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• Spending review fails to deliver

  25 November 2020

  The government's spending review has failed to deliver on Quaker priorities.

• Time for Quakers to tackle racism

  20 November 2020

  Racism exists among Quakers in Britain and must be tackled at all levels, individually, in their committees and structures and in the church, say their Trustees whose proposals will be discussed next month.

• Pandemic prompts new ways of Quaker worship and witness

  20 November 2020

  Quakers in Britain are set to decide whether to create an online festival for their Yearly Meeting next year.

• Quakers' Yearly Meeting moves online

  15 November 2020

  More than a thousand Quakers successfully held their first Yearly Meeting online today, prevented from meeting face-to-face by the COVID-19 pandemic. Not since 1668 has anything – not even world wars – prevented Yearly Meeting, a time for Quakers to gather in stillness to listen to the promptings of love and truth.

• Quakers call for climate justice as global gathering launches year of action

  12 November 2020

  Quakers in Britain have joined more than 70 other organisations in the COP26 Coalition to launch “a year of climate mobilisation from the ground up".

• Scotland is first UK country to ban smacking

  10 November 2020

  Quakers in Britain welcome the ban on parents smacking their children which has become law in Scotland. This is the first nation in the UK to outlaw physical punishment of under-16s. Quakers value all moves to decrease violence in society.

• Overseas Operations Bill passes through Commons

  4 November 2020

  The controversial Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill has passed through the House of Commons. A judge-led review into the handling of allegations against troops will run in parallel to the bill.

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