Does your university invest in the arms trade?
Many UK universities and colleges invest in arms companies, often without the knowledge or approval of their students, staff and beneficiaries. The University Clean Investment Campaign aims to; alert students and staff to the investment decisions which are being made by the financial officers of their colleges and universities; give them the tools so that they can hold them to account; and help break the links between arms companies and higher education.
Since the campaign began in 2005 it has met with a great response from students and staff across the UK, with several universities either selling their arms company shares or taking real steps towards ethical investment. The 2007/08 campaign aims to build on these successes by helping people discover whether their university invests in arms companies and giving advice and ideas on how they can get their university to divest and implement an ethical investment policy.
Get Involved
This section contains various resources for starting and sustaining a campaign for clean investment. This includes:
- A step by step guide to an effective campaign for divestment
- Template letters to university financial officers to gain information about your university's investments in arms companies
- Information on using the 2000 Freedom of Information Act
- An ethical investment policy framework
- A case study on Manchester University's successful Clean Investment Campaign
- Downloadable flyers to raise awareness about your university's involvement with the arms trade
- Links to and contact details for relevant groups and organisations
Data and Information
This section contains general information on previous campaigns and relevant to campaigns now. This includes:
- Shareholdings for UK universities
- University Network News and Past Successes
- Information on arms companies
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)