Greetings to you all.
A reminder that, as this is the first Sunday of the month, we will be having our usual Bring and Share Picnic after the morning service
This update contains:
- A link for the Morning Service of Mindful Meditation, Music & Conversation
- Games, Recipes and Equality on Saturday and Sunday 15th-16th November—led and facilitated by Aisha Madha (flyer in the newsletter)
- A note about this coming Thursday’s Zoom “Kiitsu Kyōkai” Seiza Meditation & Conversation Meeting this week, 6th November at 19:30-21:00
- Links to the minister’s address/podcast
- A summary of the Cambridge Unitarian Church Trustees’ Meeting on Thursday 23rd October (full minutes available, as always, in the Common Room, just ask)
- A summary by Nick Butler-Woods from the General Assembly of the Three Horizons Workshop on 18th October in which we explored the present and future of Cambridge Unitarians
- Planning Application
- A link to additional national Unitarian news
A link for the Morning Service of Mindful Meditation, Music & Conversation
Our regular Sunday Morning Service of Mindful Meditation, Music and Conversation starts in the church on Emmanuel Road at 10.30 am and finishes at 11:40 am. Should you wish to join this by Zoom, please use the following permanent link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86882949446?pwd=kliXbdABEfbU8FjDMtNRNJ4Lr2lb5z.1
Meeting ID: 868 8294 9446
Passcode: 612407
Games, Recipes and Equality led and facilitated by Aisha Madha on Saturday and Sunday 15th-16th November—details in the attached flyer. Please let Aisha know if you wish to attend.
A link for the Thursday morning/evening Zoom “Kiitsu Kyōkai” Seiza Meditation & Conversation Meetings:
This coming Thursday, 6th November, the meeting will be at 19:30-21:00.
For more information, please visit:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/p/kiitsu-kyokai.html
https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/evening-service/
Join Thursday Zooms at the same link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85775868333?pwd=LEuyKnfbRJORbqsuzkhsonHui4ttwA.1
Meeting ID: 857 7586 8333
Passcode: 970614
Links to the minister’s address/podcast:
In written form at:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com
Or as podcast episodes at:
A summary of the Cambridge Unitarian Church Trustees’ Meeting on Thursday 23rd October (full minutes available, as always, in the Common Room, just ask)
1. Progress of the plans for the church, now before the Planners
2. Visit to the site by the Planners, regarding our plans.
3. The four online objections to our building plans.
4. Preparations to lay all factors about our plans before the congregation.
5. Valuations of the manse by Cheffins and Bidwells (c£444,000/c£500,000).
6. Workshop run by Nick Butler-Watts on 18 October.
7. Aysha’s planned workshop on 14/15/16 November.
8. Aysha’s online Safeguarding training, to become our Safeguarding Officer.
9. Handover from our previous Safeguarding Officer.
10. Two Trustees’ attendance at regular meetings of the Safeguarding Network and booking for the Charity Commission one day workshop in December.
11. Ongoing work by Treasurer and Church Administrator to complete the details of signatories for all our CIO financial accounts.
12. Google Diary for Trustees’ regulatory commitments and general reminders.
13. Creation of a physical file of paperwork for all church contracts and bills and relevant letters.
14. Attention to the 13 Policies on Trustees’ Annual Report (TAR) as to which our church needs: planned work to update those.
15. Review of our Membership Procedure.
16. Agree the cost of the necessary legal work still outstanding to complete the Transfer Documents relating to us becoming a CIO.
17. Contracts for the Minister and Church Administrator needed, with us as a CIO.
18. Insurance position for the manse.
19. Continuing the work on the transfer document we need for our Shawbrooks account.
20. Renew contract with Ecotricity and plans to review in a year.
21. Timing of our Charity Commission Annual Report.
22. Minutes of the last Life of the Church Meeting.
23. Pastoral Care: with and without the Minister in place.
24. Minister’s 2026 stipend.
25. Letter to inform the Minister about his stipend, and to put in the file.
26. Minister’s Pension fund position.
27. New contract for an updated photocopier.
28. Next meeting
A summary by Nick Butler-Woods from the General Assembly of the Three Horizons Workshop on 18th October in which we explored the present and future of Cambridge Unitarians
Planning Application—if you would like to look at the Planning Application, the Church has put in can be found at the following link:
https://applications.greatercambridgeplanning.org/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=SYVKZODXGQW00
There are a lot of drawings, sections and plans as separate documents on the application, but the Heritage & Access Statement draws everything together in one PDF (see below) and outlines the process leading to the final plans. Please remember that these plans have been submitted simply so that we will soon have before us some necessary information so that, as a congregation, we will be able to decide together how best to use/reuse/reconfigure our buildings in the coming years. It’s vital to be absolutely clear that no decision has been reached about what we might, or might not, do, and no such decision can be reached before the congregation has worked through all the possibilities available to it.
For additional national Unitarian news, please click on the following link:
Uni-news
https://us20.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=1590ea5f53cdc6fb8a17c311c&id=7bce4a21b7
Andrew James Brown
(Days off are generally Monday and Tuesday)
Minister
Cambridge Unitarian Church
Emmanuel Road
Cambridge
CB1 1JW
07477 462 110 (Mobile)
http://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/
Blog: Caute
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/
Podcast: Kiitsu—Returning-to-One
https://kiitsu.buzzsprout.com
Jiyū Shūkyō / Free-Religion
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/p/free-religion.html
Seiza Meditation (Quiet Sitting)
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/p/seiza-meditation.html