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Programme

Updated 15 March 2024

Yearly Meeting Programme

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

Trustee and treasurer conference 2023

Updated 23 June 2023

Quaker Life is holding a conference for trustees and treasurers at Milton Keynes and online, 22–24 September.

Trustee and treasurer conference

Twenty years on: reflecting on 11 September attacks

Updated 11 September 2021

Twenty years ago a horrific set of terrorist attacks took place in the United States, killing and wounding thousands of people.

Twenty years on: reflecting on 11 September attacks

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

11 ways to support the arms fair protesters

Updated 25 September 2017

The Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) event, despite its sanitised title, is actually the world's largest arms fair. The recent week of action to stop it happening saw many inspiring acts of witness.

11 ways to support the arms fair protesters

After the Gathering: 11 ways to live out our Quaker faith in the world

Updated 17 February 2020

I left Yearly Meeting Gathering with a sense of hope for the future. It took me a while to identify this, given that the daily news discourages a feeling as impertinent as hope. This Yearly Meeting Gathering was the culmination of a three-year arc looking at living out Quaker faith in the world, and it felt like many seeds for change were sown. Which of these seeds will grow? Which will take root? Which will flourish for years to come?

11 ways to live out Quaker faith in the world

Remembrance: why it matters

Updated 11 December 2022

As we enter the time of year when Britain again bows its head on Remembrance Sunday, let us look at why it is important to remember and celebrate the alternative stories.

Remembrance: why it matters