PARISH CHURCH STEWARDS ANNUAL REPORT 2009/10
We would like to thank all the stewards who have manned the desk during the past year. The church just couldn’t function properly without them. The building works and worst winter in 30 years certainly haven’t made it easy but everyone stoically carried on. A recent questionnaire proved very interesting – 67 were returned completed. Stewards were asked to tick which age band they belonged to.
No surprises that the majority were senior citizens but the fact that the average age of ¾ of our 105 stewards is 80 years old just goes to show how people enjoy the job. Some stewards are still gallantly doing duty aged 90. The length of time of service varied greatly from 1 to25years. One person has been stewarding for all of those 25 years and 7 have done 20years. Three people couldn’t remember and said ‘ages’!
When asked how long they wanted the hours on duty to be twice as many said they preferred it to remain 1½ to those who would happily do 2 hours.
Manning the shop or welcoming the public was evenly split with 30 preferring the hop to 35 welcoming. Of course, we know that most people are happy doing both, as they are doing it now with no grumbles, but it was interesting to know. Sometimes it is very difficult to get two people to steward at a certain time and we have many ‘singles’ which is not ideal. Again the response was evenly split with half not minding being on their own and half not liking it. There were lots of very helpful comments which will be considered now that the worst of the disruption
is over and we look forward to lots and lots of visitors coming through the door to
enjoy our lovely church welcomed by such nice people! Sian Defferary, Stewards Coordinator
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