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European and Middle Eastern Quakers uphold each other at a time of war

Updated 4 February 2025

Quakers from across Europe and the Middle East gathered in Birmingham this month to share worship and work done, and to build a loving community.

European and Middle Eastern Quakers uphold each other at a time of war

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Loving Earth textiles highlighting threats to natural world comes to Westminster

Updated 4 February 2025

A Quaker-led textile exhibition about the survival of the planet is on show to politicians in Portcullis House.

Loving Earth textiles highlighting threats to natural world comes to Westminster

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British and US Quakers hold silent worship outside one of world's biggest investors in coal

Updated 4 February 2025

Quakers on either side of the Atlantic held a public act of prayer outside Vanguard buildings today, 7 October, asking financial giant to abandon fossil fuels.

British and US Quakers worship outside Vanguard buildings, asking financial giant to abandon fossil fuels

Blog

Why supporting the Climate and Nature Bill matters

Updated 23 January 2025

For the past few months, the Quaker Support for Climate Action group has joined the Zero Hour campaign encouraging support for the Climate and Nature Bill (formerly the Climate Ecology and Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill). The leading to take this action comes from a deep and urgent sense that, if we don't take action now, it will be too late.

Why supporting the Climate and Nature Bill matters

Quaker communities news

Midlands Green Quakers network brings together those with environmental concerns for monthly learning and support

Updated 3 October 2024

Concern about the environment has moved Quakers in the Midlands to create a network to explore sustainability and climate justice together. They meet online each month to deepen their understanding, share ideas, ask questions and support each other spiritually and practically.

Midlands Green Quakers network brings together those with environmental concerns for monthly learning and support

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6 ways our new government could build a peaceful and sustainable world

Updated 25 July 2024

Now that the UK has a new government, many will be watching to see how Labour's campaign translates into reality. We'll be hoping, of course, that it will result in positive changes for two topics that perhaps were not as prominent in the election campaign as we would have liked: climate justice and peace.

6 ways our new government could build a peaceful and sustainable world

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Peace and the general election: where do the parties stand?

Updated 27 June 2024

Recently, I took advantage of a rare invitation to an event at the House of Commons to buttonhole the MP hosting it. The week before, I'd asked my colleagues if there was anything they'd like me to ask him. And so, amid the chink of wine glasses and the steady dispatch of canapés, I found myself enquiring of the honourable member, "What makes you feel safe?"

Peace and the general election: where do the parties stand?

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Reparations: addressing harm and restoring right relationships

Updated 30 May 2024

For Friends, can the issue of reparations become a spark, energising, and resourcing all the efforts towards the world we desperately want? Is that the hope that we got a glimmering of in Yearly Meeting 2022? Then, we acknowledged some bitter truths, some unwelcome facts, but I think that when we put our truths together in a space of love and grace, it can be a relief, it can be freeing, and it can propel us forward. This is because, between us, we know we can do something about it.

Reparations: addressing harm and restoring right relationships

Quaker life

Quakers and LGBTQ+ inclusion

Updated 18 April 2024

Quakers in Britain are an LGBTQ+ affirming faith group. We all have human gifts and friendship to offer and we believe that all can equally access the divine.

Quakers and LGBTQ+ inclusion

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And Still We Rise: building collective action in the face of multiple crises

Updated 21 March 2024

'And Still We Rise' brought together almost 1000 people and 100 speakers from 25 different countries around the world. It was the latest event in a long tradition of hosting movements for social justice at Friends House. A tradition of movement generosity (i.e. thinking about how those with space and resources can share what they have with movements to build a peaceful and sustainable world) which Quakers in Britain is committed to practising.

And Still We Rise: building collective action in the face of multiple crises