I will simply cut and paste Mark Goodacre's post which I fully endorse:
I should add that the Facebook group has a lot of helpful detail for when you compose your letters.Lloyd Pietersen and the University of Gloucestershire: Action needed
...now another British university department is similarly under threat from the university's own administration, and one of our good friends has heard today that his post has been terminated.
Lloyd Pietersen is Senior Lecturer and Research Coordinator in New Testament Studies in the Department of Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire. For those who do don't know him, Lloyd is a first class scholar, a fine teacher, and a delightful person, a massive asset to the university. It is unthinkable that they would let someone like Lloyd go.
So what can we do? To begin with, we can pull out all the stops and inundate both Paul Bowler (pbowler@glos.ac.uk) and Patricia Broadfoot (vc@glos.ac.uk) with notice of the damage to research and the university's reputation.