We'reasking current and prospective MPs to sign up to the social enterprise charterto help raise their awareness of the work that social enterprises around the UKare doing. 

However,we cannot do this alone, so we've put together a campaign pack to help you toget your local parliamentary candidates to sign the charter.   

We hopethat this will help you to make your local candidates aware of the contributionyour social enterprise is making in your community, and that together we canbuild nationwide support for social enterprise.

To helpyou to get in touch with your MP, we've put together some tips on working withpoliticians as well as template letters to MPs asking them to sign the charterand inviting them to visit your social enterprise.

• Tips for working with your MP
• Template email to ask your local candidates to sign the charter
• Template letters to ask your local candidates to sign the social enterprise charter and visit your social enterprise

Targetingyour local media can also be an effective way to introduce social enterprise toa new audience, highlight the contribution your social enterprise makes to thelocal community, and spur your candidates on to sign the charter.

To helpyou with this, we've put together a template letter for you to send to newspapereditors and a draft press release for you to use, as well as tips on how to getthe local media coverage of events at your social enterprise.

• Tips on getting media coverage
• Template letter about the campaign to your local newspaper