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BDRC 29 March 2025

Updated 16 April 2025

The Book of Discipline Revision Committee met to discuss the latest progress in updating Quaker Faith & Practice ready for a new draft text to be presented to Yearly Meeting in 2027.

BDRC 29 March 2025

QLCC 21-23 March 2025

Updated 29 April 2025

Quaker Life Central Committee (QLCC) held its annual in-person residential meeting at Swarthmoor Hall in Cumbria to discuss reparations work, sharing the Quaker message, the support Quakers need in the coming years, and the role of Swarthmoor Hall. The committee also remembered one of its members, Harry Albright, who died a week before this meeting.

QLCC 21-23 March 2025

Going forth in peace online events

Updated 21 May 2025

Building on this year's Yearly Meeting theme of Peace, Friends are invited to a series of online sessions exploring what comes next. The Faith in Action team will host the three sessions looking what is happening, how you can get involved and what support is available.

Going forth in peace online events

Interim Scottish Parliamentary Engagement Officer

Updated 25 June 2025

Interim Scottish Parliamentary Engagement Officer

Young Quakers breathe life into their beliefs

Updated 5 April 2016

More than three hundred young Quakers have contributed to a book summing up how they see Quakerism. Called Living our beliefs, it is available from the Quaker Centre Bookshop and as an ebook at www.yqspace.org.uk/living-our-beliefs. Playlists, video clips and line drawings accompany inspirational quotations and short passages.

Young Quakers breathing life into their beliefs

Quakers save lives, not take lives

Updated 11 December 2022

This week Quakers are marking the anniversary of the devastation wrought on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by World War II nuclear bombs. One hundred years ago Quakers were on a different battlefield, among courageous conscientious objectors rescuing the dying and wounded at the Somme, one of the bloodiest battles in World War I.

Quakers save lives, not take lives

Inspired by faith

Updated 14 November 2016

World Quaker Day on Sunday 2 October brings together the global Quaker community – and falls in the ninth British Quaker Week. Quaker meetings around England, Scotland and Wales are opening their doors with a warm welcome, offering music and art, drama and discussion, worship and witness.

Inspired by faith

Nuclear weapons treaty talks make progress

Updated 1 April 2017

Negotiations at the United Nations which could lead to a global ban on nuclear weapons conclude today (Saturday 1 April). While the UK Government is staying away and the British media is – so far – taking little interest, Quaker Tim Wallis reports here his daily highlights.

Nuclear ban treaty talks begin

New call to ban fracking in Scotland

Updated 9 May 2017

Quakers in Britain are urging the Scottish Government to ban fracking and unconventional gas and oil extraction. In a response to the government's public consultation, Quakers are calling for bold steps to tackle climate change by supporting renewable, efficient energy instead.

New call to ban fracking in Scotland

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