Help us stop big business cashing in on aid

Over the past decade, the UK government has increasingly put the interests of big business at the heart of its aid policy. The result is that the power structures that keep people in poverty are now even stronger.

While aid is vital (and the government must not go back on its commitments to
fund it) to be really effective it must be used to bring about social justice and
equity for the poorest people.

Aid is not, and should never be, a business opportunity.

An independent parliamentary inquiry into this worrying trend is urgently needed - should the Kelvin coal power plant in South Africa (pictured right) really be benefiting from UK aid funding, for example?

Please write to your MP now and help us stop big business cashing in on aid.

And everyone who takes action will be able to watch our staff and volunteers in their own rendition of a famous Bob Geldof song.

If your MP is on the list below, it's because they're on the International Development Select Committee so we've drafted a slightly different email for them - please click on their name and you'll be taken to a page where you can send them a message.

If your MP's not on the list, or you don't know who your MP is, please enter your postcode in the box below and click "Find your MP" and then you'll be able to send your MP a message.

Sir Malcolm Bruce MP - Gordon
Hugh Bayley MP - York Central
Richard Burden MP - Birmingham Northfield
Sam Gyimah MP - East Surrey
Richard Harrington MP - Watford
Pauline Latham MP - Mid Derbyshire
Jeremy Lefroy MP - Stafford
Michael McCann MP - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
Alison McGovern MP - Wirral South
Fiona O'Donnell MP - East Lothian
Chris White MP - Warwick & Leamington