Campaign resources.
Stop Press: Action Pack for the General Election available now!
Mothers At Home Matter members have been sent a printed copy of this pack. Find the digital version here online which includes:
The MAHMifesto
Poster
Question card
Policy card
Your voice matters.
Contacting your MP is easy and the most straight-forward way for busy mums to contact your representative is with a letter. You can find your MP’s contact details via the link below.
We’ve provided a template letter that you can send and you can find your MP’s contact details easily here.
There are also further resources to help inform your letter if you want to personalise it further. These include: our MAHMifesto - the outline of our priorities; previous letters and submissions we have made; and other links which may help you.
Recent Campaigns.
Some families caught in the High Income Child Benefit Charge are in the poorer 60% of the population including households officially in poverty and some who are entitled to Universal Credit while some of the richest families continue to receive it.
Anne Fennell, Chair of Mothers at Home Matter, has written on behalf of mothers to the Chancellor ahead of the March 2024 Budget requesting that mothers be remembered when his team consider tax reductions. Please add your voice by writing your own version to send to Mr Hunt.
In contradiction to the science, the policy of all major political parties seek to encourage and incentivise mothers into the paid workforce — often at the very time when their unique role in nurturing and giving the infant his or her sense of self is at its most critical.
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Template Letter.
Click here for a template letter which you can personalise to send to your MP.
You could follow up with a phone call, book an appointment to meet your MP, or turn up at your MP’s surgery.
Further resources.
The MAHMifesto (2022).
Mothers at Home Matter is the voice for the many mothers who want to be at home to bring up their children yet who are so rarely represented in public debate or in policy circles. This leaflet outlines our aims and campaigns.
Click for the MAHMifesto
Letter to Duchess of Cambridge.
MAHM wrote a joint letter to the Duchess with our sister organisations in Sweden (Haro) and Denmark (HJEM) and a Danish professor for Early Childhood to raise the challenges faced by Danish mothers wishing to be home.
Click here to read the letter
Early Years Commission.
MAHM’s submission to the CSJ and Fabian Early Years Commission, June 2020. We outline the importance of the mother as primary caregiver along with relevant scientific research and how best to support mothers in this choice.
Click here to read our submission to the Commission
Treasury: Member Response.
A member wrote to her MP about the unfairness of the present taxation system. Her MP Meg Hillier forwarded her letter to the Treasury whose reply was dismissive.
MAHM and Tax & The Family helped with drafting a response to this letter, in particular, pointing out the irony that, although the Treasury stated that it could not contemplate taxing families as a unit because ‘This fundamental principle [of independent taxation] provides everyone with absolute confidentiality for their personal tax affairs,’ our member has had penalty fines for a tax charge on child benefit where—for tax purposes—she needed to know the salary of her husband even though she herself received no benefit.
Tax After Coronovirus.
This is our submission to the Treasury Select Committee Inquiry: Tax after Coronavirus.
We addressed the question: ‘Which areas of the tax system are most in need of reform, and which are best left alone?’ Focusing specifically on income tax (which accounts for a quarter of all tax in the UK), our document highlights the pressing need for a fairer family taxation system.
Conservatives Against Choice?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that all mothers in possession of young children must be in want of childcare. However little known the feelings or views of such a mother may be on her first entering motherhood, this truth is so well established that every manifesto pledge on care of young children and every family policy enacted by previous governments and the Treasury is directed to liberating the mother from the burden of caring for her child.
Mini Budget September 2022.
MAHM and Tax & The Family are highly critical of the 23rd September 2022 announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to abolish the 45p rate and advance to the reduction to 19p in the basic rate of tax next year. He has focused the tax reductions on those with higher incomes, while very largely ignoring those who pay income tax even though they are in poverty.
Please see our sample letter to send to your local MP.
Anne Fennell talks to Make Mothers Matter.
Are ‘Stay-At-Home’ mother better than ‘Working’ mothers? Claire Paye joins the discussion with Philip and Holly.
Mothers at Home Matter partner with Home Renaissance Foundation to consider the value of home at the House of Commons.
Vanessa Olorenshaw speaks at the International Women’s Conference, Global Women’s Strike, about the injustice for low paid families and the challenges faced by mothers wanting to be at home to care.