to date

Facebook / A Church near you sites (kept up to date)

Webpage (kept current)

Investigate permission for temporary cross outside Church during Lent

Leaflet with Website / Facebook / ACNY details

PCC

Volunteers

Webspin/Clergy/PCC

Volunteers/PCC

Clergy

Care for God’s Creation

Continue an internal market

Plant bee / butterfly friendly bushes at rear of church

Work towards Bronze Eco-church award

Volunteers

Clergy/Volunteers

St George's Church

Bury Road, Oakenrod
Rochdale
OL11 4ED

07762 585625 Sylvia Barron

CLICK HERE to send a message

07710 452936 Jennifer Holt

07977 748082 Sheila Rush

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Data Privacy Notice St George's

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The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of St George’s, Oakenrod

Your personal data – what is it?

Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).

Who are we?

The PCC of St George’s, Oakenrod is the data controller (contact details below). This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

How do we process your personal data?

The PCC of St George’s, Oakenrod complies with its obligations under the “GDPR” by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

We use your personal data for the following purposes: -

To enable us to provide a voluntary service for the benefit of the public in a particular geographical area as specified in our constitution;
To administer membership records;
To fundraise and promote the interests of the charity;
To manage our employees and volunteers;
To maintain our own accounts and records (including the processing of gift aid applications);
To inform you of news, events, activities and services running at St George’s;
To share your contact details with the Diocesan office so they can keep you informed about news in the diocese and events, activities and services that will be occurring in the diocese and in which you may be interested.

What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

Explicit consent of the data subject so that we can keep you informed about news, events, activities and services and process your gift aid donations and keep you informed about diocesan events.
Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations under employment, social security or social protection law, or a collective agreement;
Processing is carried out by a not-for-profit body with a political, philosophical, religious or trade union aim provided: -
- the processing relates only to members or former members (or those who have regular contact with it in connection with those purposes); and
- there is no disclosure to a third party without consent.

Sharing your personal data
Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will only be shared with other members of the church in order to carry out a service to other church members or for purposes connected with the church. We will only share your data with third parties outside of the parish with your consent.

How long do we keep your personal data[1]?
We keep data in accordance with the guidance set out in the guide “Keep or Bin: Care of Your Parish Records” which is available from the Church of England website [see footnote for link].

Specifically, we retain electoral roll data while it is still current; gift aid declarations and associated paperwork for up to 6 years after the calendar year to which they relate; and parish registers (baptisms, marriages, funerals) permanently.

Your rights and your personal data

Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data: -

The right to request a copy of your personal data which the PCC of St George’s, Oakenrod holds about you;
The right to request that the PCC of St George’s, Oakenrod corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for the PCC of St George’s, Oakenrod to retain such data;
The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time
The right to request that the data controller provide the data subject with his/her personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, (known as the right to data portability), (where applicable) [Only applies where the processing is based on consent or is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject and in either case the data controller processes the data by automated means].
The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;
The right to object to the processing of personal data, (where applicable) [Only applies where processing is based on legitimate interests (or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority); direct marketing and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics]
The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

Further processing

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Protection Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.

Contact Details

To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance contact the Vicar: CLICK HERE to send a message

You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.

[1] Details about retention periods can currently be found in the Record Management Guides located on the Church of England website at: - https://www.churchofengland.org/more/libraries-and-archives/records-management-guides

Working to Become Dementia Friendly

Welcome to St George's Church

St George's Mission Action Plan

WHY ARE WE HERE?

WHAT ARE WE DOING?

WHAT MORE COULD WE DO?

HOW DO WE GET THERE?

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