GRO certificates petition

Dear Colleagues,

As you may be aware, the costs of GRO certificates will rise from £7 to

£9.25 on the 6th April. Costs haven't risen for some years but an extra

£2.25 on every certificate. That's a whopping 32% rise. GRO produces 2

million certificates a year, so that's 4.5 million extra profit in one

swoop. 90% of applications are online now, so their work is reduced but we

pay more! They are even scrapping the "checking points", so no more refunds

if its not the correct certificate.

Although protesting will probably fall on deaf ears, if we stay quiet, they

will think they can hike the costs up whenever they want to. At least we can

express how we feel about it. If you agree, please copy and paste the link

below into your browser and sign the e-petition. If not, sorry to have

bothered you.

petitions.number10.gov.uk/grocertificates/.

Chris

History of the villages of

Dorset, Hampshire and Isle of Wight

southernlife.org.uk

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