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Electoral Roll 2025

Every five years we are required to create a completely new Electoral roll before the Annual Parochial Church Meeting.  Forms are available to download here or you can collect a form from church.  Please make sure to return your form in time to be included.

Please make sure you tick the GDPR box on the back so we can keep in touch with you.

If you have any queries please contact your electoral roll officer.

Sophie Hill sophiedianahill@gmail.com  / 01342 810282

What is the electoral roll and why should I  join?
The electoral roll is open to all those aged 16 and over who have been baptised  in the Church of England and who consider the church in question their spiritual home. It gives you a vote at the Annual Parocchial Church Meeting where you can have your say on how your church is run and it allows you to stand for the PCC.
It’s not compulsory for regular worshippers to be on the roll and membership doesn’t confer any obligation, however the size of the PCC and our number of Deanery Synod representatives are decided by how many worshippers are on the electoral roll. 

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Thank you to the CWP team – and the next CWP is 17th August.

Thank you all for helping clear the squadrons of brambles and weeds yesterday morning. We achieved huge progress on the northern and southern boundaries and in the flower bed alongside the road . We have rediscovered the hidden oil tank also!

Monica, thank you for bringing us at almost zero notice , coffee and hob nobs.

There is more to do before the autumn in the south western corner , around the flower beds , around overgrown graves as well as having a bonfire .

It would be a huge help if you could lend some time on Saturday 17th August at 10am for 2 hours .

 

 

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Moth and Bat evening 2024

Thank you to those who contributed to our bat and moth evening. We enjoyed our picnics on the grass outside church as dusk fell, being entertained by our musicians singing from the church porch before hearing brief but informative talks from Paul and Gary on the habits of moths and bats.

The moths were prolific. When the traps were closed at 3.30am they were fairly humming with moths, with 51 species identified including the wonderfully named ‘Snout’ and ‘True Lover’s Knot’ moths! The bats were shy, with one solitary Pipistrelle putting in a brief appearance. Although a dry evening, except for dew, it was too cold for bats but okay for humans (just!) and there were no midges. You can’t have it all!

Here’s the full list of moth species identified the next day.

Gold W
Brown House Moth
Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix
Yellow Oak Tortrix
Common Marble
Garden Grass-moth
White-banded Grass-moth
Common Grey
Tawny Grey
Pied Grey
Small Magpie
Buff Arches
Riband Wave
Barred Straw
Pine Carpet
July Highflyer
Clouded Border
Brimstone Moth
Early Thorn
Swallow-tailed Moth
Willow Beauty
Mottled Beauty
Privet Hawk-moth
Poplar Hawk-moth
Buff-tip
Black Arches
Common Footman
Buff Ermine
Heart and Dart
Large Yellow Underwing
True Lover’s Knot
Purple Clay
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Bright-line Brown-eye
Delicate
Smoky Wainscot
Common Wainscot
Minor Shoulder-knot
Poplar Grey
Sycamore
Dark Arches
Marbled sp
Rufous Minor
Uncertain
Rustic
Mottled Rustic
Silver Y
Dark Spectacle
Spectacle
Snout
Fan-foot
Cnephasia sp (no vernacular name given).
And the scientific names…
Argyresthia brockeella
Hofmannophila pseudospretella
Pandemis heparana
Cnephasia sp
Aleimma loeflingiana
Celypha lacunana
Chrysoteuchia culmella
Crambus pascuella
Scoparia ambigualis
Eudonia lacustrata
Eudonia delunella
Eurrhypara hortulata
Habrosyne pyritoides
Idaea aversata
Eulithis pyraliata
Thera firmata
Hydriomena furcata
Lomaspilis marginata
Opisthograptis luteolata
Selenia dentaria
Ourapteryx sambucaria
Peribatodes rhomboidaria
Alcis repandata
Sphinx ligustri
Laothoe populi
Phalera bucephala
Lymantria monacha
Eilema lurideola
Spilosoma luteum
Agrotis exclamationis
Noctua pronuba
Lycophotia porphyrea
Diarsia brunnea
Xestia c-nigrum
Lacanobia oleracea
Mythimna vitellina
Mythimna impura
Mythimna pallens
Brachylomia viminalis
Acronicta megacephala
Acronicta aceris
Apamea monoglypha
Oligia sp
Oligia versicolor
Hoplodrina alsines
Hoplodrina blanda
Caradrina morpheus
Autographa gamma
Abrostola triplasia
Abrostola tripartita
Hypena proboscidalis
Zanclognatha tarsipennalis