Local council motions

Council motions are a crucial step in winning divestment campaigns at the local level. Any parish, city, district, town, borough and county council can vote to show their support for divesting pensions from fossil fuels.

We’ve compiled this list of successful, non-binding council motions below so you can see if your local authority has already voted in favour of divestment.

If you know of a motion that isn’t listed below, please get in touch with the details so we can add it to the list.

	Council	Corresponding pension fund	Nation	Date
1	Oxford City Council	Oxfordshire Pension Fund	England	September 2014
2	Bristol City Council	Avon Pension Fund	England	February 2015
3	Cambridge City Council	Cambridgeshire Pension Fund	England	October 2015
4	Kirklees Council	West Yorkshire Pension Fund	England	October 2015
5	Reading Council	Berkshire Pension Fund	England	October 2015
6	Norwich City Council	Norfolk Pension Fund	England	November 2015
7	Hastings Borough Council	East Sussex Pension Fund	England	April 2016
8	Stroud District Council	Gloucestershire Pension Fund	England	October 2016
9	Sheffield City Council	South Yorkshire Pension Fund	England	November 2016
10	Lewes Town Council	East Sussex Pension Fund	England	March 2017
11	Brighton & Hove City Council	East Sussex Pension Fund	England	April 2017
12	Birmingham City Council	West Midlands Pension Fund	England	July 2017
13	Frome Town Council	Somerset Pension Fund	England	December 2017
14	Derby City Council	Derbyshire Pension Fund	England	March 2018
15	Monmouthshire County Council	Torfaen Pension Fund	Wales	March 2018
16	Newry Mourne and Down District Council	NILGOSC	Northern Ireland	March 2019
17	Bolton Council	Greater Manchester Pension Fund	England	March 2019
18	West Dunbartonshire Council	Strathclyde Pension Fund	Scotland	June 2019
19	South Oxfordshire District Council	Oxfordshire Pension Fund	England	July 2019
20	Dudley Council	West Midlands Pension Fund	England	October 2019
21	Vale of the White Horse District Council	Oxfordshire Pension Fund	England	October 2019
22	Powys County Council	Powys Pension Fund	Wales	October 2019
23	Carmarthenshire County Council	Dyfed Pension Fund	Wales	October 2019
24	Chesterfield Borough Council	Derbyshire Pension Fund	England	July 2020
25	Shropshire Council	Shropshire Pension Fund	England	July 2020
26	Bolsover District Council	Derbyshire Pension Fund	England	February 2021
27	High Peak Borough Council	Derbyshire Pension Fund	England	February 2021
28	Glasgow City Council	Strathclyde Pension Fund	Scotland	April 2021
29	Calderdale Council	West Yorkshire Pension Fund	England	July 2021
30	Leeds City Council	West Yorkshire Pension Fund	England	September 2021
31	Kirklees Council*	West Yorkshire Pension Fund	England	September 2021
32	Luton Borough Council	Bedfordshire Pension Fund	England	November 2021
33	Bradford Council	West Yorkshire Pension Fund	England	December 2021
34	Bedford Borough Council	Bedfordshire Pension Fund	England	January 2022
35	Great Dunmow Town Council	Essex Pension Fund	England	January 2022
36	Mid Ulster District Council	NILGOSC	Northern Ireland	January 2022
37	Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council	NILGOSC	Northern Ireland	April 2022

* These council motions are re-affirming a previous motion in support of fossil fuel divestment.