Who to write to?

Who should receive letters and emails? All in a leadership role: business leaders for starters; Contact us if you think there’s anyone else we should add!

  1. Bosses of Marks & Spencer (pride themselves on green credentials – see Plan A 2025: https://corporate.marksandspencer.com/media/press-releases/2017/plan-a-2025)
  2. See FT 100 (Footsie 100) companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTSE_100_Index
  3. Heads of major news and broadcasting organisations: Director General of BBC, Chair of BBC Richard Sharp, editors of Times, Financial Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Sunday Mail, Daily Mirror, The Sun, Sunday Times, Observer, The Guardian (Katharine Viner),
  4. Political leaders at all levels but especially the President of the COP26 UN Climate Conference to be held in Glasgow in November. Alok Sharma is working on this full-time now, based in the Cabinet Office. He said on 8th January: “The biggest challenge of our time is climate change and we need to work together to deliver a cleaner, greener world and build back better for present and future generations.

Through the UK’s Presidency of COP26 we have a unique opportunity, working with friends and partners around the world, to deliver on this goal.”

  1. Other political leaders: PM, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (Kwasi Kwarteng), SoS for Trade (Liz Truss), SoS for Education (Gavin Williamson), SoS for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (George Eustice), SoS for Housing & Local Government (Robert Jenrick), SoS for Transport (Grant Shapps) – https://members.parliament.uk/Government/Cabinet for contact info, click right arrow.
  2. First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon – https://firstminister.gov.scot/
  3. First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford – https://www.markdrakeford.com/en/
  4. First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill – https://www.executiveoffice-ni.gov.uk/
  5. Local council leaders of Central Bedfordshire Council. Key councillors sit on the Executive: https://apps.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/apps/cm/Home/CouncillorRoles?id=2 You can find your local councillor for your ward: https://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/directory/14/your_councillors/category/67 or you can enter their name here: https://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/directory/14/your_councillors
  6. Leighton – Linslade Town Council members: https://www.leightonlinslade-tc.gov.uk/councillors/
  7. Local and national faith leaders: Church of England, Roman Catholic Church, Muslim Council of Britain (https://mcb.org.uk/ ), Methodists, Baptists, Sikhs
  8. Andrew Selous MP – House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA 020 7219 1612 (09:00-17:00) andrew.selous.mp@parliament.uk MP for South Beds.