Writing to and lobbying political representatives is much less intimidating than it sounds. Most of them want to hear your views and will do their best to respond to you.

To give you a head start, we've put together some template letters and guides to go with the different campaigns.

The Big Dress campaign on corporate accountability

Summer 08 actions:

• A letter to send to your MEP about corporate accountability.

• Letter to the Prime Minister, asking him to promote corporate accountability at a European Level.

• Big Dress MEP lobby brief

• MEP template letter

Arms trade campaign

• Burma arms MEP template letter