How to contact your politician

You are the expert in your experience and your story is powerful. By telling your politician about your experience, you can help us raise awareness of early diagnosis and campaign for change.

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You can e-mail, post a letter, phone, or tweet your politician.

However you choose to get in touch, there are a few common tips to keep in mind.

Introduce yourself – make sure you let them know you are their constituent and how they can contact you. A good way of doing this is to include your address or postcode at the end of your letter.
Be clear and succinct – you will only have a few minutes to get your point across so try to stick to one issue at a time and make sure you have a clear ask. Not sure where to start? You can use our letter template here.
Follow up – say thank you or prompt them for a response. Let us know what they say by writing to us at policy@crohnsandcolitis.org.uk

Ask your politician to back our campaign

To help them understand the importance of early diagnosis you can share your story and our policy brief. You could also ask your politician to:

Pledge their support to our campaign.

Meet you alongside Crohn’s & Colitis UK. This gives us an opportunity to discuss the matter in more detail and share evidence to help them make the case for change.

Write to their local health leaders and share our policy brief. This letter template will help them find the right words.

Raise a parliamentary question – these can either be written or oral and let the Government know that people care about improving diagnosis for people with Crohn’s and Colitis and want them to do more. You can find some recommended questions here.