LGPS Divest

Local Government Pension Scheme funds collectively invest billions in companies complicit in Israel’s grave violations of Palestinian human rights.

Led by scheme members and their representative trade unions, LGPS Divest is campaigning to ensure administering authorities implement adequate investment screening and due diligence procedures to guarantee that scheme members’ money is not used to support Israel’s violations of international law.

LGPS Divest

Local Government Pension Scheme Funds invest billions in companies complicit in Israel’s grave violations of Palestinian human rights.

Led by scheme members and their representative trade unions LGPS Divest is campaigning to ensure administering authorities implement adequate investment screening and due diligence procedures  to guarantee that pension holders money is not used to support Israel’s violations of international law.

Oppose the anti-boycott bill

The bill would severely restrict the ability of scheme members of public sector pension schemes, like the LGPS, to ensure their deferred wages are invested in line with their values.

Template LGPS Letter

 Scheme member: lobby your pension committee chair

Use the template letter to write to the chair of your pension fund committee to ask them to address their fund’s investments in companies complicit in human rights abuses.

Template LGPS Letter

News

LAPFF and WYPF begin engagement with complicit companies

LAPFF and WYPF begin engagement with complicit companies

LAPFF and WYPF begin engagement with complicit companies Local Authority Pension Fund Forum begins “correspondence with companies cited by both the PSC and the UN as having human rights concerns through their operations in the Israeli settlements/Occupied Palestinian...

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Local Government Pension Scheme Members: Take Action!

Local Government Pension Scheme Members: Take Action!

Local Government Pension Scheme Members: Take Action!Our groundbreaking research has found Local Government Pension Scheme Funds invest over £3bn in companies complicit in Israel’s violations of international law, including business enterprises listed by the United...

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