Our Annual Parochial Church Council Meeting takes place on Thursday, April 25th and it is the time of year that we must review our church ELECTORAL ROLL - this helps the church show its strength and the number on our electoral roll affects our representation on the Deanery Synod so it's great to sign up.

You can check if you are already signed up by viewing the print out of the roll in the church porch, or contacting Jane St Aubyn ([email protected] or 01483 200213). She can email you or post a copy of the required form.

Signing up to the Electoral Roll is an important way of confirming your commitment to St Mary and All Saints’ Church and comes without additional obligations.

The only qualifications required are: you are resident in the parish, a communicant member of the Church of England and are 16 or over, you can legally go on the roll (unless you are ordained).

In addition, those who live outside the Parish can be on the electoral roll but you have to have been worshipping at St Mary and All Saints’ Church Dunsfold for a minimum period of 6 months. If you are on the Electoral Roll you enjoy all the rights and privileges that go with being resident in the parish (for example, baptisms and weddings).

The Electoral Roll is the parish church’s register of electors. In the same way that being on the civic Electoral Roll allows you to vote in parliamentary and local elections and referenda, joining the Church Electoral Roll means that, if you wish, you can vote on Church matters, attend the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) and stand for election to the PCC.