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I'm a young Quaker...

Updated 23 January 2025

Information for Young Quakers including advice, training and upcoming events. Click on the links below to find out more.

Wheel Stop Trident

Updated 12 February 2020

Around 14 young people, most with a Quaker background, formed Wheel Stop Trident in early 2015. Since then, we've pedalled cheerfully from London to Reading, and from Trident-linked arms company offices to Parliament, calling for the government to scrap Trident and spend the £100 billion on services that ensure true security.

Wheel Stop Trident

Running a community carbon reduction course

Updated 26 February 2016

North Wales Quakers are supporting Friends and others to transition towards a lower-carbon lifestyle through the Footpaths to a Greener Future programme.

Community carbon reduction initiatives

Vigil against renewal of Trident

Updated 8 April 2016

Bury St Edmunds Quakers believe it to be a sin against our common humanity as well as an appalling use of money at a time when austerity measures threaten peoples' livelihoods. Inspired by three creative Friends, Bury Meeting carried out a silent vigil to protest against the possible replacement of the Trident nuclear missile system, which is to be decided on in 2016.

Bury Quakers hold silent vigil against renewal of Trident

Nonviolent change in Rwanda

Updated 22 November 2016

Bryn Higgs, East Africa Programme Manager, undertook a monitoring trip to Rwanda in October 2016. Quaker Peace & Social Witness supports local groups and trainers there to work on nonviolent social change. The work aims to expand and deepen the influence and ability of grassroots peace activists to change the core conditions that lead to violent conflict.

Nonviolent change in Rwanda

List of area meetings

Updated 27 October 2025

The full listings of area meetings are listed below with generic contact email addresses for each area meeting.

List of area meetings

Moses baskets for children

Updated 4 August 2017

Janis Leslie is involved with an organisation called Baby Basics. They provide essential items for mothers and families who struggle to provide these items for themselves. Here she talks about what's involved.

Moses baskets for children

Quakers join water protectors in Lancashire to stop fracking

Updated 14 September 2018

Lyndy Raine writes from Preston New Road, the frontline of fracking in the UK, to share her journey from concerned citizen to active campaigner.

Quakers join water protectors in Lancashire to stop fracking

Inspiring children with a love of the natural environment

Updated 12 February 2020

Quakers in Central England are supporting children from different faith backgrounds through the Small Footsteps sustainability programme.

Inspiring children with a love of the natural environment

Quakers transform meeting house into emergency shelter for rough sleepers

Updated 24 September 2018

When heavy snow hit Weston-super-Mare, Friends were ready to take immediate action for people experiencing homelessness.

Quakers transform meeting house into emergency shelter for rough sleepers