Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) is a Quaker group that supports and encourages ‘the active promotion of peace in all its height and breadth’. We hope you find what you are looking for, and more, on this website.
Featured pages
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Nuclear Ban info: the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
TPNW background information and news
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Updates and reports
View and download from this page recent Updates, Annual reports and Financial Statements
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Publicity, information & outreach
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About
Quakers from throughout the North of Britain, meeting and working together ‘to advise and encourage Friends in the North … and through them their fellow citizens, in the active promotion of peace in all its height and breadth.’ Read more here.
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Donate
All financial contributions – however great or small – make a real difference to our ability to continue providing such services as this web site and those activities described elsewhere.
NFPB Voices
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Taking stock, taking care and being ready
NFPB is currently arranging monthly opportunities for our members and others interested in our work to meet up online. At the most recent gathering, the strain of the continuing pandemic was acknowledged, with those working or volunteering in the area of mental health reporting significant challenges that people are facing. Alongside this, Friends who would … Read more
Latest News
News relating to our work is also published in an occasional newsletter and shared through our Facebook , Twitter and Instagram accounts.
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Welcoming the treaty – witnessing for peace
These past few days have seen a flurry of activity, to mark the entry into legal effect of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. NFPB members and Quakers around the country joined with others in creating visual messages of support, both on buildings and through digital media. Other activities have ranged from … Read more
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Nuclear weapons treaty: open letter to the government
With other UK partners of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, we have supported this letter to the Prime Minister, sent on 22 January as the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has come into legal force. To: Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, UK Prime Minister 10 Downing St London SW1A 2AA … Read more
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Spend on war no more
We recently contributed to a Twitterstorm – a series of tweets on the theme of UK military spending, sent out during a narrow time period and using the same hashtag, #UKDefundWar. Coordinated by the UK network of the Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS), it took place after the government announced a planned £24bn increase … Read more
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Nuclear weapons abolition breakthrough
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NFPB support for Christian CND Statement on the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
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The same but very different
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Our continuing work – a brief update
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NFPB Voices, WW2 reflections
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Statement regarding Coronavirus: 30th March 2020
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NFPB and the Covid-19 pandemic