PARISH OF ST ANDREW’S PRESTEIGNE with ST MICHAEL’S DISCOED

PREPARATION OF NEW CHURCH ELECTORAL ROLL 2025

The Church of England’s Church Representation Rules require that every six years a new Electoral Roll is prepared from scratch for each church/ parish.

2025 is one of those years!

This means that even if you are already on our Electoral Roll, whether you were registered on the last new compilation in 2019 or have been added within the last year, you MUST fill in a new form and return it to our Electoral Roll Officer, Clare Stevens, in order to be included in the 2025 roll.

You can find the registration forms at the back of both St Andrew’s and St Michael’s churches, or do ask the welcomers on duty at services to give you one. Criteria for inclusion are explained on the back of the forms.

If you attend either of our churches regularly, please do put yourself on the Electoral Roll. Keeping track of our numbers of church members is really helpful in all our dealings with the Diocese of Hereford, such as agreeing the amount we pay for our Parish Offer and the support for our activities we can request from them. In addition, you have to be on the Electoral Roll in order to vote in the elections for our Church Wardens, Parish Church Council and Deanery Synod members, which take place at our Annual Parochial Church Meeting – this year’s will be held on Wednesday 14 May, at 7.30 pm in St Andrew’s (with drinks beforehand from 7 pm).

Admission to the new Electoral Roll closes on Friday 25 April, ready for publication on Sunday 27 April.

Please put completed forms in the envelope to be found in church, give them to one of our welcomers at a service, or return them directly to:

Clare Stevens, The Vine, 7 St David’s Street, Presteigne, LD8 2BP

(letterbox in green door/gate on the corner of St David’s Street / Church Street)

Feel free to email her with any questions: [email protected]