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A positive message on immigration

Updated 15 January 2016

Upon returning to England from New Zealand I felt the anti-immigrant voices were becoming much more confident throughout the general election. I felt powerless to influence this. Then I thought about how I could counteract these messages and the idea of a banner came to me.

Positive message on immigration

Churches speak out on benefit cuts

Updated 17 February 2020

Benefit cuts to change behaviour are unpopular, ineffective and immoral, say Churches. Quakers in Britain, along with Church Action on Poverty, the Church of Scotland, the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church, the Scottish Episcopal Church, and the United Reformed Church are warning that the Welfare Reform and Work Bill marks a dangerous shift away from a core principle of the welfare state and will make poor people even poorer.

Facing power and privilege

Updated 27 May 2019

A 1,200 strong gathering of Quakers in London has shared their hopes and fears about the plight of the planet and how power and privilege prevent effective work for justice.

Facing power and privilege

Quakers worldwide leave X over harmful content

Updated 4 February 2025

Quakers in Britain are joining other Quaker bodies across the world in disengaging from the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, on 16 December.

Quakers worldwide leave X over harmful content

How we can help prevent tragedies like Grenfell

Updated 17 February 2020

"Action that aims merely to alleviate the worst effects of inequality is not enough. As we wrestle with the implications of our testimony to equality, Quakers feel called to act more radically to tackle the underlying causes. This calling requires spiritual struggle and real practical change." – Meeting for Sufferings, April 2014

How we can help prevent tragedies like Grenfell

At the crossroads of climate justice and migrant rights

Updated 13 February 2025

Across our Yearly Meeting, the issues of climate justice and migrant rights are live concerns. Although they are often carried forward by different groups of Friends, they are somehow held invisibly together within our Quaker meetings. But in our wider communities, efforts to tackle these two issues aren't often unified, and it means that climate campaigning can sometimes feed into unintended harm on migrant issues.

At the crossroads of climate justice and migrant rights