With the incredible pressures you are currently facing, running your essential businesses at the heart of communities across the UK, we want to ensure that Government are left in no doubt about the impact on you, your business and your customers.

Last year we launched our #notjustapub campaign, where many of you took to social media to tell us about the fantastic things your teams do to support your local communities. This year we want to continue the call for support from Government with the #MyPub campaign, with members inviting their local MPs to visit their pubs throughout the summer, to see the impact that your businesses have at the heart of your communities.

We are constantly engaging with MPs, Ministers and officials in Government, sharing the challenges you are facing, details from our recent surveys and feedback from across our membership, but nothing delivers that message more powerfully than seeing that first hand in your pubs. Many of you have reported that despite trading becoming more positive, you are seeing significantly reduced profits, which impacts on your potential for growth. 

The objective of the #MyPub campaign is to get recognition for your essential businesses, by:

 - Showcasing your fantastic local business to your local MPs, showing your support for local skilled jobs, suppliers and communities
 - Asking them to call on Government for longer term structural support, reducing the amount of tax that pubs pay, with a priority to reduce VAT, and
 - A continuation of the current Business Rates relief for a further 3 years

We have created some social media assets to help you share this message with your local MP's, ensuring they understand why we are asking them to fight for your vital and viable pubs and the support that they will need to survive - please also encourage your teams, customers, friends and families to share why they love #MyPub and why it deserves urgent support.

We have provided a template letter for you, which you can amend with your stories to personalise the huge challenges that you are facing. Please feel free to add or use your own words across all social media platforms, but please remember to include the hashtag #MyPub and tag the BII via the handles below in all posts so we can re-share them.

Twitter - @BIIandBIIAB
Facebook - @BIIandBIIAB
Instagram - @BritishInstituteofInnkeeping
LinkedIn - British Institute of Innkeeping

 

Write to your MP

Support our #MyPub campaign

To contact your MP follow the 3 simple steps below:

1) Download the letter template via the box below - this is a word document that you can copy and paste into your message to your MP (the template may appear in your download bar at the bottom of your screen)
2) Find your local MP - click the link in the blue box below, this will load a webpage where you can type in your postcode to find your local MP. Selecting their name will load a form for you to paste your letter into
3) Paste the letter template into the body, personalising your message if you wish, then fill out your contact information and hit preview and send

Tweet your MP

Support our #MyPub campaign

To Tweet your MP follow the 4 simple steps below

1) Find your local MP's Twitter account - click the link in the box below, this will load a website where you can scroll through to find your MP's Twitter handle, selecting their @handle will load their twitter page. You can then hit the Tweet button, which will automatically tag them in a new tweet.

2) If you would like, you can also use one of our digital assets in your tweet - simply choose the image from the bottom of this webpage that you would like to use. This will load in another webpage and you can save this to your downloads

 3) Write your tweet (remember you can only have 140 characters per post!), making sure you include the hashtag #MyPub and tag @BIIandBIIAB. If you have chosen to include one of our images, you can add this to the tweet by selecting the blue picture icon in your tweet.

Then hit Tweet!

Download Assets

We have made some assets for you to share on social media to help get our message across. To download, click on the image, or right click and select save image. These assets are for Twitter / Facebook / LinkedIn - if you want to share on Instagram please email [email protected] and she will be able to send you across the square assets.