The #MyPub campaign has been successful in connecting many of your pubs with your local MPs to share the powerful impact your businesses have at the heart of your community, share the challenging trading realities for your pubs and gain their backing for the support needed to safeguard your futures.  Thank you to many of you for your support since the launch of the campaign last summer.

Through your work, an extension to the current business rates relief was secured for England, with pubs being singled out yet again for their role in their communities. This was a targeted ask of Government to gain early confirmation of essential ongoing support and was achieved in full for many of your pubs. We are disappointed that the devolved nations have not chosen to apply the relief and will continue to call for support for Scotland and Wales.

As we now head towards a full budget on 6th March 2024, we continue to seek a reduction in the unfair levels of taxation that your pubs are subject to with a priority on reducing VAT.  This has been a key priority from across our members and will clearly be critical as you continue to face escalating costs across your business including the significant rise in the national living wage (NLW) to be implemented from April 2024. The case is clear for a reduction in VAT which will support the ongoing viability of many pubs, prevent unnecessary business failure, encourage further investment in pub teams & businesses and provide an engine of growth within the wider economy.

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 hearing it directly from you as a business in their constituency.

We are now calling on all pubs to write to their MPs, asking for their backing for a continuation for an investment in pubs through lowering taxes with a priority on reducing VAT - We have provided a template letter for you to send to your MP to urgently ask for their support on this. 

We have also 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.

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.