Email Your MP – Make Your Voice Heard
MPs pay attention when they hear directly from the people they represent.
A short, personal email from workers, businesses and supporters can help highlight the growing job losses and uncertainty facing the retrofit sector across the UK.
Use this page to find your MP, personalise your message and help protect the skilled workforce delivering home energy upgrades.
Why contacting your MP matters
The government has promised 240,000 green jobs by 2030, yet thousands of workers in the retrofit sector have already lost their jobs, with many more at risk.
Small and medium-sized businesses that previously delivered home energy upgrades are increasingly being excluded from major delivery frameworks, meaning local companies are losing access to local work.
The UK risks losing the skilled workforce needed to upgrade homes, reduce energy bills and tackle fuel poverty.
Email template
It takes just 2 minutes to copy, personalise and send this email — and it could make a real difference for jobs in your area.
Subject: Urgent: Retrofit Job Losses Affecting Workers & Businesses in [Your Constituency]
Dear [MP Name],
As your constituent in [Postcode/Constituency], I am writing to raise a serious concern affecting skilled workers and small businesses right here in our area.
The UK government has pledged to create 240,000 green jobs by 2030, yet across the country thousands of skilled retrofit workers have already lost their jobs and many more are at risk. At the same time, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that previously delivered home energy upgrades are increasingly being excluded from major delivery frameworks, meaning local companies are losing access to work in the communities they previously served.
This is already having a real impact in our area. Since late 2025, many companies across the retrofit sector have been forced to reduce staff as work has slowed and projects have been cancelled or delayed. In my company / workplace, we have already had to let go of [insert number] staff members, and if the situation does not improve in the coming months we may be forced to [make further redundancies / lose up to another X jobs / close the business]. We are also seeing projects cancelled or delayed, and local households missing out on the upgrades they were expecting. Improving the energy efficiency of homes is one of the most effective ways to protect households from rising energy costs and reduce the UK's exposure to volatile global energy markets.
Recent retrofit programmes delivered around £2–3 billion per year upgrading homes for low-income households. Under the Warm Homes Plan, direct fuel-poverty funding is expected to fall significantly (to around £880 million per year), despite ambitions to upgrade more homes and reduce energy bills. Many in the sector are concerned that this reduction in funding will make it extremely difficult to maintain the workforce needed to deliver these upgrades.
Excluding local SMEs and losing this skilled workforce will make it significantly harder for the UK to upgrade homes at scale, reduce energy bills and tackle fuel poverty. Once these workers and businesses are gone, it will be extremely difficult and costly to rebuild this capacity.
The retrofit sector has also experienced decades of stop-start government programmes. This instability makes it extremely difficult for businesses to invest in training and employment, as companies fear that schemes may disappear before the workforce can be sustained. Without long-term policy stability, businesses will be reluctant to invest in the thousands of additional workers needed to meet the Government’s ambition of creating 240,000 green jobs.
I would be grateful if you could raise this issue in Parliament and with the relevant ministers, and support the Save Green Jobs campaign (SaveGreenJobs.co.uk). I would also encourage you to consider signing the campaign’s open letter, which calls for action to protect retrofit jobs and ensure small and medium-sized businesses remain part of home energy upgrade delivery programmes.
I would welcome a reply on what steps you can take to support affected workers and businesses in our constituency.
Thank you for taking the time to represent the concerns of your constituents on this important issue.
Yours sincerely,
[Your Name]
[Your Address]
[Your Postcode]
[Company / Job Role]
[Your Contact Details – optional]