mySociety

25/08/2026

If you're organised, efficient, sensitive to nuance and have experience in providing excellent user support, come and join the mySociety team!

Find more details and apply at https://apply.workable.com/mysociety/j/1EA6399DA9

06/08/2026

⏰️ Nagging feeling there's something you should be doing? Maybe there is! Applications close TOMORROW for our Service Manager vacancy:

mySociety is a small, purposeful charity which creates and runs digital services that break down barriers to democratic participation, equipping people to take action and drive meaningful change. We’re looking for a Digital Service Manager who has expe...

05/08/2026

Lots of campaigns and causes send their supporters to WriteToThem, so they can contact their MP or other relevant politicians - all within our guardrails for responsible usage.

Now we've made some improvements to this free service - take a look and see if your organisation could find it useful.

Our website WriteToThem helps you contact your elected representatives, quickly and simply. In a recent blog post, we explained that we've added a Welsh translation across the site, and made it easier to navigate recent changes to the Senedd. And while those improvements clearly have a great bene

04/08/2026

Have you set up your Burnham email alert yet? Here's how (and why):

With all the fuss about Andy Burnham becoming Prime Minister, it may be easy to forget that he’s been in Parliament before — as an MP. That means that he already had a page on TheyWorkForYou, our website that makes Parliament easier to follow. And, as Burnham originally entered the House in 2001

03/08/2026

It can be hard to know which of your elected representatives to contact, especially where you have more than one council, or perhaps live in an area with a devolved parliament.

Improvements to WriteToThem make it easier to get your message to the right place - here's what we've done:

Our website WriteToThem helps you contact your elected representatives, quickly and simply. In a recent blog post, we explained that we've added a Welsh translation across the site, and made it easier to navigate recent changes to the Senedd. And while those improvements clearly have a great bene

03/08/2026

If you've been using AI to make requests, stop - and read this.
bsky.social has some important advice which will benefit both you, and the authority you're requesting from.

https://www.mysociety.org/2026/07/21/new-ico-guidance-using-ai-when-making-an-foi-request/

The effects of AI are making themselves known across every sector, and Freedom of Information is no exception. AI has lowered the bar to making contact, in every place where citizens interact with public authorities, from making pothole reports to submitting FOI requests. On the face of it,

31/07/2026

Missed our webinar on the changes in Welsh democracy, and the updates we've made on our "contact a politician" website WriteToThem to reflect that?

No worries; you can watch it again at any time: https://www.mysociety.org/2026/07/23/getting-the-right-message-to-the-right-place-navigating-changes-in-welsh-democracy/

The democratic landscape in Wales has changed... and so has our 'contact your politician' website WriteToThem. In a webinar today, we invited Jess Blair from ERS Cymru to talk through how the Senedd looks, how the power balance has shifted and how that affects those living in Wales. Now that e

30/07/2026

Governmental use of AI systems is growing at a speedy pace, but In many cases we still do not have enough basic information about it - what's being used and how is it affecting people's lives? We gathered experts to discuss the solutions.

We think it should be easier to reliably answer the basic questions: what AI systems are public bodies using? How are those systems affecting people?

30/07/2026

Public opinion does make a difference. We talked to the ICO and found out how they've improved transparency around sewage spills - it started with increased complaints about water companies:

The EIR is a similar set of rights to those we have under Freedom of Information, but specifically give access to environmental information held by public authorities. Those who remember reading about the sewagemaps project in our blog post of last April will recall that the discharge of sewage f

28/07/2026

Gemma, Zarino, Alex, Julia and Alice present mySociety's latest impact report.

There's a lot to be hopeful about! Find the full report at https://www.mysociety.org/impact-report-2026/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=impactreport-staff-video