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QLCC 21-23 March 2025

Updated 24 September 2025

Quaker Life Central Committee (QLCC) held its annual in-person residential meeting at Swarthmoor Hall in Cumbria to discuss reparations work, sharing the Quaker message, the support Quakers need in the coming years, and the role of Swarthmoor Hall. The committee also remembered one of its members, Harry Albright, who died a week before this meeting.

QLCC 21-23 March 2025

Going forth in peace online events

Updated 21 May 2025

Building on this year's Yearly Meeting theme of Peace, Friends are invited to a series of online sessions exploring what comes next. The Faith in Action team will host the three sessions looking what is happening, how you can get involved and what support is available.

Going forth in peace online events

Free will writing

Updated 1 October 2025

Quakers in Britain have partnered with Octopus Legacy to enable supporters to have the opportunity to write a simple will for free in three ways – online, via the telephone or in-person. We hope you will consider leaving a gift to Quaker work but there is no obligation to do so.

Free will writing

Faiths across Southport open their doors in memory of stabbings victims

Updated 24 July 2025

Southport Quaker Meeting House will join with other places of worship next Friday to mark the first anniversary of last July's appalling knife attack.

Faiths across Southport open their doors in memory of stabbings victims

Radical Hearts, Open Minds

Updated 18 August 2025

Radical Hearts, Open Minds is a series of identical events being held across Britain in the autumn of 2025. They are part of the consultation process about support for Quaker Communities from 2026 to 2030.

Radical Hearts, Open Minds

Yearly Meeting 2025

Updated 9 October 2025

Yearly Meeting 2025

BDRC 8 and 10-12 October 2025

Updated 27 October 2025

The Book of Discipline Revision Committee met to discuss the latest progress in updating Quaker faith & practice ready for a new draft text to be presented to Yearly Meeting in 2027.

BDRC 8 and 10-12 October 2025

Quakers urge action to halt demolitions in occupied West Bank

Updated 26 August 2015

Quaker Peace & Social Witness and EAPPI UK and Ireland signed the following statement. Take action by writing to your MP asking them to raise these concerns with the government.

Quakers urge action to halt demolitions in occupied West Bank

Welcoming new MPs

Updated 9 June 2017

One of the newly elected MPs in the hung parliament will give a keynote address next month at Quakers' Yearly Meeting Gathering.

Welcoming new MPs

Storytelling in stitches

Updated 20 July 2017

The famous Quaker Tapestry is a modern stitched masterpiece in storytelling. Part of it is being exhibited in Friends House in London. It was last in the capital over 20 years ago.

Storytelling in stitches