Non-party campaigners: UK Parliamentary general elections

You can submit a notification online using PEF Online. Alternatively, you can complete Form TP1 and send a signed copy of the form to us by email or post.

When we receive your notification, we will check that you are eligible to submit a notification, that all the necessary information is provided and confirm in writing when your notification is in force. In some cases, we may ask you to provide further information before we can process your notification.

As your notification must be in force before you spend more than £10,000 on regulated campaign activity during the regulated period, and to allow for time for the notification to be processed, you should wait until we confirm that your notification is in force before spending over this amount.

What information do you need to provide?

If you are making a notification as an individual, you must provide your name and home address.1

If you are making a notification as a body incorporated by Royal Charter, a UK charitable incorporated organisation or a Scottish partnership which carries on business in the UK, you must provide:

• the name of the organisation and the address of its main office2
• the name of the ‘responsible person’3
• the organisation’s ‘relevant details’4
• the authorisation of the organisation’s secretary (or an individual acting in a similar capacity)5

For other organisations eligible to make a notification, you must provide:

• the name of the organisation and the address of its registered or main office6
• the name of the ‘responsible person’7
• details of the organisation’s ‘relevant participators’8
• the authorisation of the organisation’s secretary (or an individual acting in a similar capacity)9

A person acting in a similar capacity to an organisation’s secretary will have overall responsibility for the organisation’s administrative affairs.

Please see the next pages for information about the responsible person, their responsibilities, and the relevant details and participators.

These details, except for an individual’s home address, will be included on your entry on the register of non-party campaigners.

We will not publish any personal information, such as home addresses, email addresses or phone numbers provided in your notification. 

As part of your notification, you will also be asked to provide information or evidence that you meet the requirements to be added to the register of non-party campaigners under your chosen category. For example, if you are submitting a notification as a company, you will be asked to provide your company registration number and evidence that you are carrying on business in the UK.

Reporting threshold declaration

There are different spending, donation and reporting obligations for registered non-party campaigners depending on the declaration made in the notification.

As part of the changes introduced under the Elections Act 2022, when you submit a notification, you can declare that you intend to remain below the UKPGE reporting thresholds. These thresholds are spending more than £20,000 in England or £10,000 in any of Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

If you make this declaration, and your spending remains below the reporting thresholds, you must still comply with the laws around the permissibility of donations but will be exempt from reporting obligations.

Please see Reporting thresholds for more information.