Forthcoming events

Easy to print list of events coming up in the next twelve months.

Fri, 11/07/2025 - 00:00
Women in Black vigil
Brighton

Women in Black vigils take place at the War Memorial, Old Steine, Brighton.

War Memorial, Old Steine, Brighton
brightonwib@11qp.co.uk
This is a regular event
Sat, 12/07/2025 - 00:00
Women in Black Peace Vigil
Oxford

Oxford Women in Black hold a silent vigil for Peace and Justice every Saturday from 2pm to 3pm at the Martyrs Memorial, bottom of St Giles, Oxford.
Contact oxfordwib@gmail.com to go on our WhatsApp group for up to date information about forthcoming vigils.

This is a regular event
Sat, 12/07/2025 (All day)
Fourth annual 24-hour peace wave 2025
Worldwide

The Fourth Annual 24-Hour Peace Wave will take place on July 12, 2025. This global event is organized by the International Peace Bureau in collaboration with Stop the War Coalition (Philippines), Gensuikyo (Japan), and World BEYOND War.

The Peace Wave is a 24-hour global event featuring live peace actions streamed via Zoom. It moves around the world with the sun, highlighting peace initiatives in real time across continents. Each hour features local actions, including rallies, concerts, art creation, peace pole installations, blood donation drives, public demonstrations, and cultural performances.

In 2025, the Peace Wave will emphasize the global demand to abolish nuclear weapons and CND will be opening the Europe regions’s segment from 3pm (BST).

Date: July 12, 2025
Time: 00:00 to 24:00 UTC (24 hours)
Location: Online via Zoom and in communities worldwide

For programme details and to register to join the Zoom, here https://ipb.org/peace-wave-2025/

This is a regular event
Sat, 12/07/2025 - 15:00
Talking with Arms Dealers
London N11 1PN

Ahead of protests against the DSEI arms fair in London, PPU Council member Matt Harbage is running a free workshop on starting conversations with people attending the arms fair. Could the right conversation start to change someone's mind? PPU Council member Matt Harbage is offering some training on how to talk with arms dealers in advance of DSEI 2025.

Parish Hall, High Road, New Southgate
Peace Pledge Union
matthew.harbage@london.anglican.org
This is not a regular event
Sat, 12/07/2025 - 19:30
Imagining a far better future – but how do we get there?
Leytonstone E11 1HH

The Vi Gostling Memorial Lecture. Chair: Andy Littlechild.
We have a panel of representatives from political parties & groups with their sometimes overlapping but often vastly different philosophies & practices. Prepare to hear from, quiz or challenge activists: we’ve invited the Communist Party of Britain, the Green Party, the Labour Party (possibly with local MP Calvin Bailey), the LibDems, the London Anarchist Communist Group, the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Socialist Party, the Socialist Party of Great Britain, the Socialist Workers Party, Workers’ Liberty & the Workers Party of Britain.

7.30pm Buffet (please bring an item if you can: vegetarian or vegan only) . No entry before 7.30pm please (unless specified). 8.00pm Talk and discussion till about 10pm.
You can email to confirm the talk will be as shown
Open to all; no booking, just turn up
Email: roskane@btinternet.com

Free entry, Donations/Raffle/Voluntary Membership £5pa
St John’s Church Hall, High Road
News from Nowhere Club
This is not a regular event
Tue, 15/07/2025 (All day)
London CAAT meeting
Online

The London CAAT group meets monthly to discuss arms trade issues. Currently they are organising around the #StopArmingSaudi campaign.
For more information about the group, to request to be added to their group email list, or to confirm details of the next meeting, please email londoncaat@riseup.net. Third Tuesday of the month at 6.30pm, currently via Zoom

London CAAT
This is a regular event
Wed, 16/07/2025 - 00:00
Women in Black vigil
London

WiB - London meets every Wednesday, around the statue of Edith Cavell in St Martin’s Place 6-7. We are very happy to welcome new women to the vigils – even if they can only come once in a while.

Edith Cavell statue in St Martin’s Place
This is a regular event
Wed, 16/07/2025 - 18:30
Lewisham Divest Now’ – join the big debate!
Lewisham SE6 4RU

After countless rallies, marches, hours spent leafleting and knocking on doors, with over 3000 signatures collected and verified, activists have FORCED divestment onto Lewisham Council’s July agenda.

Now the people will have their say! Be part of the movement that cuts off the money tap to Israeli genocide. Join Lewisham and Greenwich CND and others for a rally outside the council meeting to say #StopArming Israel.

For any queries please contact 07447 915102 or email LewishamGreenwichCND@gmail.com

Lewisham Town Hall 1 Catford Road
This is not a regular event
Wed, 16/07/2025 - 18:30
No More Hiroshimas: The Human Cost of Nuclear War
London

Join CND and guest speaker Kyoko Gibson, second-generation Hibakusha, to discuss the human cost of nuclear war and how we build a nuclear-free future. With guest speakers Kyoko Gibson, second-generation Hibakusha; His Excellency Jeremiah Nyamane Mamabolo, South African High Commissioner to the UK; Jeremy Corbyn MP, Chair of Parliamentary CND; Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Vice-Chair of Parliamentary CND; and Jess Barnard, Labour NEC.
This is a ticketed event with limited spaces available – early booking is strongly advised.

Committee Room 11 Palace of Westminster
CND
For any queries please contact parliamentary@cnduk.org or phone the CND office on 020 7700 2393.
This is not a regular event
Fri, 18/07/2025 - 00:00
Women in Black vigil
Brighton

Women in Black vigils take place at the War Memorial, Old Steine, Brighton.

War Memorial, Old Steine, Brighton
brightonwib@11qp.co.uk
This is a regular event