Electoral Roll

Every parish in the Church of England is required to maintain an electoral roll. Your name can be on the electoral roll if you are aged 16 or over, are baptised and live within the parish or, if living outside the parish, you have attended worship regularly for at least six months. Being on the electoral roll entitles you to vote at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting, and stand for election as a churchwarden or member of the Parochial Church Council. It is also one of the ways in which you may qualify to be married in the church and, if there is a churchyard which is still open for new burials, to be buried in the churchyard.

During the year we encourage new worshippers to join the roll, and we remove the names of those who have died. However, it is recognised that people move house or may just drift away from worship, therefore every six years each parish is required to scrap its existing electoral roll and start afresh. Everyone who wishes to remain on the electoral roll must complete a new form.

The six yearly revision is due this year and must be completed at least two months before our Annual Parochial Church Meeting which will take place at 19:00 on Wednesday 28 May at St Margaret’s Church, Downham. It is convenient that we should be doing the revision now so that it truly reflects the worshipping community of our new combined parish.

If you are eligible and would like to be on our electoral roll, please collect a printed form from one of the three churches in our parish or click here to download one. Completed forms should be returned by one of the following methods: