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APC 20-22 June 2025

Updated 2 July 2025

The Agenda Planning Committee for Yearly Meeting from 2026 onwards had its first meeting and considered its vision for Yearly Meetings.

APC 20-22 June 2025

QCCIR 20-22 June 2025

Updated 2 July 2025

Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations met in Leeds, including time with Friends and invited speakers.

QCCIR

Conference & Hospitality Assistants

Updated 20 August 2025

Conference & Hospitality Assistants

Quakers urge action to halt demolitions in occupied West Bank

Updated 26 August 2015

Quaker Peace & Social Witness and EAPPI UK and Ireland signed the following statement. Take action by writing to your MP asking them to raise these concerns with the government.

Quakers urge action to halt demolitions in occupied West Bank

Welfare reform will hit the poorest hardest

Updated 23 October 2015

Quakers in Britain was one of 20 organisations who signed a letter in The Daily Telegraph today outlining our concerns on welfare reform. Parliament is currently considering the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, which proposes a raft of further cuts to our social security system.

Welfare reform will hit the poorest hardest

Settlers attack international human rights monitors

Updated 14 November 2016

International human rights monitors whose presence protects vulnerable schoolchildren – in Hebron, occupied Palestine – face verbal and physical attack by Israeli settlers.

Settlers attack international human rights monitors

Quakers press for housing justice

Updated 2 December 2016

Soaring house prices, welfare cuts and loss of social housing have sparked a housing crisis. For Quakers at Yearly Meeting it was a hot topic and now they are questioning peers who are beginning a line by line examination of The Housing and Planning Bill in the House of Lords. Quakers in Britain say this Bill is a missed opportunity for the government to reduce inequality in the housing system. Instead it will increase inequality between those who are home-owners and those who are not.

Quakers press for housing justice

Breaking the cycle of violence

Updated 9 December 2022

Beekeepers and market gardeners, university lecturers, teachers and men who left school aged twelve, doctors, printers and politicians, were conscientious objectors (COs) in World War I (WWI). Their courage – and the global plight of COs today – has inspired an art exhibition in London, set in a chamber resembling a WWI field tent made of bandages.

Breaking the cycle of violence

Building a movement for peace

Updated 6 September 2016

Quakers' historic efforts to build a more peaceful world take a new turn this month as six young people begin new work in a unique scheme to build movements, run by Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW).

Building the peace movement

Finding friends of faith

Updated 17 February 2020

Friends House, the central offices of Quakers in Britain, appears in a new film shot on location across the capital, showing London's temples, Islamic centres, gurdwaras, synagogues, meeting houses and churches, opening their doors with a warm welcome in this Inter Faith Week.

Creating interfaith bonds of friendship