Write to your representatives

Writing to your elected representatives.

On this page you will find template and blank letters for writing to your MPs (UK-wide, English and English & Welsh policies), MSs (Welsh devolved policies), MLAs (Northern Irish devolved policies) and MSPs (Scottish devolved policies). Each letter has advice on personalising your response.

The more specific detail and experience you can provide, the greater the impact is likely to be. It's important to let representatives know that their constituents care about these issues. Once you've sent you letter (in accordance with our privacy policy) you'll receive a confirmation email on how best to follow up.

Write to your MP (blank template)

A letter to your MP can be an opportunity to lobby them on secular issues or get support with an issue you are facing e.g. being forced into a faith school or discrimination because of your religion or belief.

MPs are very busy, you should keep your letter short and focused. Remember to be polite.
MPs are more likely to take seriously issues they think affect lots of their constituents.
Be clear about what you want your MP to do (support your campaign, raise your case with/write to an appropriate organisation, ask a question in Parliament, support legislation etc.)
If you have time, research your MP. Think about how best to frame your issue/argument for them.
Don't be discouraged if you get a formulaic or dismissive response. Given how many letters MPs get, this is to be expected. A follow up letter will have more impact as MPs get less of these and they are likely to get a more personal reply.
Offer to follow up/send more information.

Letters to MPs

Select a letter to find out more about the issue and then enter your post code to create and send a signed version to your local member of parliament.

Tell your MP its time to separate church and state.

Disestablish the Church of England

Tell your MP its time to scrap the 'chancel tax'

Abolish Chancel Repair Liability

Tell your MP its time to protect all children, regardless of sex, from non-consensual, non-therapeutic genital cutting.

Protect boys from forced circumcision

Tell your MP that it's time for better legal protections against caste-based discrimination.

Outlaw caste discrimination

Faith based inspections of state schools are an unnecessary drain on public finds, frame widely held values as exclusive and promote biased religious education.

Religiosity inspections

Academisation has enabled faith groups to increase their influence over all schools, including those with no religious character. Share our new report with your MP.

Academisation

Britain's growing religious diversity and emerging non-religious majority. Call for changes to the way religion is privileged in public policy.

The manifesto for change

Tell your MP why you oppose faith schools and ask them to support secular inclusive education.

No More Faith Schools

Tell your MP that LGBT issues shouldn't be marginalised by religious concerns.

Protect LGBT-inclusive education

End religious exemptions in equality law

Please ask your MP to urge Rehman Chishti and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office to assist in securing the safe release of Mubarak Bala.

Free Mubarak Bala

Prayers are personal and shouldn’t be an official part of government business or imposed in meetings. Please urge your MP to support our campaign to end parliamentary prayers, to make parliament welcoming to people of all faiths and none.

End Parliamentary Prayers

Religious academies, free schools and voluntary aided schools are able to discriminate against pupils whose families do not share the faith of the school. The government plans to open more discriminatory faith schools. It's time to end, not extend, religious discrimination.

End discrimination in faith school admissions

Ask you MP to oppose the law requiring acts of collective worship in all state schools.

End compulsory worship in schools

Tell your MP why the Bishops shouldn't have automatic seats in Parliament.

Bishops in the Lords

End the religious exemption that allows animals to be slaughtered without pre-stunning.

Non-stun religious slaughter

Share our report - For the public benefit? - with your MP to let them know why 'the advancement of religion' should be removed as a charitable purpose.

Removing 'the advancement of religion' as a charitable purpose

Share our latest research on families with no choice but a faith school or locked out of local schools by religious discrimination.

The choice delusion: how faith schools restrict choice

Support our campaign to ensure every pupil has the same entitlement to high quality, non-partisan education about religious and non-religious worldviews.

Reform religious education

Letters to MLAs (Northern Ireland)

Select a letter to find out more about the issue and then enter your post code to create and send a signed version to your local Norther Ireland Members of the Legislative Assembly.

Tell your MLA why Northern Ireland should join England, Wales, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland in repealing its archaic and illiberal blasphemy laws.

Repeal blasphemy laws in NI

Tell your MLAs why you oppose faith schools and ask them to support secular inclusive education.

No More Faith Schools (Northern Ireland - MLA)

A blank letter you can use to write to your MLAs to lobby them on secular issues.

General letter

Tell your MLA that RSE should be inclusive and comprehensive, not restricted by religious concerns.

Protect RSE

Ask you MLA to oppose the law requiring acts of collective worship in all state schools.

End compulsory worship in schools

Letters to MSPs (Scotland)

Select a letter to find out more about the issue and then enter your post code to create and send a signed version to your Members of the Scottish Parliament.

Scottish law requires education committees to include three religious appointees.

Letters to MSs (Wales)

Select a letter to find out more about the issue and then enter your post code to create and send a signed version to your local Members of the Senedd.

Faith based inspections of state schools are an unnecessary drain on public finds, frame widely held values as exclusive and promote biased religious education.