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• Quakers warn new protest powers "dangerous and unnecessary"

  8 October 2025

  Quakers in Britain have warned that new government plans to tighten protest laws even further are "not only unnecessary but dangerous".

• A prayer for 7 October

  7 October 2025

  7 October 2025

• Quaker statement in response to Manchester synagogue attacks on Yom Kippur

  2 October 2025

  2 October 2025

• Police spend £3m on failed climate protest case

  1 October 2025

  A court has dismissed charges against 15 climate protesters, including four Quakers, accused of planning to "lock on" at the UK's largest power station, Drax, in August 2024.

• Quakers join global call for nuclear disarmament

  29 September 2025

  On International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Quakers in Britain joined more than 275 organisations in urging governments to take bold action towards disarmament.

• Quaker Week 2025: Love Your Neighbour - a call for compassion in a divided world

  23 September 2025

  As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour.

• UK recognition of Palestine: a first step to right a historic wrong

  21 September 2025

  Quakers in Britain welcomes the announcement by our government today to formally recognise the State of Palestine.

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