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, we are campaigning to ensure administering authorities guarantee that scheme members’ money is not used to support Israel’s war crimes and violations of international law.

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Fund Investments

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.

Get Involved

Member of the public: Write to your Councillors

Write to your elected local councillors to ask they take immediate action to ensure LGPS funds administered by their council are not enabling Israel’s war crimes.

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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.

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News

LAPFF and WYPF begin engagement with complicit companies

Oct 7, 2020

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...

Further research by PSC reveals LGPS funds invest a further £1.3bn in complicit companies

Jun 11, 2020

Further research by PSC reveals LGPS funds invest a further £1.3bn in complicit companiesFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Further research by Palestine Solidarity Campaign reveals LGPS funds invest a further £1.3bn in companies complicit in Israeli violations of international...

Local Government Pension Scheme Members: Take Action!

May 29, 2020

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...