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• Protect the right to boycott unethical companies, Quakers urge MPs

  21 June 2023

  Quakers have joined nearly 70 civil society organisations in calling on MPs to reject the government's controversial anti-boycott bill, tabled this week.

• Quakers discuss reparations and restorative justice with Jamaican Christians

  19 June 2023

  Jamaican church leaders visited Friends House in Euston this week to discuss reparations for the transatlantic slave trade with Quakers.

• Quakers ask Lords to block "back door" attempts to shut down protest

  13 June 2023

  Quakers have joined 48 other organisations in calling on peers to reject “extreme and chilling" government measures.

• Major UN Committee calls for end to UK military recruitment of children

  6 June 2023

  United Nations child rights experts have called on the UK to stop recruiting children into the armed forces.

• Quakers support Labour’s pledge to end new fossil fuel projects

  5 June 2023

  Quakers have joined 139 other organisations in writing to Keir Starmer to support Labour's world-leading pledge to end new oil and gas projects.

• Every school in Britain should have peer mediators, Quakers say

  31 May 2023

  Following widespread success, Quakers want every school in Britain to have a team of peer mediators ready and able to resolve conflict.

• Coalition of Quakers and others win major campaigning award

  25 May 2023

  Quakers in Britain are delighted to have won a major campaigning award alongside other organisations for their work as part of the Police Bill Alliance.

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