If non-party campaigners work together as part of a joint campaign without a lead campaigner, we call that an ‘ordinary joint campaign’.
If you are a non-party campaigner in an ordinary joint campaign, you must record the combined regulated spending on the joint campaign as it will count towards the spending limits for each non-party campaigner involved, including yourself.
If you want to spend more than £10,000 on regulated campaign activity across the UK, including joint campaigning, you must register with the Electoral Commission.
If you do not register, you cannot spend more than more than £10,000 during a regulated period on regulated campaign activity, including joint campaign spending by your joint campaign partners.
If you are a registered non-party campaigner involved in a joint campaign, you must report your own spending on the joint campaign. You do not have to report the spending by your joint campaign partners, but that spending does count towards your regulated spending total. You should report a total of what your partners spent on the joint campaign.
For example, you and another non-party campaigner each agree to spend £8,000 on an ordinary joint campaign in Wales. The total spending for the joint campaign is therefore £16,000.
Both of you must count £16,000 towards your regulated spending total.
Since this total is over £10,000, you and the other campaigner must register with the Commission before spending over this amount.
Each campaigner must report their own spending in their spending return. They should also report a total of their joint campaign partner’s spend.