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Area meetings

Updated 19 March 2024

The full listings of area meetings are listed below with generic contact email addresses for each area meeting.

Area meetings

Programme

Updated 15 March 2024

Yearly Meeting Programme

Welcoming new MPs

Updated 9 June 2017

One of the newly elected MPs in the hung parliament will give a keynote address next month at Quakers' Yearly Meeting Gathering.

Welcoming new MPs

Communities of colour are over-policed and under-protected

Updated 5 June 2020

The Coronavirus Act gives police powers to detain anyone they think might be infectious. A group of human rights, racial equality, community, faith and health organisations – including Quakers – say the police powers granted to enforce lockdown are disproportionately impacting people of colour.

Communities of colour are over-policed and under-protected

Global call for ban on nuclear weapons

Updated 30 July 2020

As the 75th anniversary approaches of atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Quakers in Britain are joining events to mark the devastation and to urge the government to work for a global ban on nuclear weapons.

Global call for ban on nuclear weapons

9 voices the Department for Education would ban from schools

Updated 8 October 2020

Recent Department for Education guidance tells headteachers in England to ensure external organisations, speakers and resources do not take "extremist" stances. These include a stated desire to abolish capitalism and "a failure to condemn illegal activities done in support of their cause". The guidance also bans "victim narratives that are harmful to British society".

9 voices the Department for Education would ban from schools

Peaceful prisons

Updated 27 June 2018

A lot has happened since I last wrote about my time as a peaceworker. Working with Leap Confronting Conflict has continued to be full of new experiences and learning.

Peaceful prisons