Dear Friends,
Those of you who looked through our End of Year Round Up will know how much we achieved in 2024: reports; exhibitions; the F-35 interactive map; involvement with parliament and the courts; media appearances – in print and live; and, of course, our campaigning and protests.
2024 was, indeed, a hugely busy year.
But the talk now in the office is that 2025 is a DSEI year, and you will know how much effort goes into that. Everything we do throughout the year also must include helping organise a huge protest over several days at one of the biggest arms fairs in the world – and we predict this year’s DSEI, the marketplace for death and destruction, will be even bigger this year.
2025 looks like being even busier – and January has really kicked the year off
Over the last week or so, we were involved in supporting these two events:
On Sunday morning, 19th January, an interfaith group set out to Challenge the Silence, walking from L3 Harris on the Strand to BAE Systems and onto Parliament.
And, on Wednesday, local groups in Farnborough protested at the International Armoured Vehicles Arms Fair. This is the fair that was successfully chased out of Twickenham last year, and features a "who's who" of the world's worst arms companies, including BAE Systems, Leonardo, Thales among others. | 
