Sign up as a Supporter of the Equal Campaign – The Campaign For Equal Marriage in the Church of England

This page enables you to sign up as a Supporter of the Campaign for Equal Marriage in the Church of England. You can sign up as an individual or on behalf of an organization, or both. Anyone can sign up – see this FAQ.

What information do I have to give?

If you’re signing up as an individual, the only information we need is your your full name and email address. We need to know your email address so that your signature can be verified.

If you’re signing up as an organization, the name of the organization is also required, together with its contact details so we can check they have agreed to sign up.

Required fields are marked with a red asterisk (*).

Optional extra information

At the end of the signup form is a checkbox labelled ‘Provide more information?‘, which is displayed if you have chosen to support us as an individual. We invite you to check this box and provide various other information about yourself, in the new fields that will appear.

This is entirely optional, but it will be very helpful to us as we progress the Campaign, and we hope you will feel able to provide at least some of this extra information, which will of course be held in strictest confidence.

What's displayed?

Unless you choose to allow it, by checking the ‘Public display?’ checkbox, nothing will be publicly displayed. You have the option to support us silently or publicly, as you choose.

If you do check the ‘Public display?’ checkbox, the information in the fields that have a wide green left border will be displayed publicly in the List of Supporters on this website.

Other information, including your email address, will never be displayed publicly or shared with anyone else.

All information displayed publicly on this website (in the List of Supporters) will be in the public domain, and we have no control over how it may be used by others.

Errors and mistakes

If what you type in a field is invalid – for example, if a required field is left empty, or you provide an invalid email address (such as david’gmail.com) – submitting the form will fail. The problem field(s) will be highlighted with a red border and and an error message or messages will be displayed above the table. Correct the error(s) and try again to submit the form.

Most mistakes aren’t particularly important, but if you mistype your email address (e.g. laura@yahooo.com, with an extra ‘o’) the acknowledgement email sent on submission will never reach you; it will bounce back or go to the wrong person. Therefore you won’t receive your Private Link and won’t be able to click it to verify your signup – and the reminder facility won’t work either. This is why we ask people to check their email address carefully.

Title	Choose your title from the list, or if it's not there please choose 'other' (at the end of the list) and then enter your title in the text box that appears.
First Name*	The given name or personal name by which you prefer to be called
Last Name*	Your surname or family name
Letters after your name	For example, religious orders (e.g. OHP), honours (e.g. MBE) and the like, but not degrees or other academic qualifications unless relevant to the Campaign. Please do NOT repeat your name here!
Email*	Please check your email address carefully, as a mistake will prevent your signature from being validated. You must be able to receive email at this address.
Signing as an …*	Signing as an … individual organization Please select either checkbox or both checkboxes as appropriate.
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Organization	If you are signing up as a Supporter on behalf of an organization (e.g. a church), please give its full name here.
Organization website	Please enter the organization's website address (URL) to enable users to find out about it.
Organization contact email	If you are signing up as a Supporter on behalf of an organization (e.g. a church), please give the contact email address of an office-holder (e.g. Secretary) so we can ask them to confirm that the signup has been authorized. The address will only be used for this purpose. The organization will not be listed until we have had a positive reply.
Organization signup date	If you know it, please choose the date when the organization formally decided to become a Supporter; otherwise put today's date.
Organization verified	For admin use only Please check this box only after you have contacted the organization and confirmed that it does officially support the Campaign.
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Free badges (UK only)	Check this box if you would like to receive a free set of the Campaign's two lapel badges. You will need to supply your postal address in the field that appears. We will despatch the badges as soon as possible, subject to availability. NB Sorry – this offer is open only to those living in the UK.
Postal address for badges	If you have opted to receive the free badges, please enter your full postal address here, including postcode. Without that, we cannot send them. Your address will only be used for this purpose.
Date badges sent	For admin use only
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Public display?	Check this box if you are happy for your name (and organization if applicable) and the date when you signed up as a Supporter to be displayed publicly on this website as a Supporter of the Campaign. This is optional, as we understand that not everyone is able to support us publicly. Your email address will never be displayed.
Help Offered?	If you would like to help us, please check this box and enter what kinds of help you might be able to offer in the 'Help Details' field that appears. Thank you! Alas, we won't be able to acknowledge each offer of help individually, but we will be in touch as and when we need to.
Help Details	Please enter what kinds of help you might be able to offer us.
CAPTCHA*	6 − 5 = ? To verify that you're human, please enter the correct answer.
I support the Campaign and its aims*	By checking this box you are signing up as a Supporter to the Campaign for Equal Marriage in the Church of England and affirm that you fully support the Campaign and agree with our aims as stated in this website; you also agree to allow the storage and use of this personal information for the purposes specified in our Privacy Policy and to allow the Campaign to send you emails about the Campaign and related topics.
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Provide more information?	All the questions that appear if you check this box are entirely optional. If you don't want to answer any of them, that's fine – just skip over those ones. But we hope you will answer at least some, as this information will be helpful to us in planning the Campaign. None of your answers will be publicly visible or shared with anyone other than the Campaign team.
Sexual orientation	Sexual orientation Lesbian Gay Bisexual Straight Asexual Unsure Other: Please select the option that fits you best. If you choose 'Other' you can enter your preferred description.
Gender identity	Gender identity Female Non-binary Gender fluid/queer Male Other: Please choose your preferred description of your gender identity. If you choose 'Other' you can enter your description.
Gender identity and sex	Please check this box if your gender identity is the same as your sex assigned at birth.
Religious belief (if any)	Religious belief (if any) Christian Jewish Muslim Buddhist Sikh Hindu Atheist Agnostic None Other: Please select your current form of belief or unbelief. If appropriate you can also select a second option (e.g. Christian and Buddhist). If you choose 'Other' you can enter your form of belief.
Branch(es) of Christian Church	Branch(es) of Christian Church Anglican Catholic Orthodox Protestant/Reformed Quaker Other: Please select the branch of the Church with which you currently identify. If you choose 'Other' you can enter your own branch. If appropriate you can also select a second option (e.g. Anglican and Quaker). 'Anglican' means any church in the Anglican Communion, including the Church of England. 'Orthodox' means the Eastern Orthodox churches (Russian, Greek, Coptic etc). 'Protestant/Reformed' includes Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Baptist and the like.
Church within the Anglican Communion	Please choose the Church that you belong to within the Anglican Communion.
Ministry	Ministry Lay member Licensed Lay Minister (Reader) Ordinand Deacon Priest Bishop Please choose the most appropriate option. If you are a lay person on the electoral roll of your church, choose 'Lay member'.
Diocese	Please choose the diocese in which you minister or worship, even if you live elsewhere.
Parish or Church	Please enter your parish, and the name of your church if there is more than one in the parish.
Synod membership	Synod membership Deanery Synod Diocesan Synod General Synod Please select all that apply.

What next?

After you’ve submitted this form, you will be taken to a personalized ‘Thank you’ page, so you know it’s worked. You can just close the ‘Thank you’ page. But you’re not quite finished yet!

Next you need to check your email – the address you used to sign up. You should have received an email with the subject ‘Thank you for signing up as a Supporter of the Equal Campaign’. Emails don’t always arrive instantly, so you may need to check again later, or see if it’s gone into your spam/junk folder.

Please read the email and – the vital thing – click the Private Link that it contains. This automatically marks your signup as verified. Until you do that, your signature won’t count – you won’t be a verified Supporter until you’ve clicked that link.