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• Concerns over safeguarding spark review

  11 February 2021

  Experienced Safeguarding consultants have thoroughly reviewed historic safeguarding folders held by Quakers in Britain and have concluded there are no high-risk cases needing further investigation.

• Call for public inquiry over new coal mine

  5 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.
  

• HS2 protest staged on Friends House roof

  3 February 2021

  This week, HS2 protesters used maintenance scaffolding to access the roof of Friends House and hang a banner.

  
  

• Fossil fuel finance: UK faith groups urge government to keep its word

  2 February 2021

  Quakers in Britain have joined 16 other representatives of faith bodies to call on the UK government to immediately ban the use of public money to fund fossil fuel projects overseas.

• Stansted 15 appeal upheld

  29 January 2021

  Today a group of nonviolent activists, known as the Stansted 15, have had their appeal upheld against being convicted under counter terrorism legislation.

• Nuclear weapons are illegal

  21 January 2021

  From Friday 22 January nuclear weapons are banned under international law. Quakers are joining an array of statements, witness and worship, to welcome this historic milestone.

• Quakers lobby Lords on Overseas Operations Bill

  20 January 2021

  Quakers in Britain and Quaker Concern for the Abolition of Torture (Q-CAT) have briefed Peers ahead of a debate on the Overseas Operations Bill.

  Quakers believe the Bill will have a significant, negative impact on key values of truth, justice and peace – in the UK and abroad.

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