Ynglŷn â WriteToThem
WriteToThem makes it easy for anyone to contact their representatives, even if they don’t know who they are, or who is responsible for what.
We help you navigate, understand, and contact the people who represent you, from local councillors to MPs. We also provide information about how to get involved in campaigns, and how to make sure your voice is heard.
Our history
The first version of WriteToThem was built in 2004, by a group of volunteers who thought that it should be easier for people to contact their MPs. Does that seem like a long time ago? It’ll seem even longer when you find out that it was, at that point, called FaxYourMP.com.
That group of volunteers later grew into mySociety, the project of a registered charity.
mySociety’s mission is to build internet projects which give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives.
Our first project was to take FaxYourMP and rebuild it so that it was bigger and better. As email became more widespread, we adapted the site to work almost entirely by email.
We’ve kept working ever since, adding more types of representative and improving the design. But at its core, WriteToThem has the same mission as its predecessor, FaxYourMP: to lower the barrier to taking the first step and writing to the people in power about the issues that matter to you.
Funding
We had funding for the initial work from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister’s e-innovations fund, in partnership with West Sussex County Council. Many thanks to them.
In 2025–27, we have received funding from the Welsh Government’s Democratic Engagement Grant programme.
We also receive assistance from GovEval, who have kindly made available their database of local councillors; and from Mythic Beasts, who host this and other mySociety websites.
Like many mySociety projects, WriteToThem combines the work of paid core developers — who keep going even when everyone else gets bored — with that of volunteers.
Here is a list of people who have helped build, maintain and support FaxYourMP or WriteToThem:
- Owen Blacker
- Mike Bracken
- Matthew Brown
- Frederick Brummer
- James Cronin
- Louise Crow
- Richard George
- Jonathan Hogg
- Cait Hurley
- Manar Hussain
- Malcolm Hutty
- Francis Irving
- Chris Lightfoot
- Tom Loosemore
- Stefan Magdalinski
- Adam McGreggor
- Craig Nicol
- Danny O'Brien
- Anna Powell Smith
- Sam Smith
- Alaric Snell-Pym
- Matthew Somerville
- Tom Steinberg
- Stuart Tily
- Sam Urquhart
- Matt Zandstra