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• Quakers respond to terrorism

  24 November 2015

  As Parliament prepares to debate next steps in Syria, Quakers in Britain have made this statement.

• Housing inequality

  17 November 2015

  Housing is a global issue and some of the solutions are on a scale where only governments can act. New legislation could be an opportunity to work on some of the complex problems at the heart of housing inequality.

• Churches speak out on benefit cuts

  4 November 2015

  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.

• 1915 a turning point in Quaker history

  2 November 2015

  New resources from Quakers in Britain draw parallels between Quaker work for peace in 1915 and today.

  The Testimony, is a fictional newspaper inspired by Quaker activities in World War I, while Remembering for Peace is a new assembly outline to encourage children to think about the impact of war and ways of remembering for peace.

• Telling stories of courageous Quakers in World War I

  26 October 2015

  The white feather diaries goes live on Monday 26 October. Published by Quakers in Britain, daily posts on White Feather Diaries website (website no longer available) feature five Quakers who bring alive their courage and the cost of following their conscience as the horror of World War I envelops their lives.

  Diarists tell the stories of conscientious objectors who said No to war.

• White poppies and remembrance

  19 October 2015

  In the run up to Remembrance Day Quakers, along with many others, will be wearing white poppies. Some choose to wear both red and white poppies.

• Quakers take action against military drones

  1 October 2015

  In national Quaker Week, Quakers in Britain are protesting against the use of military drones. Saying that all life is sacred, Quakers hold that drones devalue human life and undermine international law.

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