Joining the electoral role is is a way of saying 'I belong' - an act of commitment to the local church and to the Church as a whole. It also enables you to vote at the church's Annual Meeting (APCM). If you are eligible to join, we would love to encourage you to sign up. To be on the church electoral roll you need to have worshiped at St Paul or Christ Church regularly for at least the last six months or be resident in the parish. You should be baptised and at least 16 years old.
This year we are preparing a new role in accordance with the Church Representation Rules. Everyone who was on the Electoral Roll in the last term (2019-2025) will be removed and must rejoin and apply below or using a paper copy available in church.
In order to be eligible to vote in the next APCM, members must rejoin before 3rd May 2025.
The new Roll will take effect on 4th May 2025.
Full Name (Required)
First Name
Last Name
Preferred Title (If any)
NOTES
1 The only Churches at present in communion with the Church of England are other Anglican Churches and certain foreign Churches, as listed in the Supplementary Material to the Canons (but note Rule 83(3) of the Church Representation Rules, which provides for any question as to whether a particular Church is in communion with the Church of England to be decided by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York acting jointly).
2 Membership of the electoral roll is also open to members in good standing of a Church not in communion with the Church of England which subscribes to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity where those members are also prepared to declare themselves to be members of the Church of England.
3 Every six years a new roll is prepared and those on the previous roll are informed so that they can reapply. If you are not resident in the parish but were on the roll as a habitual worshipper and have been prevented by illness or other sufficient cause from worshipping for the past six months, you should complete declaration 2B or 2C as follows – (a) delete the first set of words in square brackets and (b) at the end of the second set of words in square brackets, briefly state the reason for not having worshipped as mentioned.
4 If you have any problems with this Form, please approach the clergy or leadership team responsible for the parish, who will be pleased to help you. The electoral roll officers are Bob Vincent (Christ Church) and David Harwood (St Paul).
5 In this Form ‘parish’ means ecclesiastical parish.
Use of email addresses and other personal data
6 You do not have to provide an email address on this Form. If you do provide one, the Parochial Church Council and the electoral roll officer are entitled to use that email address to communicate with you in connection with the maintenance or revision of the Roll or the preparation of a new Roll or with elections to or membership of the Council.
7 The Church Representation Rules impose certain requirements for your name and address to be given to a third party, such as the diocesan electoral registration officer, in connection with elections to or membership of a deanery synod, diocesan synod or the House of Laity of the General Synod. If you provide an email address on this Form, it will be given to the third party along with your postal address.
8 A third party to whom your name and address have been given under the Church Representation Rules is in certain cases required by the Rules to pass them on to another person, such as the presiding officer in a synodical election. If you provide an email address on this Form, that email address will be given to the other person along with your postal address.
9 Any person to whom your email address or other personal data is given under the Church Representation Rules is required by those Rules to hold the data securely. Furthermore, if you do provide an email address on this Form, that does not give anybody the right to use it for any purpose other than those permitted by the Rules; so it cannot, for example, be used for social matters or fund-raising.
10 The roll is published after each annual revision and after the preparation of a new roll. The published roll will include your name (as well as the name of every other person on the roll) but none of your other personal data (as defined by the Data Protection Act 2018) will be made public as a result of your inclusion on the roll.