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Yearly Meeting 2023

Updated 6 March 2024

Yearly Meeting 2023

Clerks Update: September 2023

Updated 13 October 2023

Issue 7 of Clerks' Update in 2023 is now available. This is a key communication channel for local and area meeting clerks.

Clerks Update: September 2023

Quaker Week 2023: 'Simple. Radical. Spiritual.'

Updated 1 August 2023

Quaker Life now has new outreach resources available to order through our Quaker Week campaign for this year: 'Simple. Radical. Spiritual.'

Quaker Week 2023: 'Simple. Radical. Spiritual.'

Quaker Life Representative Council (QLRC) Autumn 2023

Updated 19 July 2023

Bookings open for Quaker Life Representative Council (QLRC) which will be held in-person at Milton Hill House, Abingdon (OX13 6AF), and as an online blended event.

Quaker Life Representative Council (QLRC) Autumn 2023

A youthful Yearly Meeting

Updated 1 March 2023

Children and young people are a vital part of Yearly Meeting. They gather to look at its themes in age-appropriate ways, build community, explore Quaker faith and practice, experience worship and prayerful decision-making, and of course have lots of fun in a safe space.

A youthful Yearly Meeting

Thinking of attending Yearly Meeting?

Updated 11 January 2023

Are you coming to Yearly Meeting for the first time? Or maybe you have been before and are looking for the essential details on how to attend. Either way, welcome! It's wonderful to see so many Friends.

Thinking of attending Yearly Meeting 2023?

6 actions you can take for Palestine and Israel

Updated 10 June 2021

We welcomed with deep relief the end to the recent round of bombing in Gaza and firing of rockets into Israel. But while the world's attention may have moved on, the violence and structural oppression of the military occupation of Palestine has not ended and the struggle for equal rights continues.

6 actions you can take for Palestine and Israel

UN climate talks: 6 ways for Quakers to secure our climate future

Updated 30 March 2021

As a faith community, Quakers have pledged to address the root causes of climate breakdown. To do this, we are called to act at every level: locally, nationally and internationally.

6 ways to secure our climate future

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

Reporting from the 2017 Quaker Activist Gathering

Updated 12 February 2020

Ruth Tod from Henley Quaker Meeting and the Quaker Peace & Social Witness Central Committee writes of her experiences at the 2017 Quaker Activist Gathering in London.

Reporting from the 2017 Quaker Activist Gathering