News and events

Latest news

• “Simple. Radical. Spiritual.” – Quakers take faith back to basics

  20 September 2023

  This Quaker Week, Quaker communities up and down the country are showcasing how their simple spirituality helps them work for radical change.

• Quakers in media stunt for Make Polluters Pay Action Day

  19 September 2023

  Climate and faith organisations including Quakers in Britain protested outside Parliament on Tuesday, calling on the government to tax oil and gas giants.

• Peace groups unite to oppose world’s biggest arms fair

  14 September 2023

  Quakers maintained a strong dissenting presence outside the world's biggest market for weapons as it emerged that the UK government had invited countries on its own watch list.

• Quakers in Britain appoints a new Finance Director

  14 September 2023

  Quakers in Britain has appointed a new Finance Director, Vipan Narang, who joins the organisation after four years at the Association of Anaesthetists, where he was chief operating officer.

• Swarthmore Lecture 2024 to focus on prisons and punishment

  12 September 2023

  Next year's Swarthmore Lecture, a key date in the Quaker diary, will be delivered by prison expert Ben Jarman.

• Quakers protest human cost of arms trade

  7 September 2023

  Quakers are protesting outside a huge arms fair in east London which is going ahead despite appalled opposition from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.

  UPDATE: Several Quakers were arrested on Thursday, 7 September, during Meeting for Worship at No Faith in War Day.

• ‘In perpetual purgatory’: Quakers fear for lives of offenders with indeterminate sentences

  6 September 2023

  The government should re-sentence all remaining IPP prisoners, Quakers say, as new figures show hundreds recalled to prison despite not being charged with a further offence.

View all news