{"id":12191,"date":"2025-02-14T15:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12191"},"modified":"2025-02-14T15:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:41:49","slug":"heads-up-new-electoral-roll-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/02\/heads-up-new-electoral-roll-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads Up: New Electoral Roll Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1518.4px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h3 style=\"text-align: center; --fontSize: 32; line-height: 1.3;\" data-fontsize=\"32\" data-lineheight=\"41.6px\" class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\">Heads Up: New Electoral Roll Preparation<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone wp-image-12192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ELECTORAL-ROLL-6-YEAR-REFRESH-600x600.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ELECTORAL-ROLL-6-YEAR-REFRESH-600x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27500%27%20height%3D%27500%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20500%20500%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27500%27%20height%3D%27500%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ELECTORAL-ROLL-6-YEAR-REFRESH-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ELECTORAL-ROLL-6-YEAR-REFRESH-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ELECTORAL-ROLL-6-YEAR-REFRESH-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ELECTORAL-ROLL-6-YEAR-REFRESH-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ELECTORAL-ROLL-6-YEAR-REFRESH-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ELECTORAL-ROLL-6-YEAR-REFRESH-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ELECTORAL-ROLL-6-YEAR-REFRESH-800x800.png 800w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ELECTORAL-ROLL-6-YEAR-REFRESH.png 1080w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Heads up regarding preparation for the New Electoral Roll<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Every Church of England parish must keep an Electoral Roll which is a list of names and addresses of every person who can vote at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) which this year is on 27 April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A completely new roll must be prepared every six years leading up to the meeting and it\u2019s Christ Church and St Mary\u2019s turn to prepare a completely new list this year. No names can be carried forward from the previous roll, so those currently on it will be informed, either via email or post, that it\u2019s time to re-apply.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There is no action to take at this stage but when you are contacted about reapplying, please do so as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You can find out more about our requirements to refresh the Electoral Roll on the Church of England website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/about\/leadership-and-governance\/legal-services\/church-representation-rules\/part-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ian Farr, Electoral Roll Officer<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cc-home-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12194,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions\/12194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}