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Quaker processes

Employment and volunteering

Updated 18 April 2024

Quaker Life supports Quaker communities in best practices when engaging employees and volunteers. We give advice and guidance and provide access to relevant sources of information.

Our history

Quakers and WWI

Updated 20 September 2023

Since declaring its commitment to peace in 1660, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) has opposed all wars. World War I was no different and many Quakers resisted the call to arms.

Quakers and World War I

Meeting for Sufferings

Papers and minutes

Updated 16 December 2024

This page contains papers for the next meeting. It also provides links to minutes and papers for recent meetings.

Meeting for Sufferings papers and minutes

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Policies and procedures

Updated 10 January 2024

These documents provide support and guidance for those working with children and young people in a Yearly Meeting led Quaker setting and may be useful for adapting for your own events.

policies-procedures

Climate & economic justice

Building a better economic system

Updated 13 December 2023

We work to create an economy that values people and the planet above profit. Alternatives to irresponsible capitalism are emerging all the time – and Quakers are bringing them into their local communities.

New economy

Our history

Quakers and same-sex marriage

Updated 20 September 2023

Quakers in Britain have been considering sexuality for more than 60 years. In 2009 we made the decision to campaign for the right to marry same-sex couples in Quaker meetings for worship.

Quakers and same-sex marriage

Our faith

Quakers and God

Updated 20 September 2023

Our understanding of God is shaped by personal experience; different people use words that they find helpful and meaningful. On this page a group of seven Quakers share what God means to them.

Quakers and God

Our stories

Reporting from the 2017 Quaker Activist Gathering

Updated 12 February 2020

Ruth Tod from Henley Quaker Meeting and the Quaker Peace & Social Witness Central Committee writes of her experiences at the 2017 Quaker Activist Gathering in London.

Reporting from the 2017 Quaker Activist Gathering

Our stories

Towards equality: a Quaker campaign for a Land Value Tax

Updated 2 September 2022

UPDATE: An information sheet Towards equality: the hidden value of property(PDF) is now available. There is inequality in land ownership and land is seen as a private resource rather than a collective one. Jocelyn Gaskell of Yealand Local Meeting is hoping to challenge this with a Land Value Tax campaign. She invites others to join her.

Towards equality: a Quaker campaign for a Land Value Tax