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QCCIR 30 Jan-1 Feb 2026

Updated 19 March 2026

The Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations (QCCIR) met online over a weekend.

QCCIR 30 Jan-1 Feb 2026

MfS 7 March 2026

Updated 19 March 2026

Meeting for Sufferings has been the national meeting of representatives of area meetings and some other Quaker communities and committees, taking on some of the work of the yearly meeting in between Yearly Meeting sessions.

Meeting for Sufferings 7 March 2026

Yearly Meetings over four years ago

Updated 8 April 2026

Yearly Meetings over four years ago

Boating, baking, bird watching – and a hash brown crisis

Updated 29 April 2026

As young Quakers (aged 11-15) tonight finish their packing (mostly snacks) for tomorrow's YP@YM residential, it's been a bumper month for other CYP activities across the UK.

Boating, baking, bird watching – and a hash brown crisis.

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

8 things you may not know about the right to vote

Updated 6 February 2018

Today, 6 February 2018, marks 100 years since the Representation of the People Act was granted Royal Assent and became law. It was a landmark piece of legislation. For the first time, women were explicitly included in the franchise for national elections. Many Quakers were involved in long-standing universal suffrage movements including Anne Knight, Alice Clark, Emily Ford, Hilda Clark, Helen Sturge and Edith Pye.

8 things you may not know about the right to vote

5 ways to support women in immigration detention this International Women’s Day

Created 7 March 2018

Earlier this year I celebrated the centenary of women's right to vote in the UK. I remembered, though, that not all UK women had that right even after 1918. Worse, the state continues to ignore the human rights of many women in the UK today.

5 ways to support women in immigration detention this International Women’s Day

Peaceful prisons

Updated 27 June 2018

A lot has happened since I last wrote about my time as a peaceworker. Working with Leap Confronting Conflict has continued to be full of new experiences and learning.

Peaceful prisons

5 ways to make Quaker meeting houses work for the future

Updated 27 September 2018

I'm always a bit anxious when we spend time worrying about Quaker property. Early Quaker George Fox was disparaging about 'steeple houses'. In his radical vision, going to a physical church was not necessary to experience God. Really it's the community that makes up the church, not the premises it meets in.

5 ways to make Quaker meeting houses work for the future

5 things we can do to put Quaker values into Brexit

Updated 16 December 2019

What can members of a faith group committed to peace, equality, integrity and sustainability do to put those values into a post-Brexit Britain? Quite a lot, it turns out. Here are five things that Quakers and those who share Quaker values can do to shape politics in the run-up to the UK's withdrawal from the EU.

5 ways to put Quaker values into Brexit