Letter to Philip Lambert

Wednesday 15th September 2004

Richard Betts asked me to contact you about the Parish Website.

This is now up and running, thanks to the good offices of Richard Cox. We have information from St George’s and St Peter’s but are still waiting for St Mary’s contribution. Richard is happy to continue, for the time being at least, as webmaster.

The Pews News is also available for the current and previous week. However if there are any particular events that need to be highlighted, Richard, as webmaster, is happy to do this when the information is sent to him. We need some guidance on this, as to whether this should be a free-for-all or whether it should come from the individual Churches’ representatives/clergy. The representatives for each church as:

St Mary’s - Jean Saddington
St Peter’s - Mike Morgan
St George’s - Richard Cox and me

One of the important things the website could do for the parish is to improve communication between the Churches. To this end, we do believe that it would be useful to have a parish diary available, so that important dates can be accessed easily. Mary Wade in the Parish Office would seem to be most able to collate this to send to Richard Cox.

We have had discussions about including various rotas on-line, so that this information is readily accessible to parishioners, but there is some feeling that this is too personal to be so widely available.

We would be grateful for any ideas you have regarding the development of this site.

Tricia Bowen