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Interim Scottish Parliamentary Engagement Officer

Updated 25 June 2025

Interim Scottish Parliamentary Engagement Officer

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

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

Seeking the truth about Trident

Updated 22 April 2016

Quakers in Britain in association with Luath Press have published “The Truth about Trident: Disarming the Nuclear Argument". With more than 15,000 nuclear warheads stockpiled worldwide, Timmon Wallis explores the arguments for retaining Trident with a critical eye to get to the real truth.Timmon Wallis works for Quaker Peace and Social Witness and Christian CND.

Seeking the truth about Trident

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

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

Judicial review examines right to ethical investments (updated 22 June)

Updated 23 June 2017

Quakers in Britain are supporting a judicial review being brought today (Wednesday 14 June) before the UK courts against the government's controversial new guidance banning local councils from making ethical choices in their pensions investments.

Updated: Judicial review examines right to ethical investments

Quakers warn we are stealing the future

Updated 5 August 2017

Amid nations' increasing uncertainty and insecurity, Quakers in Britain say that inequality has become vividly apparent. More than a thousand Quakers meeting for their annual gathering, said, "We are distressed by the trashing of our planet, and angry at the greed, ruthlessness, lies and violence which blight the lives of so many."

Quakers warn we are stealing the future

Jocelyn Bell Burnell in conversation

Updated 26 March 2018

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is known to many as the scientist who discovered pulsars. She is less well known as a Quaker.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell in conversation

Riding for equality

Updated 3 August 2018

LATEST: Friday 3 August The Ride arrived in London. Three hundred miles across vale and cities, they carried their Declaration from Cumbria and handed it in to 10 Downing Street.

Riding for equality