Speak out

Here are some ways in which you can make your voice heard.

Write to your local MP

Why not write to your MP and ask them their opinion on whether the law should be changed to allow large shops to open on Boxing Day this year? Leave them in no doubt that you would be horrified to see any change in the Sunday trading law  for this purpose.

You can find out who your local MP is here.

Write to your local paper

Writing a letter to the editor of your local paper is a great way to raise awareness in your community. Most people think of Sunday trading only from the point of the consumer's 'right to shop', so why not remind people of the effect longer trading hours has on shopworkers and their families, on the police, security, banking, distribution, transport, health and catering staff who also have to work when shops are open, and on the communities around large shopping stores which already suffer from congestion and noise six and a half days a week . . . .