All Saints Church - Appley Bridge - The Electoral Roll 

All Saints Church Electoral roll

The Electoral Roll is the official membership list of All Saints as presented to the Diocese of Blackburn. If you are on the Electoral Roll, you are able to nominate, be nominated and vote for PCC and Deanery Synod membership.

Every parish in the Church of England must make a new electoral roll in 2007. This means that if you want to be on the new electoral roll at All Saints you must fill in a form, even if you were on the old one.

What Is The Church Electoral Roll?

It is All Saints register of electors, the list of those qualified to attend and vote at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) where elections take place for:

• (a) the Parochial Church Council (PCC)
• (b) the parish’s representatives on the Deanery Synod.

Any person entitled to attend the APCM may raise any question of parochial or general church interest. Renewal of the electoral roll takes place every 6 years. In a year of renewal, no names are carried over from the old roll and everyone must make a new application to be included on the new roll.

What Difference Does It Make?

If you enrol, you become a voting member of the Church of England and so help to ensure that all the synod councils of the Church—the Parochial Church Council, the Deanery Synod, the Diocesan Synod, and the General Synod—are fully representative of its members. Synoded government gives an opportunity for partnership between bishops, clergy and laity in the life of the Church. First, the system is intended to enable church people at every level to feel that they are in touch with the Church as a whole and can play their part in decision making. Secondly, the laity now have their place in every aspect of church life, including its doctrine and services.

Do I Qualify?

To qualify for admission on the Electoral Roll, you will either need to be a member of the Church of England living in the parish, a member of the Church of England not living in the Parish but having worshipped habitually in the parish for the 6 months prior to enrolment, or be a member in good standing of a church, not in communion with the Church of England, which subscribes to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity and also declare yourself to be a member of the Church of England and having habitually attended public worship in the parish for the last 6 months.

Electoral Roll admissions are considered at each PCC meeting.

If you have any queries then please contact Mike Sinnott on 252 065.