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Employment and volunteering

Updated 6 July 2026

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.

Engaging with the 2015 general election

Updated 8 January 2016

The words of the Quaker election guide had great resonance for us. In the months before the election we explored how we might raise awareness, stimulate debate, and educate ourselves and others about important issues.

Engaging with the 2015 general election

Taking action in Paris at COP21

Updated 19 January 2016

We're now facing a climate crisis. I felt it was important to go to Paris because I feared that the climate negotiations (or COP21) would not be sufficient to meet this crisis. I've been led to take action on climate change because it's an issue so inextricably linked to other things I care about, like challenging militarism and upholding refugee and asylum seeker rights.

Taking action in Paris at COP21

Quakers bring worship to protests against oil drilling in Sussex

Updated 9 November 2017

In Quaker Week 2017 Louise Williamson helped unite protesters and Quakers in worship outside the gates of a new oil extraction site.

Quakers bring worship to protests against oil drilling in Sussex

Quaker Bolivia Link

Updated 2 December 2024

The purpose of Quaker Bolivia Link (QBL) is to fund and oversee the implementation of small community­initiated projects. These aim to improve the quality of life of impoverished indigenous people in Bolivia through community empowerment and the promotion of sustainable livelihoods. The current geographical focus is on marginalised rural Aymara communities in the Department of La Paz. Projects are related to the supply of clean water and to food security. These projects are delivered by Fundación Quaker Bolivia Link, a Bolivian charity managed by local Quakers. There is a sister fundraising charity in the United States of America. A formal cooperation agreement establishes the roles and relationship of the 3 parts of QBL.

Quaker Bolivia Link

Sidcot School

Updated 2 December 2024

Sidcot School aims to be a pioneer and a world-class centre of excellence for inspirational education for children aged 3-18. This is as much about nurturing the spirit as it is about outstanding academic success. This is informed by the Quaker testimonies, which act as a touchstone and challenge to the whole school community, those with faith and those without. All are equally welcomed.

Sidcot School

Registration

Updated 30 July 2026

Registration information

Funerals, memorial meetings and dying

Updated 8 January 2026

Find out about Quaker funerals and other ways to celebrate the lives of those who have died in our communities.

Funerals

What's wrong with the Armed Forces Bill?

Updated 22 April 2021

The UK, out-of-step with the rest of NATO, the UN Security Council and Europe, recruits people at 16. The Armed Forces Bill is our best opportunity to raise the UK's minimum recruitment age to 18 in law, a longstanding Quaker concern.

What's wrong with the Armed Forces Bill?

3 things to expect from the Scottish Parliament that aren’t an independence referendum

Updated 19 May 2021

The sixth session of the Scottish Parliament has now begun. While a great deal of coverage of the election has focussed on the prospect of a second independence referendum, there are other issues we should expect to see on the political horizon.

3 things to expect from the Scottish parliament that aren’t an independence referendum