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Prayer Vigil at HSBC

A peaceful prayer vigil outside HSBC’s new UK headquarters (on Broad St) organised by Midlands Christian Actoin (MiChA). We will be praying for HSBC to divest from the arms trade.

The arms trade needs banks and financial institutions to invest in it, in order to keep exporting the machinery of war around the world.

HSBC have £102m of shares in Boeing and £180m of shares in BAE Systems, who are the 2nd and 3rd largest arms companies in the world, amongst many others (Source: Stop Arming Israel, 2017).

Join us in witnessing against this financial support for the arms trade, as HSBC opens it’s new UK headquarters in Birmingham.

Prayer Vigil at HSBC

A peaceful prayer vigil outside HSBC’s new UK headquarters (on Broad St) organised by Midlands Christian Actoin (MiChA). We will be praying for HSBC to divest from the arms trade.

The arms trade needs banks and financial institutions to invest in it, in order to keep exporting the machinery of war around the world.

HSBC have £102m of shares in Boeing and £180m of shares in BAE Systems, who are the 2nd and 3rd largest arms companies in the world, amongst many others (Source: Stop Arming Israel, 2017).

Join us in witnessing against this financial support for the arms trade, as HSBC opens it’s new UK headquarters in Birmingham.

Prayer Vigil t HSBC


A peaceful prayer vigil outside HSBC’s new UK headquarters (on Broad St) organised by Midlands Christian Actoin (MiChA). We will be praying for HSBC to divest from the arms trade.

The arms trade needs banks and financial institutions to invest in it, in order to keep exporting the machinery of war around the world.

HSBC have £102m of shares in Boeing and £180m of shares in BAE Systems, who are the 2nd and 3rd largest arms companies in the world, amongst many others (Source: Stop Arming Israel, 2017).

Join us in witnessing against this financial support for the arms trade, as HSBC opens it’s new UK headquarters in Birmingham.

Vigil at Heckler and Koch

We would like to see an end to the arms trade and the death and suffering it brings, so we’re starting at home with this company here in Nottingham.

Heckler & Koch is a German-based weapons company which operates in the UK under the name NSAF Ltd, right here in Nottingham (Easter Park, Lenton Lane).

It describes itself as a “world-wide leading company in small arms production” and has been supplying weapons across the globe for the past 60 years, including pistols, assault rifles, submachine guns and sniper rifles. It currently manufactures the British Army’s primary assault rifle – the SA80.

In the run up to and during the Arab Spring it applied for UK arms export licences to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Oman.

with Sr. Katrina Alton (CJSP)

MiChA banner outside Heckler and Koch

MiChA witness at small arms factory

On Wednesday 7th March, Midlands Christian Action held their first prayer vigil outside the premises of Heckler& Koch in Nottingham. Sr. Katrina Alton writes,

‘Set in the middle of Easter Park industrial park, sandwiched between a church and the university, Unit3 remains blank on the notice board. But as you can see from the high fences, razor wire and security cameras they are certainly there, and in the  business of producing assaults rifles and sub-machine guns to be exported to Bahrain, Qatar & UAE.
Witnessing at the entrance to the site at 5pm meant commuters on the tram could see our banner, and there were a number of pedestrians and cyclists using the pathway too.’

Heckler & Koch is a German-based weapons company which operates in the UK under the name NSAF Ltd.

It describes itself as a ‘world-wide leading company in small arms production’ and has been supplying weapons across the globe for the past 60 years, including pistols, assault rifles, submachine guns and sniper rifles. It currently manufactures the British Army’s primary assault rifle – the SA80.

In the run up to and during the Arab Spring it applied for UK arms export licences to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Oman.

Next MiCha Vigil : Wednesday 11th April 16.45, Meet at Gregory Street Tram Stop