The Britain Palestine Friendship and Twinning Network

الشبكة البريطانية الفلسطينية للصداقة والتوأمة

Welcome to The Britain Palestine Friendship and Twinning Network website. We are a membership body bringing together autonomous groups who share a common aim: to develop links with Palestinian partners to increase mutual understanding, solidarity and cooperation. The network was established in 2005 and promotes twinning and friendship between a range of different British and Palestinian communities and groups. 

We believe that by deepening friendship, understanding and connections between the people of the UK and Palestine through friendship and twinning links, we can change hearts and minds and raise awareness of the ongoing injustice experienced by the Palestinian people. 

We have a broad understanding of what friendship and twinning mean- we have member groups who are officially twinned but many others that are informally linked through friendship and other connections- we warmly welcome any group that shares our aims. You don’t have to have a direct link with a specific place- believing and acting in friendship with Palestine and its people is what matters. You can read all about what we do, how to set up a group, browse our resources, and find out more about Palestine. You can also use this site to find out about friendship and twinning during Covid-19, our 2023 Annual Conference, our existing groups, read more about the benefits of twinning and friendship, and get in touch with us. If you want to promote the network and friendship and twinning this is always good news to us - you can use our flyer and leaflet.

2024 Annual Conference

Please click here for information regarding BPFTN’s annual conference which will take place on April 20 2024. More details to follow soon.

Christmas message 2023
The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem and Bethlehem have issued a statement calling upon their congregations to forego any “unnecessarily festive” Christmas activities this year, to hold in their thoughts their brothers and sisters affected by the war, and to focus more on the spiritual meaning of Christmas, “with fervent prayers for a just and lasting peace for our beloved Holy Land”.

At this especially difficult time in Palestine, the Britain Palestine Friendship and Twinning Network sends their support, solidarity and friendship to all our member groups, friends and colleagues. Thank you for your continued work to build and sustain friendships in Palestine and Britain; we hope you have the chance for some restorative peace and quiet, with a time for reflection.

Friendship, twinning and Covid-19

As the world emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, our groups conitnue to work in friendship together. Solidarity is more important than ever. Palestinians already experience huge restrictions on their freedom and Covid-19 exacerbated this. In a pandemic and afterwards, friendship and twinning can’t stop. BPFTN has a new resource full of ways to keep friendship and hope alive if you’re not quite ready to get back to visits, and groups across the country are now doing lots of new and different things to keep friendship and hope alive remotely. Virtual and online meet ups are ongoing, connecting friends in Palestine and Britain, regardless of the restrictions caused by Covid-19, and the Occupation. Check out our resources and our Palestine page for things you can do to show your support and let us know what you’ve been up to to keep your friendships and connections with Palestine going at this time.

Children at the beach in Gaza, Palestine

“Twinning and friendship is a way of bringing the voices of Palestinians, to allow them to speak directly in their own words. It is an act of friendship and solidarity.”

—Liverpool Friends of Bil’in

“Friendship and twinning is one of the most practical forms of solidarity. It transforms solidarity into friendship and transcends beyond verbal support, reaching out for the other community with a sense of shared destiny”

-Ambassador Dr. Husam Zomlot, Head of Palestinian Mission to the UK

Read more about the benefits of friendship and twinning, and feel free to get in touch!


Photo: two girls play by the beach in Khan Younis, Gaza. The whole of Gaza remains under military blockade, and has done since 2007. In the West Bank, most people can’t leave to reach the sea, a matter of miles away.