APCM 2025 - Annual Meeting
Documents for the Parish Meeting and the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM)
on Thursday 22nd May 2025
Hormead C of E First School, 7pm.
NOTICE OF 2025 Annual Parish Meeting and APCM HERE
Links to documents for reading in advance of the meeting will be provided below.
In
this United Benefice, all four Parochial Church Councils (PCCs) - the
governing bodies of each ecclesiastical parish - meet for a single
Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM).
The meeting comprises three parts, The Parish Meeting to elect Wardens, The APCM for each PCC and the first PCC meeting of the newly elected bodies to appoint the officers.
Wardens can be elected at The Parish Meeting by resident members of the parish on the Voting Register of the Civil Parish, and those on the Electoral Roll of the Warden's church.
Voting at the APCM is for members of the church Electoral Roll only.
PLEASE NOTE. FOR 2025 the Electoral Roll is being renewed from scratch, as happens every six years. The Deadline to reapply or join the NEW Electoral Roll agead of the meeting in order to vote is 4th May 2025. ALL EXISTING ROLL MEMBERS MUST REAPPLY.
NEW Eectoral Roll for 2025 APPLICATION FORM HERE
If anyone misses the deadline they cannot vote at the APCM or stand for election this year, but they can rejoin the Electoral Roll after the meeting. NOTICE OF NEW ROLL HERE
Having elected Wardens, church members meet to elect PCC members and other representatives. The members recieve the reports of their PCCs and the come together to receive the Diocesan Synod and Rector's report, share ideas and discuss the business of the benefice.
APCM's are held between Christmas and 31st May.
THE AGENDA will be been uploaded to the 'Other Documents' folder soon.
Links to various reports from each of the churches will also be available soon.
Forms for those proposing to stand for election as wardens and in other roles are available from the diocesan website HERE
SAFEGUARDING TRAINING and DBS CHECKS
Please note that all persons elected for roles in our churches are conditional upon them completing the necessary safeguarding training and DBS checks.
Contact
The Vicarage
Great Hormead
Buntingford
Hertfordshire
SG9 0NT
01763 289258