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Yearly Meeting documents

Updated 6 November 2026

Yearly Meeting documents

Being Quakers: inspired and transformed

Updated 1 October 2019

National Quaker Week is a time to celebrate Quaker work, faith and community. Across Britain, Quakers are telling their personal faith journeys to mark the Week which runs from Saturday 28 September to Sunday 6 October.

Being Quakers: inspired and transformed

Young Peacemakers share their hopes at Manchester’s first Peer Mediation Conference

Updated 16 July 2025

“It's helped me because when someone is not being nice and kind to me, instead of just snapping […] it's helped me to actually back away," Zak, Year 6 peer mediator.

Young Peacemakers share their hopes at Manchester’s first peer mediation conference

Call for public inquiry over new coal mine

Updated 11 February 2021

UPDATE: The county council is to suspend their decision and re-assess the permission it granted for the mine, in the light of concerns over climate change.As the UK prepares to host a crucial UN climate summit, the government is facing questions over its support for a new coal mine near Whitehaven in Cumbria. Quakers in Britain are among those urging ministers to think again.

Call for public inquiry over new coal mine

Quakers in Britain finances in good shape

Updated 4 February 2025

More was spent on Quaker work in 2022 than in 2021, and with 2023 looking like another strong year, Quakers in Britain will be able to maintain its momentum.

Quakers in Britain finances in good shape

Remembering for peace

Updated 9 December 2022

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 the guns fell silent and World War I ended. More than 100 years later, at 11.00am on 11 November, people across the nations will again stand silently. Pausing for two minutes to reflect.

Remembering for peace

Media coverage of Westminster Meeting House police raid

Updated 14 April 2025

The police raid on Westminster Quaker Meeting house on Thursday, 27 March 2025, has led to a huge outpouring of concern over disproportionate policing, and widespread media coverage.

Media coverage of Westminster Meeting House police raid

Swarthmore Lecture moves online

Updated 2 August 2020

The 2020 Swarthmore Lecture, part of the work of Woodbrooke and a key feature in the life of Quakers in Britain, will be delivered online on Saturday by social scientist, writer and broadcaster, Tom Shakespeare.

Swarthmore Lecture moves online

Global call for ban on nuclear weapons

Updated 30 July 2020

As the 75th anniversary approaches of atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Quakers in Britain are joining events to mark the devastation and to urge the government to work for a global ban on nuclear weapons.

Global call for ban on nuclear weapons

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