Our project Peacemakers are passionate about creating peaceful schools and communities and have a proud history of delivering peace education. To read more about their work last year, their Annual Report and Accounts for 2024 is available on the Peacemakers Read More …
Restoring Relations is a small group of English Quakers, working together to help Friends better understand how to handle our differences lovingly. They have recently launched a new website to help share their work. If you are interested in finding Read More …
Quakers in Britain have called for rights to be restored after police raid on Westminster Meeting House, in a statement released on Tuesday: The police raid on Westminster Quaker meeting house last Thursday was a massively disproportionate response to the Read More …
Late on 28th February, we received news that 6 people, including 4 CEQ Friends, who took action at Telford International Centre Arms Fair on 1st Nov 2023, had been acquitted. Rajan Naidu, Louise Scrivens, Ralph Wallin and Fran Wilde, acting Read More …
This is a free 12 hour self-study course, Principles and Practices of Peace Education exploring how peace can be fostered in classrooms. It was produced in collaboration with Quakers in Britain. The course is hosted on the OUs learning platform Read More …
Quakerology is a new series of video interviews by Emma Roberts, and two Central England Friends, Rajan Naidu and James Bradbury have recently been included. The YouTube channel provides long interviews with Quakers about their faith and how their Quaker Read More …
Opportunities to volunteer with Restore (a project of Birmingham Churches Together); training from West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership Faith Alliance; and a consultation for the Faith & Belief forum about the future of Interfaith Week. Restore Could you befriend a Read More …
Our project Peacemakers were thrilled to hear last week that one of the schools they trained in Peer Mediation won an award from the National Mediation Awards. The National Mediation Awards 2024 are the nation’s groundbreaking mediation awards, covering mediation in Read More …
Jo Hindley reflects on a day of creative witness and protest at an arms fair in neighbouring Shropshire. An estimated 200 people from anti arms trade groups including Quakers gathered in fresh snow and bright sunshine early on Wednesday 20th Read More …
The SDSC Arms Fair is taking place in Telford in November. In witness against this event, Peace Pilgrimage, supported by our project Peace Hub, Stourbridge Quaker Meeting and several individual Friends, are walking a pilgrimage for peace. Pilgrims set off Read More …