Dear Alison Griffin,
(Managing Director of Telford International Centre)
We are a group of citizens and organisations from across the West Midlands and beyond. We wrote to you last year to highlight our concerns about the use of the Telford International Centre by the Specialist Defence and Security Convention.
We are delighted that Telford International Centre will no longer be hosting the Specialist Defence and Security Convention arms fair (SDSC-UK) and can return to being a venue where people can experience life-affirming events, rather than having an association with killing, death and destruction.
Thank you for listening to our concerns opposing the destructive global arms trade and instead supporting peace.
Sincerely,
Coventry Deanery Justice & Peace Group
Extinction Rebellion Shrewsbury
Hay Resilience
Malvern Individuals for Peace
Methodist Peace Fellowship
Montgomeryshire PSC
Pax Christi England and Wales
Peace & Justice
Peace Hub
Peace Pilgrimage
Shrewsbury Environment Centre
Stoke Palestine Solidarity
Stroud Quakers
Telford and Wrekin Greens
Three Peaks for Palestine
West Midlands CND
Wolverhampton Local Area Meeting (Quakers)
Wolverhampton, Bilston and District TUC
Faith Justice
Fossil Free Shropshire
The letter was also signed by 132 individuals.